A Winter Day (Joanna Baillie Poems)
The cock, warm roosting 'midst his feather'd dames,Now lifts his beak and snuffs the morning air,Stretches his neck and claps ...
Poems about stupidly (21 Poems)
Health (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Of all the blessings which kind heaven bestows,From infancy to life's most lengthened close,The one, far greater than all earthly ...
On To Richmond (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
After Southey's "March to Moscow"Major General ScottAn order had gotTo push on the column to Richmond;For loudly went forth,From all ...
Epistle From Mrs. Yonge To Her Husband (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
Think not this paper comes with vain pretenseTo move your pity, or to mourn th'offense.Too well I know that hard ...
The Lover: A Ballad (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
At length, by so much importunity press'd, Take, C{-}{-}, at once, the inside of my breast; This stupid indiff'rence so often you ...
Family Romance (Larry Levis Poems)
Sister once of weeds & a dark water that held stillIn ditches reflecting the odd,Abstaining clouds that passed, & keptTheir ...
Out Of Time (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
1I saw Time flowing like a hundred yachtsThat fly behind the daylight, foxed with air;Or piercing, like the quince-bright, bitter ...
Chokecherries (Peter Klappert Poems)
Thirty feet from my windows,an old kennel-wire fencethickly grown over with honeysuckle,poison ivy, and wild rosesjust beginning to openinto the ...
The Camp-Follower (Maxwell Bodenheim Poems)
We spoke, the camp-follower and I.About us was a cold, pungent odor --Gun-powder, stale wine, wet earth, and the smell ...
The Manuscript of Saint Alexius (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
There came a child into the solemn hall where great Pope Innocent sat throned and heard angry disputings on Free-Will ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towersThe golden lights go out . . .The yellow windows darken, the shades ...
Fracas Between The Deities. Addressed To Mrs. F-, An Enthusiastic Votary At The Shrine Of Bacchus (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"ROSY Bacchus and Pallas once had an affray, Where neither would precedence yield; For each seem'd determin'd on gaining the ...
The Trenches (Frederic Manning Poems)
Endless lanes sunken in the clay, Bays, and traverses, fringed with wasted herbage, Seed-pods of blue scabious, and some lingering ...
My Heart Flutters Hastily (Anonymous Africas Poems)
My heart flutters hastily,When I think of my love of you;It lets me not act sensibly,It leaps from its place.It ...
Plutonian Ode (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
The White Peacock (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers The golden lights go out . . . The yellow windows darken, ...
Stillborn (Sylvia Plath Poems)
These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis. They grew their toes and fingers well enough, Their little foreheads ...
Letter In November (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Love, the world Suddenly turns, turns color. The streetlight Splits through the rat's tail Pods of the laburnum at nine ...
Pheasant (Sylvia Plath Poems)
You said you would kill it this morning. Do not kill it. It startles me still, The jut of that ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...