The Waters of Babylon (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
'C'est l? le myst?re apr?s lequel soupirent toutes les ?mes exil?es, qui s'affligent sur les fleuves de Babylon en se ...
Poems about sleepily (21 Poems)
If I Were A Monk, And If Thou Wert A Nun (George MacDonald Poems)
If I were a monk, and thou wert a nun,Pacing it wearily, wearily,Twixt chapel and cell till day were done—Wearily, ...
In Praise Of Solid People (C S Lewis Poems)
Thank God that there are solid folkWho water flowers and roll the lawn,And sit and sew and talk and smoke,And ...
The Musmee (Edwin Arnold Poems)
The Musmee has brown-velvet eyes, Curtained with satin, sleepily; You wonder if those lids would rise The newest, strangest sight ...
The King’s Breakfast (A.A. Milne Poems)
The King's BreakfastThe King askedThe Queen, andThe Queen askedThe Dairymaid:"Could we have some butter forThe Royal slice of bread?"The Queen ...
The Song The Baby Sings (Esther Mary Clark Hill Poems)
The little song Virginia sings has such a happy ring! We always stop to listen when we hear the baby ...
Hand (Edouard Roditi Poems)
Clouds darken the plain.From all sides, the mountains of the horizon move forward; the plain shrinks, crumpled into valleys that ...
Cumuli (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
They seem the enfolding mountains of some fairer landThat lies beyond the world,With vales of purpling rose in hills eburnean ...
Twilight Song (Arthur Symons Poems)
Warder of silence, keep Watch on the ways of sleep; Twilight, bringer of night, End the day with delight. Out ...
Fire On The Hills (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The deer were bounding like blown leaves Under the smoke in front the roaring wave of the brush-fire; I thought ...
On the desert (Stephen Crane Poem)
On the desert A silence from the moon's deepest valley. Fire rays fall athwart the robes Of hooded men, squat ...
Improvisations: Light And Snow (Conrad Aiken Poem)
I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she ...
There was a Child went Forth. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became; And ...
Geraint And Enid (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
Eyes Fastened With Pins (Charles Simic Poems)
How much death works, No one knows what a long Day he puts in. The little Wife always alone Ironing ...
Morning-Land (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Old English songs, you bring to me A simple sweetness somewhat kin To birds that through the mystery Of earliest ...
Nature Study (Craig Raine Poems)
(for Rona, Jeremy, Sam & Grace) All the lizards are asleep-- perched pagodas with tiny triangular tiles, each milky lid ...
Saturday Night in the Parthenon (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
Tiny green birds skate over the surface of the room. A naked girl prepares a basin with steaming water, And ...
Two Campers In Cloud Country (Sylvia Plath Poems)
(Rock Lake, Canada) In this country there is neither measure nor balance To redress the dominance of rocks and woods, ...
The King’s Breakfast (A. A. Milne Poems)
The King's Breakfast The King asked The Queen, and The Queen asked The Dairymaid: "Could we have some butter for ...
The ABC (Spike Milligan Poems)
'Twas midnight in the schoolroom And every desk was shut When suddenly from the alphabet Was heard a loud "Tut-Tut!" ...