Soldier an’ Sailor Too (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile, I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up ...
Poems about sweats (21 Poems)
St. Winefred’s Well (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
ACT I. SC. I Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following. T. WHAT is it, Gwen, my girl? why do you ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
First Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Your were my first time. The first time I found ecstasy. Our bodies joined, As our hearts have been for ...
Pink Slides (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I saw her for a split second driving down Canal toward home off to the left almost over my shoulder ...
For the Better (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred, With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed; Enquiring, how he did ...
Fragment at Tunbridge-Wells (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
FOR He, that made, must new create us, Ere Seneca, or Epictetus, With all their serious Admonitions, Can, for the ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Elegy IV: The Perfume (John Donne Poem)
Once, and but once found in thy company, All thy supposed escapes are laid on me; And as a thief ...
The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
CESAR VALLEJO (Luis Benitez Poem)
Walking along the corridors of imagination, free and alone forever, as when he was and didn't know he was a ...
Dream Song 51: Our wounds to time, from all the other times (John Berryman Poem)
Our wounds to time, from all the other times, sea-times slow, the times of galaxies fleeing, the dwarfs' dead times, ...
Alone (Deborah Ager Poem)
Over the fence, the dead settle in for a journey. Nine o'clock. You are alone for the first time today. ...
Love & Fame & Death (Charles Bukowski Poems)
it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market; it sits and watches me, it sweats ...
Balloon Faces (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE BALLOONS hang on wires in the Marigold Gardens. They spot their yellow and gold, they juggle their blue and ...
Mystic (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The air is a mill of hooks -- Questions without answer, Glittering and drunk as flies Whose kiss stings unbearably ...
The Show (Wilfred Owen Poems)
My soul looked down from a vague height with Death, As unremembering how I rose or why, And saw a ...
All Night (Lisel Mueller Poems)
All night the knot in the shoelace waits for its liberation, and the match on the table packs its head ...
April Rise (Laurie Lee Poems)
If ever I saw blessing in the air I see it now in this still early day Where lemon-green the ...
The Present (Philip Levine Poems)
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...
Red Dust (Philip Levine Poems)
This harpie with dry red curls talked openly of her husband, his impotence, his death, the death of her lover, ...