Mrs. McNair (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Mrs. McNair Was tall and fair; Mrs. McNair was slim;She had flashing black eyes and raven hair;But a very remarkably modest air;And ...
Poems about persisted (20 Poems)
August (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
Winter Stars (Larry Levis Poems)
My father once broke a man's handOver the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man,Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill ...
Late March (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Saturday morning in late March.I was alone and took a long walk,though I also carried a bookof the Alone, which ...
Sidewalk Story (Alison Luterman Poems)
The afternoon had a flu-like quality, gray and threatening to burst into tears at any moment, but I held it ...
A Grandson in Hoticeberg (Margaret Danner Poems)
A grandson isnotthe wing-sprouting cherubthat I, as doting grandmotherhave persisted in seeing and showing.A grandson is a hot ice berg.that cannot retain or disdain,with ...
A Threat (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"No; Wide-a-Wake," persisted Sleep,"I'll not come near you till you keepAs quiet as a mouse;And if you stretch your eyelids ...
William And Mira (Christian Milne Poems)
A TALE. ON her lov'd infant, as it sleeping lies,Ah! little does the tender mother know,While fondly gazing with delighted ...
City Without A Name (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
1 Who will honor the city without a name If so many are dead and others pan gold Or sell ...
Information (David Ignatow Poems)
This tree has two million and seventy-five thousand leaves. Perhaps I missed a leaf or two but I do feel ...
Meditations Of A Negro’s Mind, III (Charles Frederick White Poems)
I wonder why the Negro should be hated;He has done no great wrong unto mankind:He was out of the same ...
An Arundel Tomb (Philip Larkin Poem)
Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed ...
Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same (Robert Frost Poems)
He would declare and could himself believe That the birds there in all the garden round From having heard the ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Jane and Eliza (Ann Taylor Poems)
There were two little girls, neither handsome nor plain; One's name was Eliza, the other's was Jane: They were both ...
Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard’s Tale (Edmund Spenser Poems)
By that he ended had his ghostly sermon, The fox was well induc'd to be a parson, And of the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Wittgenstein’s Ladder (David Lehman Poems)
"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands them eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he ...
Success (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain, The pathos of the stupid, stumbling throng. These I ignore to-day and ...