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, ...
Poems about stalls (21 Poems)
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” (Robert Lowell Poem)
"It is the future generation that presses into being by means of these exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ...
In Memory Of My Mother (Patrick Kavanagh Poem)
I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see You walking down ...
Tommy (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no ...
Desesperanto (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
After Joseph Roth Parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi. Montaigne, De L'amitië The dream's forfeit was a night ...
he and the hilltown (Rg Gregory Poem)
when they look into his mind they find a hill town somewhat surprised they go off to their learned books ...
Those cattle smaller than a Bee (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Those cattle smaller than a Bee That herd upon the eye -- Whose tillage is the passing Crumb -- Those ...
The Forge (Michael Burch Poem)
To at last be indestructible, a poem must first glow, almost flammable, upon a thing inert, as gray, as dull ...
On the Funeral of Charles the First (William Lisle Bowles Poem)
The castle clock had tolled midnight: With mattock and with spade, And silent, by the torches' light, His corse in ...
To Urania (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
Everything has its limit, including sorrow. A windowpane stalls a stare. Nor does a grill abandon a leaf. One may ...
Youth and Art (Robert Browning Poem)
1 It once might have been, once only: 2 We lodged in a street together, 3 You, a sparrow on ...
A Description of a City Shower (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Careful Observers may fortel the Hour (By sure Prognosticks) when to dread a Show'r: While Rain depends, the pensive Cat ...
Blighters (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
The House is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks Of harlots shrill ...
Graceland (Carl Sandburg Poems)
TOMB of a millionaire, A multi-millionaire, ladies and gentlemen, Place of the dead where they spend every year The usury ...
The Far Field (Theodore Roethke Poems)
I I dream of journeys repeatedly: Of flying like a bat deep into a narrowing tunnel Of driving alone, without ...
To All and Everything (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
No. It can't be. No! You too, beloved? Why? What for? Darling, look - I came, I brought flowers, but, ...
Ode To an Artichoke (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The artichoke of delicate heart erect in its battle-dress, builds its minimal cupola; keeps stark in its scallop of scales. ...
Lollingdon Downs VIII (John Masefield Poems)
THE Kings go by with jewled crowns; Their horses gleam, their banners shake, their spears are many. The sack of ...
Restlessness (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
At the open door of the room I stand and look at the night, Hold my hand to catch the ...
Holding On (Philip Levine Poems)
Green fingers holding the hillside, mustard whipping in the sea winds, one blood-bright poppy breathing in and out. The odor ...