Ode To The Confederate Dead (Allen Tate Poems)
Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield their names to the element,The wind whirs without recollection;In the riven troughs ...
Poems about toothless (21 Poems)
I Make This In A Warring Absence (Dylan Thomas Poems)
I make this in a warring absence whenEach ancient, stone-necked minute of love's seasonHarbours my anchored tongue, slips the quaystone,When, ...
Introducing the Day Family (C J Dennis Poems)
Sun Day is a simple child, Face new washed and shining;In the morning prim and mild - Church and ...
The Last Contention (George Meredith Poems)
IYoung captain of a crazy bark!O tameless heart in battered frame!Thy sailing orders have a mark,And hers is not the ...
Old Pete Parraday (C J Dennis Poems)
Old Pete Paraday, his mind works very slow;But, when it fastens on a thoughts, he will not let it go.He ...
Instinct (Cesare Pavese Poems)
From the door of his house in the gentle sunshinethe old man, disillusioned with everything,watches the dog and the bitch ...
Evolutionary Hymn (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future's endless stair; Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us. For stagnation ...
The Truce of the Bear (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale ...
The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama (Andrew Hudgins Poem)
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...
Saul And David (Anthony Hecht Poem)
It was a villainous spirit, snub-nosed, foul Of breath, thick-taloned and malevolent, That squatted within him wheresoever he went .......And ...
Phallus (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
This was the gods' god, The leashed divinity, Divine divining rod And Me within the me. By mindlight tower and ...
TO FATHER* KRONOS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
(* In the original, Schwager, which has the twofold meaning of brother-in-law and postilion.) HASTEN thee, ...
The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
Hudson’s Last Voyage (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
The History Of One Tough Motherfucker (Charles Bukowski Poem)
he came to the door one night wet thin beaten and terrorized a white cross-eyed tailless cat I took him ...
Memorial Day For The War Dead (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now the grief of all your losses to their grief, even of a ...
Lucius Atherton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When my moustache curled, And my hair was black, And I wore tight trousers And a diamond stud, I was ...
Lui Et Elle (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
She is large and matronly And rather dirty, A little sardonic-looking, as if domesticity had driven her to it. Though ...
Monologue of a Mother (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
This is the last of all, this is the last! I must hold my hands, and turn my face to ...