A Newyeeres gift to a Gentlewoman (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
If pure goodwill, not meaning ill, might boldly, might boldly, Presume to tell his minde:I wold not vse, in terms diffuse, ...
Poems about reciting (21 Poems)
Recitative (Harold Hart Crane Poems)
Regard the capture here, 0 Janus-faced,As double as the hands that twist this glass.Such eves at search or rest you ...
The Truant (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
'What have you there?' the great Panjandrum saidTo the Master of the Revels who had ledA bucking truant with a ...
Her Letter (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
I'm sitting alone by the fire, Dressed just as I came from the dance,In a robe even YOU would admire,-- ...
Song Of The Apprentices (Georg Weerth Poems)
At the time when the cherries blossomed, In Frankfurt we did stay. At the time when the cherries blossomed, In ...
Song (Dominic Frank Moraes Poems)
I sowed my wild oatsBefore I was twenty.Drunkards and turncoatsI knew in plenty.Most friends betrayed me.Each new affairFurther delayed me.I ...
Simulacra (Ezra Pound Poems)
Why does the horse-faced lady of just the unmentionable ageWalk down Longacre reciting Swinburne to herself, inaudibly?Why does the small ...
Clerihew – Dean Inge (Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems)
It maddened Dean IngeTo be asked not to sing,*And there was some savage back bitingWhen they tried to stop him ...
THE WHITE ISLAND:OR PLACE OF THE BLEST (Robert Herrick Poem)
In this world, the Isle of Dreams, While we sit by sorrow's streams, Tears and terrors are our themes, Reciting: ...
Free Verse (Robert Graves Poem)
I now delight In spite Of the might And the right Of classic tradition, In writing And reciting Straight ahead, ...
Psalm IV (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Now I'll record my secret vision, impossible sight of the face of God: It was no dream, I lay broad ...
Conform to his law (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Each of our hearts the treasure of God that we would change our ways our hearts to him conform to ...
Phantasmagoria CANTO II ( Hys Fyve Rules ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be ...
Japan (Billy Collins Poem)
Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating ...
Filthy Savior (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poem)
Look at this storm, the idiot, pouring its heart out here, of all places, an industrial suburb on a Sunday, ...
Sabbaths, W.I. (Derek Walcott Poems)
Those villages stricken with the melancholia of Sunday, in all of whose ocher streets one dog is sleeping those volcanoes ...
This Beautiful Black Marriage (Diane Wakoski Poems)
Photograph negative her black arm: a diving porpoise, sprawled across the ice-banked pillow. Head: a sheet of falling water. Her ...
The Princess (part 2) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...
The Old Armchair (Robert William Service Poems)
In all the pubs from Troon to Ayr Grandfather's father would repair With Bobby Burns, a drouthy pair, The glass ...
Have A Nice Day (Spike Milligan Poems)
'Help, help, ' said a man. 'I'm drowning.' 'Hang on, ' said a man from the shore. 'Help, help, ' ...
Any Night (Philip Levine Poems)
Look, the eucalyptus, the Atlas pine, the yellowing ash, all the trees are gone, and I was older than all ...