Daydreams for Ginsberg (Jack Kerouac Poems)
I lie on my back at midnighthearing the marvelous strange chimeof the clocks, and know it's mid-night and in that ...
Poems about sections (21 Poems)
Going to School (Karl Shapiro Poems)
What shall I teach in the vivid afternoonWith the sun warming the blackboard and a slipOf cloud catching my eye?Only ...
A Modern Apostle IV (Constance Naden Poems)
AT last they met, once, twice, and many times, Until she knew the secret of his being, That essence which ...
On The Pleasures Of College Life (George Moses Horton Poems)
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
The Kalevala – Rune XIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
LEMMINIKAINEN'S SECOND WOOING.Spake the ancient LemminkainenTo the hostess of Pohyola:"Give to me thy lovely daughter,Bring me now thy winsome maiden,Bring ...
Possum (C J Dennis Poems)
Jist 'ere it gripped me, on a sudden, like a red-'ot knife.I wus diggin' in the garden, talkin' pleasant to ...
Vigils (Arthur Rimbaud Poems)
I. It is a repose in the light, neither fever nor languor, on a bed or on a meadow. It ...
The Mysterious Naked Man (Alden Nowlan Poems)
A mysterious naked man has been reportedon Cranston Avenue. The police are performingthe usual ceremonies with coloured lights and sirens.Almost ...
Close To Greatness (Charles Bukowski Poems)
at one stage in my lifeI met a man who claimed to havevisited Pound at St. Elizabeth's.then I met a ...
Tortoise Shell (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
The Cross, the Cross Goes deeper in than we know, Deeper into life; Right into the marrow And through the ...
Two Kopjes (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Made Yeomanry towards End of Boer War) Only two African kopjes, Only the cart-tracks that wind Empty and open between ...
Snarleyow (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps Which is first among the women an' amazin' first ...
Frost Friendly (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh for a bill to steel the heart of the poet, or his neighbor at least A law to protect ...
His Shop (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
There was something about it the way he had things just so, from the start a level, freshly cut boards ...
People Call Me Tony (The Fatal Dive lament) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Anthony, Oh Anthony Why didn't you pass the test At the wheel Crash, "not exactly" Red stuff on the water ...
A Display Of Mackeral (Mark Doty Poem)
They lie in parallel rows, on ice, head to tail, each a foot of luminosity barred with black bands, which ...
Letter Home (Natasha Trethewey Poems)
--New Orleans, November 1910 Four weeks have passed since I left, and still I must write to you of no ...
LETTER FROM LEEDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Would 'any woman' find me difficult to live with? My tastes are simple: space for several thousand books, The smoke ...
A Mysterious Naked Man (Alden Nowlan Poems)
A mysterious naked man has been reported on Cranston Avenue. The police are performing the usual ceremonies with coloured lights ...
The Last Berkshire Eleven (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, in Afghanistan, Where the Berkshires were massacred to the last man; On the ...
Blood Oranges (Lisel Mueller Poems)
In 1936, a child in Hitler's Germany, what did I know about the war in Spain? Andalusia was a tango ...