Marshall’s Mate (Henry Lawson Poems)
You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn -- You could have watched the grass scorch brown ...
Poems about tanks (26 Poems)
To Be Amused (Henry Lawson Poem)
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
In the Storm that is to come (Henry Lawson Poem)
By our place in the midst of the furthest seas we were fated to stand alone - When the nations ...
The Old Bark School (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes Where each leak in rainy weather ...
Andy’s Gone With Cattle (Henry Lawson Poems)
Our Andy's gone to battle now 'Gainst Drought, the red marauder; Our Andy's gone with cattle now Across the Queensland ...
Out Back (Henry Lawson Poem)
The old year went, and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought, The cheque was spent that the ...
For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell Poem)
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
The Testing-Tree (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
1 On my way home from school up tribal Providence Hill past the Academy ballpark where I could never hope ...
Woolworth’s (Mark Hillringhouse Poems)
for Greg Fallon A kid yells "Mother Fucker" out the school bus window. I don't think anyone notices the afternoon ...
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 ...
Testimony (Seamus Heaney Poem)
'We were killing pigs when the Yanks arrived. A Tuesday morning, sunlight and gutter-blood Outside the slaughter house. >From the ...
The Abnormal Is Not Courage (Jack Gilbert Poem)
The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German Tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers, A magnitude ...
What would We want (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
If it were us our sisters, our brothers there in the streets bloody, unbowed before the tanks the madman What ...
In the Time of Protest (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the time of protest the turning of this page the age of despots ending a new day begun They ...
Thus Spake Mary Reilly (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Thus Spake Mary Reilly, "Respondeat Superior, My Ass - Sue 'em All" Sue 'em Sue them all damn it Someone ...
The jaffa and jerusalem railway (Eugene Field Poem)
A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there; A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining ...
Bird With Two Right Wings (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
And now our government a bird with two right wings flies on from zone to zone while we go on ...
Cairo Jag (Keith Douglas Poem)
Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake, a pasty Syrian with a few words of English ...
Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
Do People moulder equally, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Do People moulder equally, They bury, in the Grave? I do believe a Species As positively live As I, who ...
I like to see it lap the Miles — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I like to see it lap the Miles -- And lick the Valleys up -- And stop to feed itself ...
Of a Forgetful Sea (Kelli Russell Agodon Poem)
Sometimes, I forget the sun sinking into ocean. Desert is only a handful of sand held by my daughter. In ...
A Real Motorcycle (Erin Moure Poems)
Unspeakable. The word that fills up the poem, that the head tries to excise. At 6 a.m., the wet lion. ...
Where Giant Mushrooms Grow! (John Matthew Poems)
In Nevada there is a field where giant mushrooms grow One mile high and two miles wide, they say on ...
The Widening Spell Of Leaves (Larry Levis Poems)
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
Something Has Fallen (Philip Levine Poems)
Something has fallen wordlessly and holds still on the black driveway. You find it, like a jewel, among the empty ...