April 9, 1999 (for Ethelbert) (June Jordan Poems)
In Brooklyn when the floweringforsythia escaped the concrete patternsof tight winter daysI didn't think about longdistancesor F-117s in contrastto a ...
Poems about scrambling (20 Poems)
Daphne (George Meredith Poems)
Musing on the fate of Daphne,Many feelings urged my breast,For the God so keen desiring,And the Nymph so deep distrest.Never ...
Evensong (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
IIn the pale mauve twilight, streaked with orange, Exquisitely sweet,— She leaned upon her balcony and looked across the street; ...
What The Engine Says (Alexander Anderson Poems)
What does the mighty engine say, Rolling along Swift and strong,Slow or fast as his driver may,Hour by ...
The First Ode Of The First Book Of Horace Imitated. And Addressed To John Miller Esq. Of Batheaston (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Miller, whom fair Ierne bore To grace Britannia's happier shore, Whose Genius guides, whose counsel guards The labours of Bathonian ...
The Decision Of Fortune (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Fortune well-Pictur'd on a rolling Globe, With waving Locks, and thin transparent Robe, A Man beholding, to his Neighbor cry'd, ...
Ramon (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(REFUGIO MINE, NORTHERN MEXICO) Drunk and senseless in his place, Prone and sprawling on his face,More like brute ...
Last Sonnets At Paris (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
I Chins that might serve the new Jerusalem; Streets footsore; minute whisking milliners, Dubbed graceful, but at whom one's eye ...
The Hills Of Youth (Alfred Noyes Poems)
Once, on the far blue hills, Alone with the pine and the cloud, in those high still places; Alone ...
The Cubical Domes (David Gascoyne Poems)
Indeed indeed it is growing very sultryThe indian feather pots are scrambling out of the roomThe slow voice of the ...
Lines written near Otham Church, Kent (D A Poems)
The air is brisk, and the green lowland ringsWith tinkling waterfalls and bubbling springs,The clouds glance fleetly by, and, as ...
Cairney Burn (Carolina Oliphant Poems)
Air — "The Bog o' Gight."Oh, Cairney burn, sweet Cairney burn,Thou makest many a winding turn;How sweet thy murmurings to ...
Parody of Tennyson’sTo Edward Lear on His Travels in Greece (Edward Lear Poems)
Delirious Bulldogs; -- echoing callsMy daughter, -- green as summer grass; --The long supine Plebeian ass,The nasty crockery boring falls; ...
A Hermit Thrush (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
The Walrus And The Carpenter (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Tweedledee said to Alice, "You like poetry-" "Ye-es, pretty well-some poetry," Alice said doubtfully. "What shall I repeat to her," ...
Dream Song 41: If we sang in the wood (and Death is a German expert) (John Berryman Poem)
If we sang in the wood (and Death is a German expert) while snows flies, chill, after so frequent knew ...
Fra Lippo Lippi (Robert Browning Poem)
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
Rahel to Varnhagen (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
Mulga Bill’s Bicycle (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He turned away the good old horse that served him ...
The Hard Times In Elfland (Sidney Lanier Poems)
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...