The Glance (Francis Beaumont Poems)
Cold Virtue guard me, or I shall endureFrom the next glance a double calentureOf fire and lust! Two flames, two ...
Poems about tile (21 Poems)
The Manor Farm (Edward Thomas Poems)
The rock-like mud unfroze a little, and rills Ran and sparkled down each side of the road Under the catkins ...
The Goldfinch (C J Dennis Poems)
When dandelions star the fields Another alien singer, I,Nursed upon England's flowery wealds,Seeking no tithe of treasured yields, Drop sudden ...
Heart of Ruin (Arun Kolatkar Poems)
The roof comes down on Maruti's head.Nobody seems to mind.Least of all Maruti himselfMay be he likes a temple better ...
An excerpt from “Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus” (Denise Levertov Poem)
iiGloria Praise the wet snow falling early. Praise the shadow my neighor's chimney casts on the tile roof even this ...
The Widow at Windsor (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? She 'as ships on ...
The Land (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him ...
Spirit Dity Of No Fax Line Dial Tone (Bob Hicok Poem)
The telephone company calls and asks what the fuss is. Betty from the telephone company, who's not concerned with the ...
Salmon (Jorie Graham Poem)
I watched them once, at dusk, on television, run, in our motel room half-way through Nebraska, quick, glittering, past beauty, ...
Smoked Syrup (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Buckets and buckets of sap, culled from willing maples pouring into the vat the cauldron atop the old, crumbling outdoor ...
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books (Robert Frost Poems)
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people ...
The Snow-Storm (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: ...
Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The Lovers of the Poor (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars ...
Egypt, Tobago (Derek Walcott Poems)
There is a shattered palm on this fierce shore, its plumes the rusting helm- et of a dead warrior. Numb ...
WARS & RUMORS OF WARS (Emanuel Xavier Poems)
"Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye not be troubles; all these things must come ...
The Princess (part 5) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
The Manor Farm (Edward Thomas Poems)
THE rock-like mud unfroze a little, and rills Ran and sparkled down each side of the road Under the catkins ...
A Mediocre Man (Robert William Service Poems)
I'm just a mediocre man Of no high-brow pretence; A comfortable life I plan With care and commonsense. I do ...
The Defence of Guenevere (William Morris Poems)
But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand ...