The Empress Sang In Reply (Empress Iwanohime Poems)
In the first month of spring, in the twenty-second year of his reign, the Emperor spoke to the Empress saying, ...
Poems about sniffing (21 Poems)
The Flight Of The Immortals (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Close to the dunnest hour of night,Sniffing the odour of the brew,Their bat-wings oiled for water flight,The Devil and his ...
To A Certain Critic (George MacDonald Poems)
Such guests as you, sir, were not in my mindWhen I my homely dish with care designed;'Twas certain humble souls ...
equanimity (Rg Gregory Poem)
october stops the pretence that somehow summer should still be loitering around it walks through the garden hanging the spiders ...
The ‘Ole in the Ark (Marriott Edgar Poems)
One evening at dusk as Noah stood on his Ark, Putting green oil in starboard side lamp, His wife came ...
The Other Tiger (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
Manuelzinho (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
THIN VOLUMES (Liam Wilkinson Poems)
Then there's the man who comes in every Saturday to loiter in Romance. His face may be milk-white but in ...
A MEETING WITH THE PRINCESS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Just a family get-together in a terrace house in Bradford High tea with a few stuffy aunts I hadn't seen ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 5 (Barry Tebb Poems)
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
Faces. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
The Death King (Anne Sexton Poems)
I hired a carpenter to build my coffin and last night I lay in it, braced by a pillow, sniffing ...
The Earth (Anne Sexton Poems)
God loafs around heaven, without a shape but He would like to smoke His cigar or bite His fingernails and ...
The Earth Falls Down (Anne Sexton Poems)
If I could blame it all on the weather, the snow like the cadaver's table, the trees turned into knitting ...
While The Bannock Bakes (Robert William Service Poems)
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me; I've got to watch the bannock bake -- ...
The Old Huntsman (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I've never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece. 'Twas a bad ...
Letter In November (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Love, the world Suddenly turns, turns color. The streetlight Splits through the rat's tail Pods of the laburnum at nine ...
The Return (Ezra Pound Poems)
See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain ...
Walking the Dog (Howard Nemerov Poems)
Two universes mosey down the street Connected by love and a leash and nothing else. Mostly I look at lamplight ...
A Dog Has Died (Pablo Neruda Poems)
My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I'll join ...
Passing Out (Philip Levine Poems)
The doctor fingers my bruise. "Magnificent," he says, "black at the edges and purple cored." Seated, he spies for clues, ...