The Old Play (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IIN an old play-house, in an old play,In an old piece that has been done to death,We dance, kind ladies, ...
Poems about tedium (20 Poems)
An Ode In Time of Inauguration (Franklin P. Adams Poems)
(March 4, 1913)Thine aid, O Muse, I consciously beseech;I crave thy succour, ask for thine assistanceThat men may cry: 'Some ...
Bel Canto (Kenneth Koch Poems)
The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp,And salty light reveals the Mayan School.The Irish hope their names are ...
When I Was Ill (Johannes Ewald Poems)
Beatus ille, qui procul negotiis - Horace:Happy the man, who far from life's allureIs not too rich - and likewise ...
The Ten Poems of Solitude V (Hugues C Pernath Poems)
I abhor the shame, the shudder of the pastWhen everything was more than being and nothing else.When each moment unmoved, ...
Let Us Know (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
0, thou profound, eternal blue,God's mystic arch of heaven-land!Art thou not veiling spirit hue,And hiding the angelic band?Jehovah! so move ...
To The Architect (R S Ward Poems)
To build, to add sheer beauty to the earth,To paint the foreground to the eternal sky,Meet to reflect its silent ...
Savior (Maya Angelou Poems)
Petulant priests, greedycenturions, and one millionincensed gestures standbetween your love and me.Your agape sacrificeis reduced to colored glass,vapid penance, and ...
The Lady Of La Garaye – Part II (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
A FIRST walk after sickness: the sweet breeze That murmurs welcome in the bending trees, When the cold shadowy foe ...
The Voyage (Charles Baudelaire Poems)
? Maxime du CampIFor the child, in love with globe, and stamps,the universe equals his vast appetite.Ah! How great the ...
The Coming Of Winter (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Poems)
_Stanzas from "Onegin"_Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer,Than Southern Winter scarce more bland--Is undeniably withdrawingOn fleeting footsteps from the land.Soon will ...
Envoy In Autumn (Edward Powys Mathers Poems)
Translated From the Chinese of Tu Fu (712-770).Here are the doleful rains,And one would say the sky is weepingThe death ...
I Hardly Remember (Rafael Guillen Poem)
I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I carry ...
I Hardly Remember (Robert Graves Poem)
I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I carry ...
The Stranger (Aleksandr Blok Poem)
The restaurants on hot spring evenings Lie under a dense and savage air. Foul drafts and hoots from dunken revelers ...
Far Rockaway (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
"the cure of souls." Henry James The radiant soda of the seashore fashions Fun, foam and freedom. The sea laves ...
Dolor (Theodore Roethke Poems)
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight, All the ...
Who shall deliver me? (Christina Rossetti Poems)
God strengthen me to bear myself; That heaviest weight of all to bear, Inalienable weight of care. All others are ...
Insomniac (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The night is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, ...
Gentleman Alone (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The young maricones and the horny muchachas, The big fat widows delirious from insomnia, The young wives thirty hours' pregnant, ...