Festus – II (Philip James Bailey Poems)
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
Poems about pivot (21 Poems)
Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part I. (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
Max plac'd a ring on little Katie's hand,A silver ring that he had beaten outFrom that same sacred coin--first well-priz'd ...
The Fight Of The General Armstrong (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
Tell the story to your sonsOf the gallant days of yoreWhen the brig of seven gunsFought the fleet of seven ...
A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor’s Fight (Herman Melville Poems)
Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, More ponderous than nimble;For since grimed War here laid asideHis painted pomp, 'twould ...
To Sarath A. Ghosh (Patience Worth Poems)
(India)I shall wind a turban of silver cloth,And set upon its brow a circletOf jade and turquoise. Yea, I shall ...
God As Love (Patience Worth Poems)
And He, the God, is as man,Flesh, substance, else His symbol lies;And He knoweth not the trick!Thus is He less ...
Love (Patience Worth Poems)
I am an announcement of the great Urge.I am an enactor of its agonies and joys.I am an inheritant of ...
The Wicket Gate (Patience Worth Poems)
My heart is a wicket gate; hung at a garden 'twixt me and the dinning day it stands.Beyond is the ...
The Scene Behind The Carriage Window Panes (Paul Verlaine Poems)
The scene behind the carriage window-panesGoes flitting past in furious flight; whole plainsWith streams and harvest-fields and trees and blueAre ...
Little Son (Georgia Douglas Johnson Poems)
The very acme of my woe,The pivot of my pride,My consolation, and my hopeDeferred, but not denied.The substance of my ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet VII (Anonymous Asian Poems)
"My friend, why are the Great Gods in conference?(In my dream) Anu, Enlil, and Shamash held a council,and Anu spoke ...
The Feast Of Stephen (Anthony Hecht Poems)
I The coltish horseplay of the locker room, Moist with the steam of the tiled shower stalls, With shameless blends ...
The Old Pole Star (Edith Wharton Poems)
BEFORE the clepsydra had bound the daysMan tethered Change to his fixed star, and said:"The elder races, that long since ...
St. Wagner’s Eve (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
THE hop-shop is shut up: the night doth wear. Here, early, Collinson this evening fell "Into the gulfs of sleep"; ...
Train Ride (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
After rain, through afterglow, the unfolding fan of railway landscape sidled onthe pivot of a larger arc into the green ...
Kinky (Denise Duhamel Poem)
They decide to exchange heads. Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin over Ken's bulging neck socket. His wide ...
To Brooklyn Bridge (Hart Crane Poem)
How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of ...
Roosters (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
At four o'clock in the gun-metal blue dark we hear the first crow of the first cock just below the ...
Train Ride (John Wheelwright Poems)
For Horace Gregory After rain, through afterglow, the unfolding fan of railway landscape sidled onthe pivot of a larger arc ...
Ariel (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. God's lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of ...
Contusion (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Color floods to the spot, dull purple. The rest of the body is all washed-out, The color of pearl. In ...