Operations Calling! (David Bourne Poems)
'Clearing Black SectionPatrol Bass Rock,'Leaps heart; after shockAction comes stumbling;Snatch your helmet;Then run smoothly, to the grumblingOf a dozing Merlin ...
Poems about spike (21 Poems)
The Red Lacquer Music-Stand (Amy Lowell Poem)
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
The Bombardment (Amy Lowell Poem)
Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city. It stops a moment on the carved head of Saint John, ...
The Drover’s Sweetheart (Henry Lawson Poems)
An hour before the sun goes down Behind the ragged boughs, I go across the little run And bring the ...
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
Book Ends (Tony Harrison Poem)
I Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you're ...
Thistles (Ted Hughes Poem)
Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men Thistles spike the summer air And crackle open ...
Old and New (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They were quite a pair clash of cultures within these proud Quebecois each speaking a language I don't share with ...
Spires of the fireweed.. (Ian Emberson Poem)
Spires of the fireweed on the fretted sky - Tints of magenta on tranquility, Do you feel nurture for the ...
Bad Day At The Beauty Salon (Maggie Estep Poem)
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island (Robert Browning Poem)
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
Alfred Lord Tennyson – The Coming Of Arthur (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
The Inventory Of Goodbye (Anne Sexton Poems)
I have a pack of letters, I have a pack of memories. I could cut out the eyes of both. ...
The Cow-Juice Cure (Robert William Service Poems)
The clover was in blossom, an' the year was at the June, When Flap-jack Billy hit the town, likewise O'Flynn's ...
Montreal Maree (Robert William Service Poems)
You've heard of Belching Billy, likewise known as Windy Bill, As punk a chunk of Yukon scum as ever robbed ...
The Ballad Of Gum-Boot Ben (Robert William Service Poems)
He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim. He asked me for a grubstake, and the same ...
Prayers of Steel (Carl Sandburg Poems)
LAY me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old ...
By The Sea (Christina Rossetti Poems)
Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; ...
May 8 (David Lehman Poems)
700 francs will get you $109.91 on this muggy May afternoon which is good to know since I just found ...
Baseball and Writing (Marianne Moore Poems)
Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what ...
Scent of Irises (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
A faint, sickening scent of irises Persists all morning. Here in a jar on the table A fine proud spike ...