Emily’s Grave (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Idly one day in a foreign townIn a churchyard's shade I sat me downBy the side of a little cross ...
Poems about terse (21 Poems)
Ars Victrix (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
YES; when the ways oppose- When the hard means rebel, Fairer the work out-grows,- More potent far the spell. O ...
The Dancer (Martinus Nijhoff Poems)
Under my skin lives a captive animalThat wildly moves and bites his way outside,His dark blood throbs, his terse musclesTremble ...
Contours (Noel Coward Poems)
Round - oblong - like jam -Terse as virulent hermaphrodites;Calling across the sodden twisted ends of Time.Edifices of importunitySway like ...
Ye Wearie Wayfarer [A Dedication to the author of Holmby House” (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Fytte IBy Wood and Wold"Beneath the greenwood bough." — W. Scott.Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though ...
The Seer (C J Dennis Poems)
Somewhere or other, 'tis doubtful where,In the archives of Gosh is a volume rare, A precious old classic that nobody ...
The Ghost In The Martini (Anthony Hecht Poems)
Over the rim of the glass Containing a good martini with a twist I eye her bosom and consider a ...
The Anarchist. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
THE dawn hangs heavy on the distant hill,The darkness shudders slowly into light;And from the weary bosom of the nightThe ...
Retroduction To American History (Allen Tate Poems)
Cats walk the floor at midnight; that enemy of fog,The moon, wraps the bedpost in receding stillness; sleepCollects all weary ...
Enigma XXX. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
LET a Parisian prelate lead the vanOf worthies now advancing on the stage;Surely 'twas his own mind the pious manPourtray'd, ...
Old Rhythm And Rhyme (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
They tell me new methods now govern the Muses,The modes of expression have changed with the times;That low is the ...
Tribute (Eloise Alberta Bibb Poems)
(To the sweet bard of The Woman's Club, Miss Alice Ruth Moore.) I peer adown a shining group, Where sages ...
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Book Ends (Tony Harrison Poem)
I Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you're ...
To Live Merrily, And To Trust To Good Verses (Robert Herrick Poem)
Now is the time for mirth, Nor cheek or tongue be dumb; For with the flow'ry earth The golden pomp ...
A Calling to Write (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not oblique, something unclear not with words grandiose a calling to write clear and terse Poetry, beauty in the straightforward ...
No Brigadier throughout the Year (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Brigadier throughout the Year So civic as the Jay -- A Neighbor and a Warrior too With shrill felicity ...
I know Suspense — it steps so terse (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I know Suspense -- it steps so terse And turns so weak away -- Besides -- Suspense is neighborly When ...
An Imitation of Spenser (William Blake Poems)
Thou fair hair'd angel of the evening, Now, while the sun rests on the mountains light, Thy bright torch of ...
Exeunt (Richard Wilbur Poems)
Piecemeal the summer dies; At the field's edge a daisy lives alone; A last shawl of burning lies On a ...
Ernie Pyle (Robert William Service Poems)
I wish I had a simple style In writing verse, As in his prose had Ernie Pyle, So true and ...