The Doves (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I stood on the top of a sloping hillside; before me, a gold and silver seaof shifting colour, stretched the ...
Poems about persistently (14 Poems)
Sonnets On Miss Savage (Samuel Butler Poems)
iShe was too kind, wooed too persistently,Wrote moving letters to me day by day;The more she wrote, the more unmoved ...
An American Addresses Philomela (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
Procne, Philomela, and Itylus,Your names are liquid, your improbable taleIs recited in the classic numbers of the nightingale.Ah, but our ...
In Defense (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
You may say if you please, Johnny Bull, that our girlsAre crazy to marry your dukes and your earls;But I've ...
The Visit (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
endless corridorsthe convent's interior gardenworn stairsdoors, white wardsnumbing coldfetters the feet, the handspersistently hiddeneyes full of fearwith my last ounce ...
Piper Of The Past (Patience Worth Poems)
I sit beside the sweeping waters,Letting fancy free, and throughThe vast realms of Time comes to meA far-off cry, wailing ...
July (Boris Pasternak Poems)
A ghost is roaming through the building,And shadows in the attic browse;Persistently intent on mischiefA goblin roams about the house.He ...
The Swan Of Dijon (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
I was in Dijon when the war's wild blastWas at its loudest; when there was no soundFrom dawn to dawn, ...
God (Gamaliel Bradford Poems)
Day and night I wander widely through the wilderness of thought, Catching dainty things of fancy most reluctant to be ...
Scars on Paper (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch, she freed my breasts from the camp Empire dress. Now one of them's ...
Under The Waterfall (Thomas Hardy Poem)
'Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of ...
OCTOBER FORECAST (Gerald England Poem)
"Bright with sunny periods some cloud, occasional showers" says the local TV forecast. It has been persistently precipitating for more ...
Darius (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The poet Phernazis is composing the important part of his epic poem. How Darius, son of Hystaspes, assumed the kingdom ...
The Seven Of Pentacles (Marge Piercy Poems)
Under a sky the color of pea soup she is looking at her work growing away there actively, thickly like ...