Millenial (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
One thousand more of our best and brightest our nation's treasure, spent in the streets, in the dust of that ...
Poems about period (40 Poems)
Our Nation’s Best (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
They stand on guard once more in harm's way in hostile lands answering the nation's call on point in the ...
The Hum of the Fan (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
All is quiet in the house, girls asleep, slowing down the only sound my fingers clicking these words the purr ...
The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
Merlin II (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs, Balance-loving nature Made all things in pairs. To every foot its ...
Merlin (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
Celestial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
Under Siege (Mahmoud Darwish Poem)
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...
Story (Stephen Dunn Poem)
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
The Spider holds a Silver Ball (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Spider holds a Silver Ball In unperceived Hands -- And dancing softly to Himself His Yarn of Pearl -- ...
The One who could repeat the Summer day (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The One who could repeat the Summer day -- Were greater than itself -- though He Minutest of Mankind should ...
The Birds begun at Four o’clock — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
The Birds begun at Four o'clock -- Their period for Dawn -- A Music numerous as space -- But neighboring ...
Spring is the Period (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide, But during March and April None stir ...
Not all die early, dying young — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Not all die early, dying young -- Maturity of Fate Is consummated equally In Ages, or a Night -- A ...
No Other can reduce (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Other can reduce Our mortal Consequence Like the remembering it be nought A Period from hence But Contemplation for ...
My period had come for Prayer — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
My period had come for Prayer -- No other Art -- would do -- My Tactics missed a rudiment -- ...
He scanned it — staggered — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He scanned it -- staggered -- Dropped the Loop To Past or Period -- Caught helpless at a sense as ...
Shells from the Coast mistaking — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Shells from the Coast mistaking -- I cherished them for All -- Happening in After Ages To entertain a Pearl ...
Great Streets of silence led away (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Great Streets of silence led away To Neighborhoods of Pause -- Here was no Notice -- no Dissent No Universe ...
A Light exists in Spring (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period -- When March is scarcely here ...
On Love (Bliss Carman Poem)
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Nostalgia (Billy Collins Poem)
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
At The Other End Of The Telescope (George Bradley Poem)
the people are very small and shrink, dwarves on the way to netsuke hell bound for a flea circus in ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
Part 6 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...