Book I – Part 04 – Nothing Exists Per Se Except Atoms And The Void (Lucretius Poems)
But, now again to weave the tale begun,All nature, then, as self-sustained, consistsOf twain of things: of bodies and of ...
Poems about remainder (21 Poems)
The Gargoyle And The Griffin (Laura Elizabeth Richards Poems)
Once a Gargoyle and a GriffinThought they'd go and take their tiffinWith the eminent Confucius, just outside the temple wall;So ...
Editing (Karl Shapiro Poems)
Next to my office where I edit poems ("Can poems be edited?") there is the Chicago Models club. All day ...
Numbers (Mary Cornish Poems)
I like the generosity of numbers.The way, for example,they are willing to countanything or anyone:two pickles, one door to the ...
The Dance To Death. Act V (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT V.SCENE I. A Room in Susskind's House. LIEBHAID, CLAIRE, REUBEN.LIEBHAID.The air hangs sultry as in mid-July.Look forth, Claire; moves ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
OSMOTAR THE BRIDE-ADVISERNow the bride must be instructed,Who will teach the Maid of Beauty,Who instruct the Rainbow-daughter?Osmotar, the wisdom-maiden,Kalew's fair ...
A Lost Eden (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
You, dear, have heard me vaunt a memory The which by trodden paths will ...
The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady (George Meredith Poems)
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
I Can’t Stay In The Same Room With That Woman For Five Minutes (Charles Bukowski Poems)
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman's overalls on. I ...
Oh! That I Had In The Wilderness, A Lodging-Place Of Way-Faring Men (Charlotte Eliza Dixon Poems)
OH ! build me a hut, where that blue-streaming river Winds placidly through the green valleys of CRAY ;Where high ...
The Bellaires (Ezra Pound Poems)
The good BellairesDo not understand the conduct of this world's affairs.In fact they understood them so badlyThat they have had ...
THREE ODES TO MY FRIEND. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
Upon My Dear and Loving Husband his Going into England Jan. 16 (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
O thou Most High who rulest all And hear'st the prayers of thine, O hearken, Lord, unto my suit And ...
Cristina (Robert Browning Poem)
I. She should never have looked at me If she meant I should not love her! There are plenty ... ...
Andrea del Sarto (Robert Browning Poem)
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
Any Wife To Any Husband (Robert Browning Poem)
I My love, this is the bitterest, that thou Who art all truth and who dost love me now As ...
States! (Walt Whitman Poems)
STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? ...
Over the Carnage. (Walt Whitman Poems)
OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten'd-Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love ...
One Hour to Madness and Joy. (Walt Whitman Poems)
ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not! (What is this that frees me so in ...
The Errand (Anne Sexton Poems)
I've been going right on, page by page, since we last kissed, two long dolls in a cage, two hunger-mongers ...
A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C. (Andrew Marvell Poems)
That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the ...