The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Poems about swarms (31 Poems)
Mother, Summer, I (Philip Larkin Poem)
My mother, who hates thunder storms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark ...
The Gypsy and the Wind (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
Playing her parchment moon Precosia comes along a watery path of laurels and crystal lights. The starless silence, fleeing from ...
The White Man’s Foot (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
In his lodge beside a river, Close beside a frozen river, Sat an old man, sad and lonely. White his ...
Hiawatha’s Departure (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer ...
sam swill (Rg Gregory Poem)
sam swill took a pill went blue ate stew had pains no brains sucked a date too late swallowed stone ...
THE FIRST WALPURGIS-NIGHT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gay From frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad ...
Escape (Robert Graves Poem)
August 6, 1916.-Officer previously reported died of wounds, now reported wounded: Graves, Captain R., Royal Welch Fusiliers.) .but I was ...
The Psalter (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
Behind the Arras (Bliss Carman Poem)
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
The Palace of Humbug (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Behind, perhaps, let the sea blow. (Carlos Barbarito Poem)
Behind, perhaps, let the sea blow. Let some word blow outside every destination of slime, rust. Perhaps ointments from Avicenna, ...
Part Of Speech (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece of ...
Dream Song 19: Here, whence (John Berryman Poem)
Here, whence all have departed orwill do, here airless, where that witchy ball wanted, fought toward, dreamed of, all a ...
THE DANCE OF DEATH (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
CARRYING bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves, Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves With all the careless ...
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin (Robert Browning Poem)
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
88. The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer (Robert Burns Poems)
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
Pain In Pleasure (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
A THOUGHT ay like a flower upon mine heart, And drew around it other thoughts like bees For multitude and ...
Devils (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
Storm-clouds hurtle, storm-clouds hover; Flying snow is set alight By the moon whose form they cover; Blurred the heavens, blurred ...
Understand Old One (Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poems)
What if you came back now To our new world, the city roaring There on the old peaceful camping place ...
Winter Heavens (George Meredith Poems)
Sharp is the night, but stars with frost alive Leap off the rim of earth across the dome. It is ...
The Battle of El-Teb (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Great Britain, I think no shame To write in praise of brave General Graham! Whose name will ...
Chattanooga (Herman Melville Poems)
(November, 1863) A kindling impulse seized the host Inspired by heaven's elastic air; Their hearts outran their General's plan, Though ...
Love in the Valley (George Meredith Poems)
Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to ...
Phoebus with Admetus (George Meredith Poems)
WHEN by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, Mindful were the ploughmen of who ...
To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet muse with your fair fortune chose, And as complexions ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Davis Matlock (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Suppose it is nothing but the hive: That there are drones and workers And queens, and nothing but storing honey ...
The Pangolin (Marianne Moore Poems)
Another armored animal--scale lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central tail-row! This near artichoke with head ...