Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
Poems about scattered (51 Poems)
A Hymn To Christ At The Author’s Last Going Into Germany (John Donne Poems)
In what torn ship soever I embark, That ship shall be my emblem of thy Ark; What sea soever swallow ...
Elegy V: His Picture (John Donne Poem)
Here take my picture; though I bid farewell, Thine, in my heart, where my soul dwells, shall dwell. 'Tis like ...
Elegy XVIII: Love’s Progress (John Donne Poems)
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners Blow (John Donne Poems)
At the round earth's imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, ...
We met as Sparks — Diverging Flints (Emily Dickinson Poem)
We met as Sparks -- Diverging Flints Sent various -- scattered ways -- We parted as the Central Flint Were ...
The Wind took up the Northern Things (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Wind took up the Northern Things And piled them in the south -- Then gave the East unto the ...
Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day (Emily Dickinson Poems)
Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day That arise and set about Us -- Other Tragedy Perish in the Recitation ...
Jigsaw Puzzles and You (Anastasia Clark Poem)
There were long hyphens in our day- When no one spoke; no one exhaled As we contemplated the broken puzzles- ...
Pedestrian ambitions (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
My thoughts are like the boots randomly arrayed in the rack outside the window, some in pairs neatly stacked, comfortably ...
ARCADIAN WINTER (Willa Cather Poem)
WOE is me to tell it thee, Winter winds in Arcady! Scattered is thy flock and fled From the glades ...
The Wife of Flanders (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until to-day, A little hill of ...
A Song of Defeat (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
The line breaks and the guns go under, The lords and the lackeys ride the plain; I draw deep breaths ...
The Latest School (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
See the flying French depart Like the bees of Bonaparte, Swarming up with a most venomous vitality. Over Baden and ...
At Melville’s Tomb (Hart Crane Poems)
Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their ...
Linoz Isidoz (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star: Slain is Asar. O twinned with me in the womb of Night! ...
Linoz Isidoz (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star: Slain is Asar. O twinned with me in the womb of Night! ...
Four Riddles (Lewis Carroll Poem)
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
ASSIGNMENT (Bhaskar Roy Barman Poem)
Bhaskar Roy Barman So much obsessed with a piece of work devolved upon me and fed up with it, I ...
Why Washington Retreated (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
1775 Said Congress to George Washington: "To set this country free, You'll have to whip the Britishers And chase them ...
Says Mister Doojabs (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Well, eight months ago one clear cold day, I took a ramble up Broadway, And with my hands behind my ...
A Black Man Talks of Reaping (Arna Bontemps Poem)
I have sown beside all waters in my day. I planted deep, within my heart the fear that wind or ...
Home (Anne Bronte Poem)
How brightly glistening in the sun The woodland ivy plays! While yonder beeches from their barks Reflect his silver rays. ...
Awake, My Heart (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the ...
Hope (Emily Bronte Poem)
Hope was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as ...
Words For Departure (Louise Bogan Poem)
Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten. When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements, The window-sills were wet ...
The Quality of Courage (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
Winged Man (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
The General Public (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...