The Fruit Shop (Amy Lowell Poem)
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
Poems about theft (24 Poems)
Arrival (Philip Larkin Poem)
Morning, a glass door, flashes Gold names off the new city, Whose white shelves and domes travel The slow sky ...
Lines On A Young Lady’s Photograph Album (Philip Larkin Poems)
At last you yielded up the album, which Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on ...
Home Is So Sad (Philip Larkin Poem)
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped in the comfort of the last to go As ...
Tomlinson (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
Come, My Celia (Ben Jonson Poem)
Come, my Celia, let us prove While we may, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever; He ...
Song To Celia – I (Ben Jonson Poem)
Come, my Celia, let us prove While we may the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He ...
The Summit Redwood (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Only stand high a long enough time your lightning will come; that is what blunts the peaks of redwoods; But ...
Providence (George Herbert Poem)
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
The Carpenter’s Son (A. E. Housman Poems)
"Here the hangman stops his cart: Now the best of friends must part. Fare you well, for ill fare I: ...
The Thieves (Robert Graves Poem)
Lovers in the act despense With such meum-tuum sense As might warningly reveal What they must not pick or steal, ...
Perpetuating a Canard (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Once begun continuing the lie another layer added perpetuating the canard usurping a story, words to create ambiguity Purposely adding ...
Sends the wrong message (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
What's in a song John (or is it 'Knuckles'), what's in a song about an unemployed, suicidal bum, caught in ...
To Ben Jonson upon Occasion of his Ode of Defiance Annexed t (Thomas Carew Poem)
'Tis true, dear Ben, thy just chastising hand Hath fix'd upon the sotted age a brand To their swoll'n pride ...
On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture (William Cowper Poems)
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
The Cook’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Immolated (Herman Melville Poems)
Children of my happier prime, When One yet lived with me, and threw Her rainbow over life and time, Even ...
Aner Clute (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Over and over they used to ask me, While buying the wine or the beer, In Peoria first, and later ...
Ralph Rhodes (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
All they said was true: I wrecked my father's bank with my loans To dabble in wheat; but this was ...
On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost (Andrew Marvell Poems)
When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender Book his vast Design unfold, Messiah Crown'd, Gods Reconcil'd Decree, ...
Ballade of a Special Edition (Amy Levy Poems)
He comes; I hear him up the street-- Bird of ill omen, flapping wide The pinion of a printed sheet, ...
Corn (Sidney Lanier Poems)
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
Resurrection (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Sometimes in morning sunlights by the river Where in the early fall long grasses wave, Light winds from over the ...