Hop-O-My-Thumb (Clara Doty Bates Poems)
Once on a time there was a fagot-maker, And he had seven sons. Who could be aught but ...
Poems about shriveled (21 Poems)
Seven Twilights (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
I The ragged pilgrim, on the road to nowhere, Waits at the granite milestone. It grows dark. Willows lean by ...
The Passion Play (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
I. Where falls the shadow of the Kofel cross Athwart the Alpine snows, the rose of faith ...
Stronger Than Death (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
prologueWho shall tell the storyAs it was?Write it with the heart's blood?(Pale ink, alas!)Speak it with the soul's lips,Or be ...
The Legend Of St. Regimund. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
St. Regimund, e'er he became a saint,Was much imbued with vulgar earthly taint;E'er he renounced the honors of a KnightAnd ...
Love And Art (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
I. Eagle-heart, child-heart, bonnie lad o' dreams, Far away thy soul hears passion-throated Art Singing ...
Khamsin (Clinton Scollard Poems)
Oh, the wind from the desert blew in! — KhamsinThe wind from the desert blew in! It blew from the ...
Gardening (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
GARDENING is hardeningIn every way you view it;It makes a fellow hustle,And it strengthens every muscle;It knots up many a ...
Shut-Ins (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
We're gittin' so we need againTo see the sproutin' seed again.We've been shut up all winter longWithin our narrow rooms;We're ...
The Creed To Be. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Our thoughts are molding unmade spheres,And, like a blessing or a curse,They thunder down the formless years,And ring throughout the ...
Crowned (Amy Lowell Poem)
You came to me bearing bright roses, Red like the wine of your heart; You twisted them into a garland ...
Gioconda And Si-Ya-U (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
A Leaf Fell (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
a shriveled, curled leaf fluttered toward the ground as I stood, still, watching its path gliding, curling through the December ...
A Man In His Life (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
A man doesn't have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn't have seasons enough to have ...
The Star-Apple Kingdom (Derek Walcott Poems)
There were still shards of an ancient pastoral in those shires of the island where the cattle drank their pools ...
August (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Why should this Negro insolently stride Down the red noonday on such noiseless feet? Piled in his barrow, tawnier than ...
Bath (Carl Sandburg Poems)
A MAN saw the whole world as a grinning skull and cross-bones. The rose flesh of life shriveled from all ...
The Geranium (Theodore Roethke Poems)
When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail, She looked so limp and bedraggled, So foolish and trusting, ...
Transition (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Too long and quickly have I lived to vow The woe that stretches me shall never wane, Too often seen ...
Half-And-Half (Naomi Shihab Nye Poems)
You can't be, says a Palestinian Christian on the first feast day after Ramadan. So, half-and-half and half-and-half. He sells ...
Jennie M’Grew (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Not, where the stairway turns in the dark, A hooded figure, shriveled under a flowing cloak! Not yellow eyes in ...