Everything That Acts Is Actual (Denise Levertov Poem)
From the tawny light from the rainy nights from the imagination finding itself and more than itself alone and more ...
Poems about silences (31 Poems)
Covering Two Years (Weldon Kees Poem)
This nothingness that feeds upon itself: Pencils that turn to water in the hand, Parts of a sentence, hanging in ...
Colloquy (Weldon Kees Poem)
In the broken light, in owl weather, Webs on the lawn where the leaves end, I took the thin moon ...
The Rhyme of the Three Sealers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
Late Afternoon: The Onslaught Of Love (Anthony Hecht Poem)
For William and Emily Maxwell At this time of day One could hear the caulking irons sound Against the hulls ...
The Transparent Man (Anthony Hecht Poem)
I'm mighty glad to see you, Mrs. Curtis, And thank you very kindly for this visit-- Especially now when all ...
Book Ends (Tony Harrison Poem)
I Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you're ...
Perseus (Robert Hayden Poem)
Her sleeping head with its great gelid mass of serpents torpidly astir burned into the mirroring shield-- a scathing image ...
eight roundels (Rg Gregory Poem)
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
Houses chapter IX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
A mason came forth and said, "Speak to us of Houses." And he answered and said: Build of your imaginings ...
Beauty XXV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
And a poet said, "Speak to us of Beauty." Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her ...
Silences (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We're good at silences under the surface, without contact hiding in plain view never dealing with, addressing true hurt, real ...
Open Mic (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Can you hear me in the back? Let's see - A little about me Set the mood, a light laugh ...
Merops (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
What care I, so they stand the same,- Things of the heavenly mind,- How long the power to give them ...
Ash Wednesday (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
The Call (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Out of the nothingness of sleep, The slow dreams of Eternity, There was a thunder on the deep: I came, ...
The White Peacock (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 05: The Bitter Love-Song (Conrad Aiken Poem)
No, I shall not say why it is that I love you- Why do you ask me, save for vanity? ...
Daffy Duck In Hollywood (John Ashbery Poem)
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
Telling You All (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Telling you all would take too long. Besides, we read in the Bible how the good is harmful and how ...
The Thread of Life (Christina Rossetti Poems)
I The irresponsive silence of the land, The irresponsive sounding of the sea, Speak both one message of one sense ...
In Progress (Christina Rossetti Poems)
Ten years ago it seemed impossible That she should ever grow so calm as this, With self-remembrance in her warmest ...
In Salutation to the Eternal Peace (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
Men say the world is full of fear and hate, And all life's ripening harvest-fields await The restless sickle of ...
The Dead Master (John McCrae Poems)
Amid earth's vagrant noises, he caught the note sublime: To-day around him surges from the silences of Time A flood ...
Jonathan Swift Somers (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities, The ...
Infinite (Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
These solitary hills have always been dear to me. Seated here, this sweet hedge, which blocks the distant horizon opening ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
Russian Cathedral (Claude McKay Poems)
Bow down my soul in worship very low And in the holy silences be lost. Bow down before the marble ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
The Inheritance (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Since you did depart Out of my reach, my darling, Into the hidden, I see each shadow start With recognition, ...