Man Overboard (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
YOUNG, the naked stoker who wentMad with the fires and leapt to the sea,Boyhood still in the voice that sentOne ...
Poems about phosphorescent (21 Poems)
The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady (George Meredith Poems)
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
The Colonel’s Story (Cale Young Rice Poems)
No, no, my friend; there is an agony Not to be exorcised out of the world By any ...
An Ode To Antares (Alan Seeger Poems)
At dusk, when lowlands where dark waters glide Robe in gray mist, and through the greening hills The hoot-owl calls ...
The Song Of The Dynamo (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
_I have been kissed by the Priestess of the Thin and Deadly Blood-- With the kiss that men ...
The Return Of The Cat (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Time-morningA half-point Nor'ard from the West,A bluish-tinted spot of light,Now deep below, ...
The Enemy (Dorothy Violet Wellesley Poems)
There is some delight in bombing an EnemyWhom all mankind must hate.There is some foresight in reading the Tarot cardThese ...
A Poor Christian Looks At The Ghetto (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Bees build around red liver, Ants build around black bone. It has begun: the tearing, the trampling on silks, It ...
The Lie (Antanas Skema Poems)
They ordered him to shoot a man.The gun shone with fresh oil.The doomed head shone with drops of sweat.He aimed ...
A Prayer for the Past: Now far from my old northern land, (George MacDonald Poems)
Now far from my old northern land,I live where gentle winters pass;Where green seas lave a wealthy strand,And unsown is ...
The Harlot Of The World (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
O Life, thou harlot who beguilest all!Beautiful in thy house, the golden world.Abidest thou, where Powers pinion-furledAnd flying Splendors follow ...
Cold-Blooded (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Man, the egregious egoist(In mystery the twig is bent)Imagines, by some mental twist,That he alone is sentientOf the intolerable loadThat ...
The Purse-Seine (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight They could not tell where ...
bone-fable (Rg Gregory Poem)
one morning the bone was there set in the centre of waste ground against the early morning sun the frost ...
Sleep Spaces (Robert Desnos Poem)
In the night there are of course the seven wonders of the world and the greatness tragedy and enchantment. Forests ...
Neither Snow (Billy Collins Poem)
When all of a sudden the city air filled with snow, the distinguishable flakes blowing sideways, looked like krill fleeing ...
Pentecost (Derek Walcott Poems)
Better a jungle in the head than rootless concrete. Better to stand bewildered by the fireflies' crooked street; winter lamps ...
Cold-Blooded Creatures (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Man, the egregious egoist (In mystery the twig is bent) Imagines, by some mental twist, That he alone is sentient ...
MY FRIEND’S LIGHT (Andrei Voznesensky Poems)
I'm waiting for my friend. The gate's unlocked. The banisters are lit so he can walk. I'm waiting for my ...
An Ode to Antares (Alan Seeger Poems)
At dusk, when lowlands where dark waters glide Robe in gray mist, and through the greening hills The hoot-owl calls ...
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934 (Anais Nin Poems)
"Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...