A young Levite among priests (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
A young Levite among priests,He remained long on morning watch.Jewish night grew thick around him,The ruined temple was solemnly being ...
Poems about swaddled (21 Poems)
“A young Levite among priests” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
A young Levite among priests,He remained long on morning watch.Jewish night grew thick around him,The ruined temple was solemnly being ...
Spires (Lola Ridge Poems)
Spires of Grace Church,For you the workers of the worldTravailed with the mountains…Aborting their own dreamsTill the dream of you ...
From The Night Of Forebeing (Francis Thompson Poems)
An ode after Easter.Cast wide the folding doorways of the East,For now is light increased!And the wind-besomed chambers of the ...
The Swanks of Gosh (C J Dennis Poems)
Come mourn with me for the land of Gosh, Oh, weep with me for the luckless GlugsOf the land of ...
The Singing-Woman From The Wood’s Edge (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? ...
Nearly A Valediction (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van that ...
Waiting with Wonder (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Waiting, with wonder how they must have been even in the struggles the journey they were on going to the ...
A Child of God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Living as a child of God washed clean, baptized anointed by the Spirit appointed, by the voice, the hand of ...
An Image in the Glass (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The face of the babe, our savior swaddled in blue, wrapped in the blue of the Madonna his face, pure, ...
A Dangerous Question (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In my trade, you never are to ask these kinds of questions, questions where you don't know the answer, those ...
Gerontion (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
Saturday’s Child (Countee Cullen Poems)
Some are teethed on a silver spoon, With the stars strung for a rattle; I cut my teeth as the ...
August 17th (Anne Sexton Poems)
Good for visiting hospitals or charitable work. Take some time to attend to your health. Surely I will be disquieted ...
Three Women (Sylvia Plath Poems)
A Poem for Three Voices Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about FIRST VOICE: I am slow as the world. ...
Face Lift (Sylvia Plath Poems)
You bring me good news from the clinic, Whipping off your silk scarf, exhibiting the tight white Mummy-cloths, smiling: I'm ...
Is White a Color? (John Matthew Poems)
White, pristine, unblemished They say it is not a color I love white mists, clouds Lingering on blue mountains. White, ...
Sonnet for Mother (John Matthew Poems)
Decked in blooms, Swaddled in gold filigreed shrouds, Smeared with perfumes, She traveled into the clouds. A life of love ...
Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Oblig'd by frequent visits of this man, Whom as Priest, Poet, and Musician, I for some branch of Melchizedeck took, ...
The Singing-Woman From The Wood’s Edge (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? ...
January 31 (The sky is crumbling…) (David Lehman Poems)
The sky is crumbling into millions of paper dots the wind blows in my face so I duck into my ...