Degrees Of Gray In Philipsburg (Richard Hugo Poem)
You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was ...
Poems about prisoner (31 Poems)
Letter To My Wife (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
11-11-1933 Bursa Prison My one and only! Your last letter says: "My head is throbbing, my heart is stunned!" You ...
The Vine (Robert Herrick Poem)
I dreamed this mortal part of mine Was metamorphosed to a vine, Which, crawling one and every way, Enthralled my ...
Last Words To A Dumb Friend (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Pet was never mourned as you, Purrer of the spotless hue, Plumy tail, and wistful gaze While you humoured our ...
Crow’s Nerve Fails (Ted Hughes Poems)
Crow, feeling his brain slip, Finds his every feather the fossil of a murder. Who murdered all these? These living ...
RINALDO.* (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[This Cantata was written for Prince Frederick of Gotha, and set to music by Winter, the Prince singing the part ...
THE BEAUTEOUS FLOWER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
SONG OF THE IMPRISONED COUNT. COUNT. I KNOW a flower of beauty rare, Ah, how I hold it dear! To ...
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 ...
Vision X (Khalil Gibran Poem)
There in the middle of the field, by the side of a crystalline stream, I saw a bird-cage whose rods ...
Yesterday and Today XII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as ...
Song of Man XXV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
I was here from the moment of the Beginning, and here I am still. And I shall remain here until ...
Captive to Your Grace (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not in control turning to you instead away from the world willing to be led Captive to your grace a ...
A Fitting Sky (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A fitting sky this morning the story continuing not bright and sunny like yesterday The sky dark and foreboding clouds ...
A corrupt court (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the mockery of a trial a corrupt court convening in the dark of the night in secret and in ...
Seeing God (2) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
God, the prisoner standing in the dock accused, before the righteous quietly hearing their abuse The lies, false accusations in ...
In the Joy of Sharing His Story (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Each year, Advent and Christmas joy in the sharing of his story God, the Christ-child, love Emmanuel, come to earth ...
The delectable ballad of the waller lot (Eugene Field Poem)
Up yonder in Buena Park There is a famous spot, In legend and in history Yclept the Waller Lot. There ...
Abu midjan (Eugene Field Poem)
When Father Time swings round his scythe, Entomb me 'neath the bounteous vine, So that its juices, red and blithe, ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
A Stone Is Nobody’s (Russell Edson Poems)
A man ambushed a stone. Caught it. Made it a prisoner. Put it in a dark room and stood guard ...
If You Only Knew (Robert Desnos Poem)
Far from me and like the stars, the sea and all the trappings of poetic myth, Far from me but ...
Truly Great (William Henry Davies Poem)
My walls outside must have some flowers, My walls within must have some books; A house that's small; a garden ...
No Prisoner be — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Prisoner be -- Where Liberty -- Himself -- abide with Thee -- (Emily Dickinson)
Hatred of Sin (William Cowper Poem)
Holy Lord God! I love Thy truth, Nor dare Thy least commandment slight; Yet pierced by sin the serpent's tooth, ...
Snow Day (Billy Collins Poem)
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a ...
The Worlds in this World (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poem)
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep (Anne Bronte Poem)
A prisoner in a dungeon deep Sat musing silently; His head was rested on his hand, His elbow on his ...
Mutation (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
They talk of short-lived pleasure--be it so-- Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain Expires, and lets her weary prisoner ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
444. Song-A Fiddler in the North (Robert Burns Poem)
AMANG the trees, where humming bees, At buds and flowers were hinging, O, Auld Caledon drew out her drone, And ...