Critics Nightwatch (Gwen Harwood Poems)
Once more he tried, before he slept,to rule his ranks of words. They brokefrom his planned choir, lolled, slouched and ...
Poems about soured (21 Poems)
On A Ruined Farm Near The ‘His Master’s Voice Gramophone Factory’ (George Orwell Poems)
As I stand at the lichened gateWith warring worlds on either hand -To left the black and budless trees,The empty ...
Youth In Memory (George Meredith Poems)
Days, when the ball of our visionHad eagles that flew unabashed to sun;When the grasp on the bow was decision,And ...
Washing-Day (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
——— and their voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound. ———The Muses are turned gossips; ...
Old Town Types No. 16 – Mr Tank (C J Dennis Poems)
Twice one are two; twice two are four.I can still hear it floating thro' the old school door: Those childish ...
Fulfillment (Edward Rowland Sill Poems)
ALL the skies had gloomed in gray, Many a week, day after day. Nothing came the blank to fill, Nothing ...
Clerihew – Noel Coward (Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems)
Mr. Noel CowardWas disillusioned and souredBy the lukewarm reception of his comedyIntroducing a real dromedary**named Ethel(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
A Tale of Starvation (Amy Lowell Poem)
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
Triple Time (Philip Larkin Poem)
This empty street, this sky to blandness scoured, This air, a little indistinct with autumn Like a reflection, constitute the ...
Boaz Asleep (Victor Hugo Poem)
Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight made his pallet on the threshing floor where all day he had worked, and ...
thirteeners (Rg Gregory Poem)
18 if you want a revolution attack symbols not systems - the simple forms that (blithely) give the truth away ...
Parable Of The Dove (Louise Gluck Poem)
A dove lived in a village. When it opened its mouth sweetness came out, sound like a silver light around ...
The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
Water Babes (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We were water babes, born in the arms of a sparkling brook that patiently took us into its heart. At ...
The Last Unicorn (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The last unicorn was never free to chose another ending, the plaintive melody entrained with sweet orchestral strains describing it ...
Political nonsense (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I was saddened just to hear the bitter rancour in his voice, a sour hostility aloof of commonsense, and ranks ...
Aurora Leigh (excerpts) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
The Break Away (Anne Sexton Poems)
Your daisies have come on the day of my divorce: the courtroom a cement box, a gas chamber for the ...
Dyspeptic Clerk (Robert William Service Poems)
I think I'll buy a little field, Though scant am I of pelf, And hold the hope that it may ...
The Rains (Philip Levine Poems)
The river rises and the rains keep coming. My Papa says it can't flood for the water can run away ...