An Interview With Miles Standish (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I sat one evening in my room, In that sweet hour of twilightWhen blended thoughts, half light, half gloom, Throng through the ...
Poems about peels (20 Poems)
The Fable Of Midas (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Midas, we are in story told,Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold:He chipp'd his bread; the pieces roundGlitter'd like spangles ...
Death by Aesthetics (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover,dressed as a virgin, coming to keep the tryst.The patient was early; she is ...
‘GS’ [or the Fourth Cook] (Henry Lawson Poems)
He has notions of Australia from the tales that he's been told-Land of leggings and revolvers, land of savages and ...
Sunday Night in Santa Rosa (Dana Gioia Poems)
The carnival is over. The high tents,the palaces of light, are folded flatand trucked away. A three-time loser yanksthe Wheel ...
Nike (Judita Vaiciunaite Poems)
Lemon peels,a taste of cinnamon,wine from the Balkans, all now drained.And the morning just so clean, thatfree of anygod, human, ...
The Wynnes Of Wynhavod. Act I (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
PERSONS REPRESENTED. Sir Pierce Thorne, a wealthy brewer. Mr. Murdock, a banker. Mostyn Wynne, the dispossessed heir of Wynhavod. Norman, ...
An Anthem Of Earth (Francis Thompson Poems)
Proemion.Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav'st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, ...
Tam And The Leeches (David Rorie Poems)
I.Faith, there's a hantle queer complaintsTo cheenge puir sinners into saints,An' mony divers ways o' deein'That doctors hae a chance ...
The Midwinter Bath (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
I'm home plenty early, I reckon—It's too soon to start cookin' grub,So before I begin with my bakin'I'll take me ...
Her Colt (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
Other hosses takes an interest in a colt that's young and small.The way they act you'd think they'd never seen ...
what if a much of a which of a wind (E. E. Cummings Poems)
what if a much of a which of a windgives the truth to summer's lie;bloodies with dizzying leaves the sunand ...
The Garden (Dominic Frank Moraes Poems)
I -wake and find myself in love:And this one time I do not doubt.I only fear, and wander outTo hold ...
The Fruit Shop (Amy Lowell Poem)
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
Old Pictures In Florence (Robert Browning Poem)
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
The Englishman In Italy (Robert Browning Poem)
(PIANO DI SORRENTO.) Fortu, Frotu, my beloved one, Sit here by my side, On my knees put up both little ...
When Stretch’d on One’s Bed (Jane Austen Poems)
When stretch'd on one's bed With a fierce-throbbing head, Which preculdes alike thought or repose, How little one cares For ...
89. The Ordination (Robert Burns Poems)
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...
Codicil (Derek Walcott Poems)
Schizophrenic, wrenched by two styles, one a hack's hired prose, I earn me exile. I trudge this sickle, moonlit beach ...
Face Lift (Sylvia Plath Poems)
You bring me good news from the clinic, Whipping off your silk scarf, exhibiting the tight white Mummy-cloths, smiling: I'm ...