Pickthorn Manor (Amy Lowell Poem)
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
Poems about shifts (31 Poems)
The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
The Allies (Amy Lowell Poem)
August 14th, 1914 Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry of hoarse throats, it floats ...
To the True Romance (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
Moon In Virgo (James Lee Jobe Poem)
You are not beaten. The simple music rises up, children's voices in the air, sound floating out across the land ...
Love’s Strategems (Donald Justice Poems)
But these maneuverings to avoid The touching of hands, These shifts to keep the eyes employed On objects more or ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Docker (Seamus Heaney Poem)
There, in the corner, staring at his drink. The cap juts like a gantry's crossbeam, Cowling plated forehead and sledgehead ...
HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
Goalkeeper Joe (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Joe Dunn were a bobby for football He gave all his time to that sport, He played for the West ...
Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service (T. S. Eliot Poems)
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. The Jew of Malta. POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Of Being is a Bird (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Of Being is a Bird The likest to the Down An Easy Breeze do put afloat The General Heavens -- ...
A Solemn thing within the Soul (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Solemn thing within the Soul To feel itself get ripe -- And golden hang -- while farther up -- ...
The Task: Book II, The Time-Piece (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
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 ...
The Moose (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea ...
Womanhood (Catherine Anderson Poem)
She slides over the hot upholstery of her mother's car, this schoolgirl of fifteen who loves humming & swaying with ...
Inferno Canto02 (Dante Alighieri Poem)
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno toglieva li animai che sono in terra da le fatiche loro; e io ...
At Pleasure Bay (Robert Pinsky Poems)
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice. Here under the ...
Between Games (Vasko Popa Poems)
Nobody rests This one constantly shifts his eyes Hangs them on his head And whether he wants it or not ...
Johnny Boer (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Men fight all shapes and sizes as the racing horses run, And no man knows his courage till he stands ...
The Summary History of Sir William Wallace (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie, I'm told he went to the High School in Dundee, For to learn to read ...
Nano-Knowledge (Heather McHugh Poems)
There, a little right of Ursus Major, is the Milky Way: a man can point it out, the biggest billionfold ...
The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
June 6 (David Lehman Poems)
No two are identical though they begin from the same point in time the same point in the dream when ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Night Thoughts Over A Sick Child (Philip Levine Poems)
Numb, stiff, broken by no sleep, I keep night watch. Looking for signs to quiet fear, I creep closer to ...