The Red Lacquer Music-Stand (Amy Lowell Poem)
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
Poems about thrusting (21 Poems)
The Bombardment (Amy Lowell Poem)
Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city. It stops a moment on the carved head of Saint John, ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
Since that first morning when I crawled into the world, a naked grubby thing, and found the world unkind, my ...
John Skelton (Robert Graves Poem)
What could be dafter Than John Skelton's laughter? What sound more tenderly Than his pretty poetry? So where to rank ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
The Code (Robert Frost Poem)
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
A Crystalline Awakening (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
A crystalline awakening on the plateau, the crisp air as brittle as new celery snaps with expectancy. The cold clings ...
Woods (Wendell Berry Poem)
I part the out thrusting branches and come in beneath the blessed and the blessing trees. Though I am silent ...
The White Peacock (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The Rock Cries Out to Us Today (Maya Angelou Poem)
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...
LETTERS TO FRIENDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I Eddie Linden Dear Eddie we've not met Except upon the written page And at your age the wonder Is ...
I, In My Intricate Image (Dylan Thomas Poems)
I I, in my intricate image, stride on two levels, Forged in man's minerals, the brassy orator Laying my ghost ...
Haunted (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool And baked the ...
Prelude to an Unwritten Masterpiece (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
You like my bird-sung gardens: wings and flowers; Calm landscapes for emotion; star-lit lawns; And Youth against the sun-rise ... ...
Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day (Marge Piercy Poems)
In flat America, in Chicago, Graceland cemetery on the German North Side. Forty feet of Corinthian candle celebrate Pullman embedded ...
On Looking Into The Eyes Of A Demon Lover (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Here are two pupils whose moons of black transform to cripples all who look: each lovely lady who peers inside ...
The Satin Dress (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Needle, needle, dip and dart, Thrusting up and down, Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown? ...
The Fledgling (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
So, art thou feahered, art thou flown, Thou naked thing?-and canst alone Upon the unsolid summer air Sustain thyself, and ...
The Passing Strange (John Masefield Poems)
Out of the earth to rest or range Perpetual in perpetual change, The unknown passing through the strange. Water and ...