St. Peter and the Angel (Denise Levertov Poem)
Delivered out of raw continual pain, smell of darkness, groans of those others to whom he was chained-- unchained, and ...
Poems about sleepers (21 Poems)
The Tollund Man (Seamus Heaney Poem)
I Some day I will go to Aarhus To see his peat-brown head, The mild pods of his eye-lids, His ...
Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria (Langston Hughes Poem)
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The singing in god’s acre (Eugene Field Poems)
Out yonder in the moonlight, wherein God's Acre lies, Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lullabies. Their radiant ...
Under Siege (Mahmoud Darwish Poem)
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...
The Good-Morrow (John Donne Poem)
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then, But ...
The light was always you (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
In the beginning there was light, abundant light that truly lit the way, time was never lost in dodging flights ...
Dilton Marsh Halt (John Betjeman Poem)
Was it worth keeping the Halt open, We thought as we looked at the sky Red through the spread of ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
The Destruction Of Sennacherib (Lord Byron Poem)
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And ...
The Year (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IA STORM of white petals, Buds throwing open baby fists Into hands of broad flowers. IIRed roses running upward, Clambering ...
The Triumph of Life (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
Death, To The Dead For Evermore (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
DEATH, to the dead for evermore A King, a God, the last, the best of friends - Whene'er this mortal ...
Killers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM singing to you Soft as a man with a dead child speaks; Hard as a man in handcuffs, ...
Limited (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation. Hurtling across the prairie into ...
Pods (Carl Sandburg Poems)
PEA pods cling to stems. Neponset, the village, Clings to the Burlington railway main line. Terrible midnight limiteds roar through ...
Wilderness (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THERE is a wolf in me . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . a red tongue for raw meat . ...
The Minimal (Theodore Roethke Poems)
I study the lives on a leaf: the little Sleepers, numb nudgers in cold dimensions, Beetles in caves, newts, stone-deaf ...
Three Women (Sylvia Plath Poems)
A Poem for Three Voices Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about FIRST VOICE: I am slow as the world. ...
The Sleepers (Sylvia Plath Poems)
No map traces the street Where those two sleepers are. We have lost track of it. They lie as if ...
Strange Meeting (Wilfred Owen Poems)
It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which ...