The Two Old Bachelors (Edward Lear Poem)
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse. Said he who ...
Poems about precipice (30 Poems)
The Peace-Pipe (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of ...
The Discontent. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
I. HEre take no Care, take here no Care, my Muse, Nor ought of Art or Labour use: But let ...
Endymion: Book I (John Keats Poem)
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
The Bird With The Dark Plumes (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The bird with the dark plumes in my blood, That never for one moment however I patched my truces Consented ...
Birth-Dues (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely contemptible, the dangled Carrot the ass follows to market or ...
Vulture (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside Above the ocean. I saw through ...
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain Above the deep river-canyon. There was a little cataract ...
MOUNTAIN LIFE (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
IN summer dusk the valley lies With far-flung shadow veil; A cloud-sea laps the precipice Before the evening gale: The ...
THE HAPPY COUPLE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
AFTER these vernal rains That we so warmly sought, Dear wife, see how our plains With blessings sweet are fraught! ...
I Beg You (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The plea of a mother of others speaking joining together as if with one voice I beg you to reconsider ...
I sense the Salmon (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the rushing water standing on the precipice at the crest of the falls perched on the sunken rocks the ...
On the Brink (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
On the brink, the edge, the maw of the pit, the edge of the precipice, looking down into the abyss ...
In the Candle’s Flame (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
I sat transfixed, enthralled, entranced in the grip the allure, the beauty the magic in the flickering flame slowly consuming ...
Walking into Unknowns (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A precipice, a cliff, critical decision point, without a plan, a road map assurances, guarantee Needing to go beyond the ...
Evocative (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Words - Incendiary exacerbate Infant broken Tarnished valued Beautiful infinite Frozen rush Red green Precipice void Rough smooth Slippery taste ...
The Bible is an antique Volume — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Bible is an antique Volume -- Written by faded men At the suggestion of Holy Spectres -- Subjects -- ...
As One does Sickness over (Emily Dickinson Poem)
As One does Sickness over In convalescent Mind, His scrutiny of Chances By blessed Health obscured -- As One rewalks ...
The Aristocrat (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
The Devil is a gentleman and askes you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
After a Tempest (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
The day had been a day of wind and storm;-- The wind was laid, the storm was overpast,-- And stooping ...
Always For The First Time (Andre Breton Poem)
Always for the first time Hardly do I know you by sight You return at some hour of the night ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Imitation (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
I saw the Death, and she was seating By quiet entrance at my own home, I saw the doors were ...
Mary’s Song (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Sunday lamb cracks in its fat. The fat Sacrifices its opacity. . . . A window, holy gold. The ...
Mulga Bill’s Bicycle (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He turned away the good old horse that served him ...
Attitude To A Miss (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
That night was to decide if she and I were to be lovers. Under cover of darkness no one would ...
A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Soul O Who shall, from this Dungeon, raise A Soul inslav'd so many wayes? With bolts of Bones, that fetter'd ...
Captain Orlando Killion (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Oh, you young radicals and dreamers, You dauntless fledglings Who pass by my headstone, Mock not its record of my ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...