The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Poems about patches (29 Poems)
The Little Garden (Amy Lowell Poem)
A little garden on a bleak hillside Where deep the heavy, dazzling mountain snow Lies far into the spring. The ...
The City Bushman (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
When Your Pants Begin to Go (Henry Lawson Poem)
When you wear a cloudy collar and a shirt that isn't white, And you cannot sleep for thinking how you'll ...
The Hunting Of Pau-Puk Keewis (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Full of wrath was Hiawatha When he came into the village, Found the people in confusion, Heard of all the ...
Late Afternoon: The Onslaught Of Love (Anthony Hecht Poem)
For William and Emily Maxwell At this time of day One could hear the caulking irons sound Against the hulls ...
Patches of Fire (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As if daubed by a cotton ball rich bright color or maybe a fan brush adding whitening to the sky ...
Gumdrop Maples (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like nothing other than gumdrops the rounded tops of the colorful maples adorned the side of the street on our ...
Sister’s cake (Eugene Field Poems)
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind, Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind; ...
A Hundred Collars (Robert Frost Poem)
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
A Fool For Evergreen (James A. Emanuel Poem)
A little bit of fool in me Hides behind my inmost tree And pops into the narrow path I walk ...
Crater Face (Denise Duhamel Poem)
is what we called her. The story was that her father had thrown Drano at her which was probably true, ...
Buying Stock (Denise Duhamel Poem)
"...The use of condoms offers substantial protection, but does not guarantee total protection and that while there is no evidence ...
Sex With A Famous Poet (Denise Duhamel Poem)
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I ...
A slash of Blue (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A slash of Blue -- A sweep of Gray -- Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky ...
A Crystalline Awakening (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
A crystalline awakening on the plateau, the crisp air as brittle as new celery snaps with expectancy. The cold clings ...
Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came (Robert Browning Poem)
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
Daffy Duck In Hollywood (John Ashbery Poem)
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
The Scholar Gypsy (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
328. Poem on Pastoral Poetry (Robert Burns Poems)
HAIL, Poesie! thou Nymph reserv'd! In chase o' thee, what crowds hae swerv'd Frae common sense, or sunk enerv'd 'Mang ...
Song (Matthew Prior Poems)
How old may Phyllis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages? To answer is no easy task; For ...
Phyllis’s Age (Matthew Prior Poems)
How old may Phyllis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages? To answer is no easy task; For ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
Investigating Flora (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
Ghoti (Heather McHugh Poems)
The gh comes from rough, the o from women's, and the ti from unmentionables--presto: there's the perfect English instance of ...
Mrs. Kessler (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
Bitterness (Philip Levine Poems)
Here in February, the fine dark branches of the almond begin to sprout tiny clusters of leaves, sticky to the ...
Magpiety (Philip Levine Poems)
You pull over to the shoulder of the two-lane road and sit for a moment wondering where you were going ...