A Roxbury Garden (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Hoops Blue and pink sashes, Criss-cross shoes, Minna and Stella run out into the garden To play at hoop. ...
Poems about taller (31 Poems)
The Fight at Eureka Stockade (Henry Lawson Poem)
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
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 ...
My Father’s Love Letters (Yusef Komunyakaa Poems)
On Fridays he'd open a can of Jax After coming home from the mill, & ask me to write a ...
The Transparent Man (Anthony Hecht Poem)
I'm mighty glad to see you, Mrs. Curtis, And thank you very kindly for this visit-- Especially now when all ...
Gioconda And Si-Ya-U (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
Sudden Things (Donald Hall Poem)
A storm was coming, that was why it was dark. The wind was blowing the fronds of the palm trees ...
The Sick Stockrider (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
Standing Straighter (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Something, I cannot fully explain; but certain and true each time, on the side of the main street the parade ...
The Christ Candle (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In that holy place, on that Oh Holy Night we rose as a family, to the chancel rail into the ...
The Geometry of Dishes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like a giant game of blocks is the washing of dishes of a family of five even when only the ...
A Sunflower Grows (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Day by day the seed grows taller and taller climbing toward the sun ants and beetles nibble, shred the leaves ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
Biography In The First Person (Stephen Dunn Poem)
This is not the way I am. Really, I am much taller in person, the hairline I conceal reaches back ...
The Hunt (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The hunt begins at a languid pace belying hysteria building in place, biding its time to menace the peace in ...
The House of Christmas (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All ...
Lepanto (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
February (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
The Titanic (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Forth flashed the serpent streak of steel, Consummate crown of man's device; Down crashed upon an immobile And brainless barrier ...
The Titanic (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Forth flashed the serpent streak of steel, Consummate crown of man's device; Down crashed upon an immobile And brainless barrier ...
Inscription For A Fountain On A Heath (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
This Sycamore, oft musical with bees,-- Such tents the Patriarchs loved ! O long unharmed May all its ag?d boughs ...
The Shroud of Color (Countee Cullen Poem)
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
The Vixen (John Clare Poem)
Among the taller wood with ivy hung, The old fox plays and dances round her young. She snuffs and barks ...
Elegy: Walking the Line (Edgar Bowers Poem)
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
Man (Richard Brautigan Poem)
With his hat on he's about five inches taller than a taxicab. (Richard Brautigan)
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 08: The Box With Silver Handles (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Well,-it was two days after my husband died- Two days! And the earth still raw above him. And I was ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 03: One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand (Conrad Aiken Poem)
One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand, With wave upon slowly shattering wave, Turned to the city ...
A Woman Waking (Philip Levine Poems)
She wakens early remembering her father rising in the dark lighting the stove with a match scraped on the floor. ...
To Jane Addams at the Hague (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen, Stand now for peace, (though anger ...