I Remember, I Remember (Philip Larkin Poem)
Coming up England by a different line For once, early in the cold new year, We stopped, and, watching men ...
Poems about platform (30 Poems)
Dockery And Son (Philip Larkin Poem)
'Dockery was junior to you, Wasn't he?' said the Dean. 'His son's here now.' Death-suited, visitant, I nod. 'And do ...
To An Old Mate (Henry Lawson Poem)
Old Mate! In the gusty old weather, When our hopes and our troubles were new, In the years spent in ...
Name (Chris Jones Poem)
His name has been ghosted over the fence, leaving an alias, burn, prison clothes. I'm half the man, he says, ...
A Familiar Letter (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll ...
Complicit in Their Propaganda (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Sitting down with evil giving lies a stage complicit in their propaganda giving voice to their rage The opiate of ...
Deny Him a Stage (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Let the madman rant let him rave deny him a platform deny him the stage Allowing him to speak to ...
Breaking Free (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The lift of the breeze pushing against the leaf the water of the dew pulling at its edge The stem ...
Explaining the Word (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not for the few those who had studied explained to each one there all to understand the richness of God's ...
Speaking the Word (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not read, past hand to hand preached from the platform the word of God falling down on them the whole ...
A National Day of Prayer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Solomon in the Temple the people gathered coming before the Lord in a national day of prayer Climbing the platform ...
The Floor (Russell Edson Poem)
The floor is something we must fight against. Whilst seemingly mere platform for the human stance, it is that place ...
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Dilton Marsh Halt (John Betjeman Poem)
Was it worth keeping the Halt open, We thought as we looked at the sky Red through the spread of ...
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
A Grammarian’s Funeral (Robert Browning Poems)
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
Casabianca (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Love's the boy stood on the burning deck trying to recite "The boy stood on the burning deck." Love's the ...
My Philosophy of Life (John Ashbery Poem)
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, (Alexander Pope Poems)
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures: Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe ...
The Butter Factory (Les Murray Poems)
It was built of things that must not mix: paint, cream, and water, fire and dusty oil. You heard the ...
The Black Watch Memorial (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye Sons of Mars, it gives me great content To think there has been erected a handsome monument In memory ...
The Bonnie Lass o’ Ruily (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the village of Ruily there lived a bonnie lass With red, pouting lips which few lasses could surpass, ...
The Death of Prince Leopold (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! noble Prince Leopold, he is dead! Who often has his lustre shed: Especially by singing for the benefit of ...
The Death of the Rev. Dr. Wilson (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of January That the late Rev. Dr. Wilson's soul fled ...
Time Stands Still over Govandi Station (John Matthew Poems)
A kite flutters, On a high tension wire - Against a stark blue sky. Beggar and old mother huddle On ...
Eleventh Hour (David Lehman Poems)
The bloom was off the economic recovery. "I just want to know one thing," she said. What was that one ...
Ninth Inning (David Lehman Poems)
He woke up in New York City on Valentine's Day, Speeding. The body in the booth next to his was ...
CROW AND AUDEN (John Lindley Poems)
A misprint in a newspaper reported: 'Auden stepped from the train and was greeted by a small but enthusiastic crow.' ...
This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(Being a Chant of the American Soap-Box and the Russian Revolution.) O market square, O slattern place, Is glory in ...