After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok (Amy Lowell Poem)
But why did I kill him? Why? Why? In the small, gilded room, near the stair? My ears rack and ...
Poems about pounding (31 Poems)
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 ...
Romance Son?mbulo (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on ...
One Train May Hide Another (Kenneth Koch Poem)
(sign at a railroad crossing in Kenya) In a poem, one line may hide another line, As at a crossing, ...
The Ballad of the “Bolivar” (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
A Letter (Anthony Hecht Poem)
I have been wondering What you are thinking about, and by now suppose It is certainly not me. But the ...
Circe’s Power (Louise Gluck Poems)
I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs; I make them Look like pigs. I'm sick of ...
Wet Stones (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Sheltered by the rock jetty the waves pounding on the shore turning the stones, wave after wave making the rough ...
Listening to My Breathing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Listening only to my breathing my throbbing heartbeat my headache growing, pounding as I ate of the bread he broke ...
Jungle Ponies (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Mythological creatures like the sphinx and the unicorn we saw jungle ponies in the clouds stampeding across the sky as ...
Trapped by Flames (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
House ablaze, hissing, dying Crimson anguish My daughter upstairs, alone Helpless Firetruck - red, loud, racing, screech HELP ME! MY ...
The Code (Robert Frost Poem)
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
THE LAST TIME EVER (Gerald England Poem)
1 am peering through blackness 2 am i feel your heart pounding 3 am your fingers running up my spine ...
Lepanto (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
Part 8 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
Dream Song 104: Welcome, grinned Henry, welcome, fifty-one! (John Berryman Poem)
Welcome, grinned Henry, welcome, fifty-one! I never cared for fifty, when nothing got done. The hospitals were fun in certain ...
Chemin De Fer (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Alone on the railroad track I walked with pounding heart. The ties were too close together or maybe too far ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 04: Nightmare (Conrad Aiken Poem)
'Draw three cards, and I will tell your future . . . Draw three cards, and lay them down, Rest ...
The Lake (Deborah Ager Poem)
The yard half a yard, half a lake blue as a corpse. The lake will tell things you long to ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Postcards (Margaret Atwood Poem)
I'm thinking about you. What else can I say? The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is ...
The House (Charles Bukowski Poems)
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to ...
Good Old Moon (Li Po Poems)
When I was a boy I called the moon a white plate of jade, sometimes it looked like a great ...
Night Shift (Sylvia Plath Poems)
It was not a heart, beating. That muted boom, that clangor Far off, not blood in the ears Drumming up ...
Common Cold (Ogden Nash Poems)
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.! You shall not sneer at me. Pick up your hat and stethoscope, Go wash ...
EIGHT EPITAPHS (Vlanes Poems)
I. You liked your scrolls ? - Here they are. The manuscript of your book ? - Here it is. ...
Cuba (Paul Muldoon Poems)
My eldest sister arrived home that morning In her white muslin evening dress. 'Who the hell do you think you ...
The Capture of Lucknow (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas near the Begum Kothie the battle began, Where innocent blood as plentiful as water ran; The Begum Kothie was ...
For A Thirteenth Birthday (Lisel Mueller Poems)
You have read War and Peace. Now here is Sister Carrie, not up to Tolstoy; still it will second the ...
Mist In The Valley (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
These hills, to hurt me more, That am hurt already enough,- Having left the sea behind, Having turned suddenly and ...