Festus – XIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Poems about progressed (8 Poems)
An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
Corruption (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Sure it was so. Man in those early daysWas not all stone and earth;He shined a little, and by those ...
The Strike Of The Fireworks (Carolyn Wells Poems)
'Twas the night before the Fourth of July, the people slept serene; The fireworks were stored in the old town ...
The Hoary Precedent (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr. Pericles, M.P., In four-sixty-nine B.C.,Outed Cimon at a general election; Premier Cimon, thuswise ex-ed, Was quite naturally vexed,And ...
The Lost Pilot (Edward Taylor Poems)
for my father, 1922-1944 Your face did not rot like the others--the co-pilot, for example, I saw him yesterday. His ...
The Lost Pilot (James Tate Poems)
for my father, 1922-1944 Your face did not rot like the others--the co-pilot, for example, I saw him yesterday. His ...
Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women (Anne Sexton Poems)
(from a song) Perhaps I was born kneeling, born coughing on the long winter, born expecting the kiss of mercy, ...