The Broken Balance (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
Poems about persons (31 Poems)
Contemplation Of The Sword (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly ...
THE FOX AND CRANE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ONCE two persons uninvited Came to join my dinner table; For the nonce they lived united, Fox and crane yclept ...
Crossing Nation (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- ...
God’s Representatives (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Each one commissioned a royal nation a priesthood of believers sent to heal the nations God's representative to persons on ...
Filled with Divinity (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Equal to God, seated in glory God is One, in three persons the Father and the Son Descending to earth ...
Sterilizing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Source, Word and Holy Spirit Three things, dry, lifeless words; but Meaningful words, of faith trying to explain the wholeness ...
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Saadi (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Woman’s Constancy (John Donne Poems)
Now thou hast loved me one whole day, Tomorrow when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say? Wilt thou then antedate ...
One Crucifixion is recorded — only — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One Crucifixion is recorded -- only -- How many be Is not affirmed of Mathematics -- Or History -- One ...
March is the Month of Expectation. (Emily Dickinson Poem)
March is the Month of Expectation. The things we do not know -- The Persons of prognostication Are coming now ...
The murmuring of Bees, has ceased (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The murmuring of Bees, has ceased But murmuring of some Posterior, prophetic, Has simultaneous come. The lower metres of the ...
I had been hungry, all the Years — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I had been hungry, all the Years -- My Noon had Come -- to dine -- I trembling drew the ...
After great pain, a formal feeling comes (Emily Dickinson Poem)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -- The stiff Heart questions was ...
Courage is a motherless lamb (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For a small child crossing the pen alone was a courageous feat, occasionally, with a maniacal bleat, the wether would ...
Bitter sweet (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The events of September 11th 2001 remain bitter sweet; as well as 2973 innocents confirmed dead (with their 19 terrorist ...
Clemente’s Images (Robert Creeley Poems)
1) Sleeping birds, lead me, soft birds, be me inside this black room, back of the white moon. In the ...
Matt’s Manifesto (Jonathan Bohrn Poems)
The Renaissance men are aging now, having survived Industrialization's Original Sin and the Information Age flood; The need for specialization ...
A Dialogue between Old England and New (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
Contemplations (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Dream Song 67: I don’t operate often. When I do (John Berryman Poems)
I don't operate often. When I do, persons take note. Nurses look amazed. They pale. The patient is brought back ...
Dream Song 135: I heard said ‘Cats that walk by their wild lone’ (John Berryman Poems)
I heard said 'Cats that walk by their wild lone' but Henry had need of friends. They disappeared Shall I ...
Dream Song 77: Seedy Henry rose up shy (John Berryman Poem)
Seedy Henry rose up shy in de world & shaved & swung his barbells, duded Henry up and p.a.'d poor ...
Dream Song 16: Henry’s pelt was put on sundry walls (John Berryman Poems)
Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls where it did much resemble Henry and them persons was delighted. Especially his ...
Love Lies Sleeping (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Earliest morning, switching all the tracks that cross the sky from cinder star to star, coupling the ends of streets ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...