Japonica (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
An old dalewoman speaks:"JAPONICA! Ay, it makes a brave show,But none on 'em grow as they used to grow!It's goin' ...
Poems about pewter (21 Poems)
After The Rain [for W. D. Snodgrass] (Anthony Hecht Poems)
The barbed-wire fences rust As their cedar uprights blacken After a night of rain. Some early, innocent lust Gets me ...
Winter Nears (Boris Pasternak Poems)
Winter nears. Once morethe bear's secret retreatwill vanish under mud's floor,to a child's fretful grief. Huts will wake in the ...
Interlude (Amy Lowell Poems)
When I have baked white cakes And grated green almonds to spread on them; When I have picked the green ...
Spoken of Several Philosophers (George MacDonald Poems)
I pray you, all ye men who put your trustIn moulds and systems and well-tackled gear,Holding that Nature lives from ...
The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Dublinesque (Philip Larkin Poem)
Down stucco sidestreets, Where light is pewter And afternoon mist Brings lights on in shops Above race-guides and rosaries, A ...
NUREMBERG (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
In the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint ...
Dutch Interiors (Jane Kenyon Poem)
Christ has been done to death in the cold reaches of northern Europe a thousand thousand times. Suddenly bread and ...
Mollymook (Dale Harcombe Poem)
All week, in this rented house, sea spray and whispers of wind weave through the eucalypts, like a Sondheim melody. ...
Terence, This is Stupid Stuff (A. E. Housman Poem)
'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
Strong Beer (Robert Graves Poem)
"What do you think The bravest drink Under the sky?" "Strong beer," said I. "There's a place for everything, Everything, ...
Inferno Canto 01 (Dante Alighieri Poem)
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ch? la diritta via era smarrita . ...
The Barefoot Boy (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes; ...
Portrait Of An Old Woman On The College Tavern Wall (Anne Sexton Poems)
Oh down at the tavern the children are singing around their round table and around me still. Did you hear ...
Botany Bay Eclogues 03 – Humphrey And William (Robert Southey Poems)
(Time, Noon.) HUMPHREY: See'st thou not William that the scorching Sun By this time half his daily race has run? ...
The Ballad Of Salvation Bill (Robert William Service Poems)
'Twas in the bleary middle of the hard-boiled Arctic night, I was lonesome as a loon, so if you can, ...
North Country (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
North Country, filled with gesturing wood, With trees that fence, like archers' volleys, The flanks of hidden valleys Where nothing's ...
Poem Written At Morning (Wallace Stevens Poems)
A sunny day's complete Poussiniana Divide it from itself. It is this or that And it is not. By metaphor ...
Blackberrying (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries, Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly, A blackberry ...