Prologue (Dylan Thomas Poems)
This day winding down nowAt God speeded summer's endIn the torrent salmon sun,In my seashaken houseOn a breakneck of rocksTangled ...
Poems about stabbing (21 Poems)
A Hymn (Donald Marquis Poems)
CLOTHED on with thunder and with steel And black against the dawn The whirling armies clash and reel. . . ...
On Being Asked to Write a School Hymn (Charles Causley Poems)
On a starless night and stillUnderneath a sleeping hillComes the cry of sheep and kineFrom the slaughter house to mine.Fearful ...
The Bayonet (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE great guns slay from a league away, the death- bolts fly unseen, And bellowing hill replies to hill, machine ...
Winter Warfare (Edgell Rickword Poems)
Colonel Cold strode up the Line(tabs of rime and spurs of ice);stiffened all that met his glare:horses, men and lice.Visited ...
Malmaison (Amy Lowell Poem)
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening (Amy Lowell Poem)
After a Print by George Cruikshank It was a gusty night, With the wind booming, and swooping, Looping round corners, ...
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
With Scindia to Delphi (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
To A Young Artist (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
It is good for strength not to be merciful To its own weakness, good for the deep urn to run ...
Autumn Love (Li Ching Chao Poem)
Search. Search. Seek. Seek. Cold. Cold. Clear. Clear. Sorrow. Sorrow. Pain. Pain. Hot flashes. Sudden chills. Stabbing pains. Slow agonies. ...
The house where I was born (04) (Yves Bonnefoy Poem)
Another time. It was still night. Water slid Silently on the black ground, And I knew that my only task ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Rain After a Vaudeville Show (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
Hypochondriac (Chris Tusa Poems)
Maybe it's Emphysema, a shiny black jewel of phlegm humming like a clump of bees in my chest. Perhaps a ...
Author’s Prologue (Dylan Thomas Poems)
This day winding down now At God speeded summer's end In the torrent salmon sun, In my seashaken house On ...
Good-Bye, Little Cabin (Robert William Service Poems)
O dear little cabin, I've loved you so long, And now I must bid you good-bye! I've filled you with ...
Muckers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
TWENTY men stand watching the muckers. Stabbing the sides of the ditch Where clay gleams yellow, Driving the blades of ...
The Lie (Sir Walter Raleigh Poems)
Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand; Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy ...
Acknowledgment. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. O Age that half believ'st thou half believ'st, Half doubt'st the substance of thine own half doubt, And, half ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...