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 ...
Poems about thud (22 Poems)
Roads (Amy Lowell Poem)
I know a country laced with roads, They join the hills and they span the brooks, They weave like a ...
Church Going (Philip Larkin Poem)
Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, ...
The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
Here Died (Henry Lawson Poem)
There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home, For he hears a voice in the ...
The Intruder (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
My mother-- preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog's belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould ...
The Blue Bowl (Jane Kenyon Poem)
Like primitives we buried the cat with his bowl. Bare-handed we scraped sand and gravel back into the hole. They ...
Paragraphs from a Day-Book (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
Cherry-ripe: dark sweet burlats, scarlet reverchons firm-fleshed and tart in the mouth bigarreaux, peach-and-white napoléons as the harvest moves north ...
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 ...
Elephant Dormitory (Russell Edson Poem)
An elephant went to bed and pulled a crazy quilt up under its tusks. But just as the great gray ...
“Have you ever made a just man?” (Stephen Crane Poem)
"Have you ever made a just man?" "Oh, I have made three," answered God, "But two of them are dead, ...
The Loss of Love (Countee Cullen Poem)
All through an empty place I go, And find her not in any room; The candles and the lamps I ...
Franklin Hyde (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle. His Uncle came upon Franklin Hyde Carousing in the ...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
Wildpeace (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
Not the peace of a cease-fire not even the vision of the wolf and the lamb, but rather as in ...
To A Daughter Leaving Home (Linda Pastan Poems)
When I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away on two ...
(Inner Tube) (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
On the warm July river head back upside down river for a roof slowly paddling towards an estuary between trees ...
Independence. (Claire Nixon Poems)
Listen. thud-thud Can you hear it? thud-thud It's the beat of my heart. thud-thud I shall live on. thud-thud My ...
The Sentry (Wilfred Owen Poems)
We'd found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell Hammered on ...
Elizabeth (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
Catch, my Uncle Jack said and oh I caught this huge apple red as Mrs Kelly's bum. It's red as ...
Artificer (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Burning, he walks in the stream of flickering letters, clarinets, machines throbbing quicker than the heart, lopped-off heads, silk canvases, ...
The Present (Philip Levine Poems)
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...