The Condemned (C. S. Lewis Poem)
There is a wildness still in England that will not feed In cages; it shrinks away from the touch of ...
Poems about traps (24 Poems)
The Captain of the Push (Henry Lawson Poem)
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped 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 ...
Possibilities (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine -- A fortnight fully to be missed, Behold, we lose our fourth at ...
Divided Destinies (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
It was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine, And much I wondered how he lived, and where ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
The Man He Killed (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have set us down to wet Right ...
A Working Pier (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
a dock, a working pier out into the estuary the pull of the tides, swaying seaweed barnacles, algae, the smell ...
An Empty Threat (Robert Frost Poem)
I stay; But it isn't as if There wasn't always Hudson's Bay And the fur trade, A small skiff And ...
Head Against The Walls (Paul Eluard Poem)
There were only a few of them In all the earth Each one thought he was alone They sang, they ...
Remembrances (John Clare Poem)
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
Sonnet (Louise Bogan Poem)
Since you would claim the sources of my thought Recall the meshes whence it sprang unlimed, The reedy traps which ...
Part 2 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
You Mustn’t Show Weakness (Yehuda Amichai Poems)
You mustn't show weakness and you've got to have a tan. But sometimes I feel like the thin veils of ...
The Song of Los (William Blake Poems)
AFRICA I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: He sung it to four harps at the ...
The Federal Bus Conductor and the Old Lady (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
The Road to Hogan’s Gap (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Now look, you see, it's this way like, You cross the broken bridge And run the crick down till you ...
That Half-Crown Sweep (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The run of Billabong-go-dry Is just beyond Lime Burner's Gap; Its waterhole and tank supply Is excellent -- upon the ...
The Lung Fish (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The Honorable Ardleigh Wyse Was every fisherman's despair; He caught his fish on floating flies, In fact he caught them ...
Uncle Bill (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
My Uncle Bill! My Uncle Bill! How doth my heart with anguish thrill! For he, our chief, our Robin Hood, ...
The First Surveyor (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
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 ...
Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down (Thomas Lux Poems)
As you descend, slowly, falling faster past you this snow, ghostly, some flakes bio- luminescent (you plunge, and this lit ...
The Trap (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
She was taught desire in the street, Not at the angels' feet. By the good no word was said Of ...