For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen (Harold Hart Crane Poems)
"And so we may arrive by Talmud skillAnd profane Greek to raise the building upOf Helen's house against the Ismaelite,King ...
Poems about splayed (20 Poems)
The Tantanoola Tiger (Max Harris Poems)
There in the bracken was the ominous spoor mark,Huge, splayed, deadly, and quiet as breath,And all around lay bloodied and ...
Eyewash (Niall Montgomery Poems)
EYES always open eyesonions we were all found undereyes never in a hurry wait for meblink at the smash preserve ...
Motherhood (May Swenson Poems)
She sat on a shelf,her breasts two bellieson her poked-out belly,on which the navel lookedlike a sucked-in mouth-her knees bent ...
The Cameo Carver (Jewell Miller Poems)
Sequestered by a wall of sunbaked clay,His bowed head turned to catch the waning lightFrom one high shell he held ...
Front-Page Carnage (Raymond Queneau Poems)
I've walked my sorrowthrough the streets of ParisI kept it on a leashso the Parisians would laughpigsty cheese shopwindow display ...
Ode To The Confederate Dead (Allen Tate Poems)
Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield their names to the element,The wind whirs without recollection;In the riven troughs ...
The Mountain Cemetery (Edgar Bowers Poems)
With their harsh leaves old rhododendrons fillThe crevices in grave plots' broken stones.The bees renew the blossoms they destroy,While in ...
Almost Ready (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The bloom almost ready the petals yet to unfurl The crocus, cobalt, nascent up through the soil The leaves at ...
A Dying Bloom (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Nestled, sheltered against the warm brick the foundation of the church the dying bloom of the now lavender crocus Unfurled ...
Zipper Hoods (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Flat hoods sit splayed on our backs wool, buffalo plaid inside, pulled forward, catch hair before the snorkel coats the ...
Stuffed (Carol Ann Duffy Poem)
I put two yellow peepers in an owl. Wow. I fix the grin of Crocodile. Spiv. I sew the slither ...
Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
Marginalia (Billy Collins Poem)
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
Ireland With Emily (John Betjeman Poem)
Bells are booming down the bohreens, White the mist along the grass, Now the Julias, Maeves and Maureens Move between ...
A Jewish Cemetery In Germany (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery, a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by ...
LETTER FROM KIRKHEATON (Barry Tebb Poems)
I have no camera but imagination's tinted glass I cannot pass this crumbling dry stone wall Without a break to ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 1 (Barry Tebb Poems)
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
A New Poet (Linda Pastan Poems)
Finding a new poet is like finding a new wildflower out in the woods. You don't see its name in ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...