A Recollection (John Peale Bishop Poems)
Famously she descended, her red hairUnbound and bronzed by sea-reflections, caughtCrinkled with sea-pearls. The fine slender tautKnees that let down ...
Poems about quarries (21 Poems)
To Vittoria Colonna. (Sonnet V.) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Lady, how can it chance--yet this we seeIn long experience--that will longer lastA living image carved from quarries vastThan its ...
The Wynnes Of Wynhavod. Act V (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
Scene I.The great Hall of Wynhavod House. The walls hung with old portraits, arms, trophies of the chase, and a ...
The Burden of Nineveh (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
In our Museum galleriesTo-day I lingered o'er the prizeDead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes,-Her Art for ever in fresh wiseFrom ...
Corsica (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
The Thraldom (Abraham Cowley Poems)
I came, I saw, and was undone;Lightning did through my bones and marrow run; A pointed pain pierc'd ...
Inside And Outside (Allen Tate Poems)
INow twenty-four or maybe twenty-fiveWas the woman's age, and her white brow was sleek;Lips parted in surprise, the flawless cheek;The ...
Water (Robert Lowell Poem)
It was a Maine lobster town- each morning boatloads of hands pushed off for granite quarries on the islands, and ...
The Palace (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled -- I cleared me ground for ...
Banquet Night (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"ONCE in so often," King Solomon said, Watching his quarrymen drill the stone, "We will curb our garlic and wine ...
Mercian Hymns VII (Geoffrey Hill Poem)
Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools that lay unstirring. Eel-swarms. Coagulations of frogs: once, with branches and half-bricks, he battered ...
The Sinner (George Herbert Poem)
Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek What I have treasur'd in my memory! Since, if my soul ...
The Hunt (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The hunt begins at a languid pace belying hysteria building in place, biding its time to menace the peace in ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Temporary Poem Of My Time (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west, Latin writing, from west to east. Languages are like cats: ...
Welsh Landscape (R. S. Thomas Poems)
To live in Wales is to be conscious At dusk of the spilled blood That went into the making of ...
Been There Before (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
There came a stranger to Walgett town, To Walgett town when the sun was low, And he carried a thirst ...
First Anniversary (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
The Widening Spell Of Leaves (Larry Levis Poems)
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...