Fit The Second – The Bellman’s Speech (Lewis Carroll Poems)
The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies—Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!Such solemnity, too! One could ...
Poems about slowness (21 Poems)
The Sloth (C.J. Sage Poems)
Her back is an ecosystem,algaeic and wrappedbeneath a canopy's sun.Arms forever up and outabove her head-she isthis tall. No height,no ...
LXXXIV From: ‘Cien sonetos de amor’ (Pablo Neruda Poems)
One time more, my love, the net of light extinguisheswork, wheels, flames, boredoms and farewells,and we surrender the swaying wheat ...
Growing Hyacinths (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
HYACINTHS dormant in their peaty bed;For months no change, no progress to be seen;And then these small excrescences of green,Which ...
Farm Boy After Summer (Robert Francis Poems)
A seated statue of himself he seems.A bronze slowness becomes him. PatentlyThe page he contemplates he doesn't see.The lesson, the ...
My Sister (Patience Worth Poems)
I have bent down to Sorrow.I have found her kneeling beside me.I could not rebuke her.Her eyes were heavy and ...
The Prince’s Progress (Christina Georgina Rossetti Poems)
Till all sweet gums and juices flow, Till the blossom of blossoms blow, The long hours go and come and ...
A Story of the Sea-Shore (George MacDonald Poems)
TO THEM THAT MOURNLet your tears flow; let your sad sighs have scope;Only take heed they fan, they water Hope.A ...
Red Or White? (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
In a western city new-born from a withering fire, Fresh ...
Sadness (Donald Justice Poems)
1Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents,Why were you so sad on porches, whispering?What great melancholies were loosed among ...
The Idler (Alice Dunbar-Nelson Poems)
An idle lingerer on the wayside's road,He gathers up his work and yawns away;A little longer, ere the tiresome loadShall ...
You are disappointed (Boris Pasternak Poems)
You are disappointed? You thought that in peace weWould part to the sound of a requiem, a swan-song?You counted on ...
The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
Sadness (Donald Justice Poem)
1 Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents, Why were you so sad on porches, whispering? What great melancholies ...
The Clyster (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
Farm Boy After Summer (Robert Francis Poem)
A seated statue of himself he seems. A bronze slowness becomes him. Patently The page he contemplates he doesn't see. ...
The Human Face (Paul Eluard Poem)
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
The Props assist the House (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Props assist the House Until the House is built And then the Props withdraw And adequate, erect, The House ...
Fit the Second ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...