An Expostulation (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Against too many writers of science fiction Why did you lure us on like this, Light-year on light-year, through the ...
Poems about strangeness (26 Poems)
The Importance Of Elsewhere (Philip Larkin Poem)
Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home, Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech, Insisting so on difference, ...
Advent (Patrick Kavanagh Poem)
We have tested and tasted too much, lover- Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder. But here ...
With The Face (Laura Riding Jackson Poem)
With the face goes a mirror As with the mind a world. Likeness tells the doubting eye That strangeness is ...
The Abnormal Is Not Courage (Jack Gilbert Poem)
The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German Tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers, A magnitude ...
The Playground of Life XIX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
One hour devoted to the pursuit of Beauty And Love is worth a full century of glory Given by the ...
The Generations of Men (Robert Frost Poem)
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
In the Home Stretch (Robert Frost Poem)
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
Maple (Robert Frost Poem)
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
After Apple-Picking (Robert Frost Poem)
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside ...
Sonnet XLII: Some Men There Be (Michael Drayton Poem)
Some men there be which like my method well And much commend the strangeness of my vein; Some say I ...
A Legend of Service (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
Phantasmagoria Canto I (The Trystyng ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
The house where I was born (03) (Yves Bonnefoy Poem)
I woke up, it was the house where I was born, It was night, trees were crowding On all sides ...
Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
a novel by Richard Brautigan THE COVER FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA The cover for Trout Fishing in America is ...
Octaves (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
Poem With Refrains (Robert Pinsky Poems)
The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog Uncurling over the tainted city river, A young girl rowing and her anxious ...
ICICLES ROUND A TREE IN DUMFRIESSHIRE (Ruth Padel Poems)
We're talking different kinds of vulnerability here. These icicles aren't going to last for ever Suspended in the ultra violet ...
Stings (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Bare-handed, I hand the combs. The man in white smiles, bare-handed, Our cheesecloth gauntlets neat and sweet, The throats of ...
The Plunge (Ezra Pound Poems)
I would bathe myself in strangeness: These comforts heaped upon me, smother me! I burn, I scald so for the ...
The Lobster (Howard Nemerov Poems)
Here at the Super Duper, in a glass tank Supplied by a rill of cold fresh water Running down a ...
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934 (Anais Nin Poems)
"Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...
The Horses (Edwin Muir Poems)
Barely a twelvemonth after The seven days war that put the world to sleep, Late in the evening the strange ...
The Passing Strange (John Masefield Poems)
Out of the earth to rest or range Perpetual in perpetual change, The unknown passing through the strange. Water and ...
The Listeners (Walter de la Mare Poems)
"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the ...