Idiot (Allen Tate Poems)
The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,The meadow creeps implacable and still;A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.One ...
Poems about stinks (21 Poems)
Man (David Guramishvili Poems)
- 1 -The mortal flesh must rotIn a life-forgotten spot.The soul ...
The Little Things (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I used to be a peaceful chap as didn't ask for trouble,An' as for rows an' fightin', why, I'd mostly ...
Back To Hilo (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
There's a dark an' dirty wineshop on a waterfront I know,An' a cross-eyed Dago keeps it — or he kep' ...
In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia (Alexander Pope Poems)
Tho' Artemisia talks, by fits, Of councils, classics, fathers, wits;Reads Malbranche, Boyle, and Locke;Yet in some things methinks she fails,'Twere ...
Prayer (Alan Dugan Poems)
God, I need a job because I need money. Here the world is, enjoyable with whiskey, women, ultimate weapons, and ...
On Being A Householder (Alan Dugan Poems)
I live inside of a machine or machines. Every time one goes off another starts. Why don't I go outside ...
We Are All Captured Beasts (Fyodor Sologub Poems)
We are all captured beasts, And we howl - as we might. We can't open the doors, For the doors ...
At The Smithville Methodist Church (Stephen Dunn Poem)
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week, but when she came home with the "Jesus Saves" ...
Cologne (Paul Celan Poem)
In Kohln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous ...
Cologne (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
In K?hln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous ...
Hamlet Off-Stage: Mel Gibson Dolls It (D. C. Berry Poem)
Mel Gibson's Hamlet stinks -- doll Mel. Wind up Mel and Mel's eyes glaze into porcelain, blue gulfs of earnestness, ...
Into the Dusk-Charged Air (John Ashbery Poem)
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
Big Night On The Town (Charles Bukowski Poems)
drunk on the dark streets of some city, it's night, you're lost, where's your room? you enter a bar to ...
The Lady’s Dressing Room (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia spent in dressing; The goddess from her chamber ...
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Corinna, Pride of Drury-Lane, For whom no Shepherd sighs in vain; Never did Covent Garden boast So bright a batter'd, ...
Enemy Conscript (Robert William Service Poems)
What are we fighting for, We fellows who go to war? fighting for Freedom's sake! (You give me the belly-ache.) ...
Root Cellar (Theodore Roethke Poems)
Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch, Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Sestina: Altaforte (Ezra Pound Poems)
LOQUITUR: En Bertans de Born. Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of ...
Time Stands Still over Govandi Station (John Matthew Poems)
A kite flutters, On a high tension wire - Against a stark blue sky. Beggar and old mother huddle On ...