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, ...
Poems about tubes (21 Poems)
The Mother Poem (two) (Jackie Kay Poem)
I always wanted to give birth Do that incredible natural thing That women do-I nearly broke down When I heard ...
When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
LoveSpell: Against Endings (Erica Jong Poem)
All the endings in my life rise up against me like that sea of troubles Shakespeare mixed with metaphors; like ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Testimony (Seamus Heaney Poem)
'We were killing pigs when the Yanks arrived. A Tuesday morning, sunlight and gutter-blood Outside the slaughter house. >From the ...
Without Looking (Patricia Goedicke Poem)
Either at my friend's daughter's sixteen-year-old body dumped on the morgue slab, T-shirt stuck fast to one ripped breast I ...
The Shark’s Parlor (James Dickey Poems)
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island Where the night tide came ...
Crater Face (Denise Duhamel Poem)
is what we called her. The story was that her father had thrown Drano at her which was probably true, ...
What would I give to see his face? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
What would I give to see his face? I'd give -- I'd give my life -- of course -- But ...
The Four Brothers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
MAKE war songs out of these; Make chants that repeat and weave. Make rhythms up to the ragtime chatter of ...
Skyscraper (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BY day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the ...
An Electric Sign Goes Dark (Carl Sandburg Poems)
POLAND, France, Judea ran in her veins, Singing to Paris for bread, singing to Gotham in a fizz at the ...
Song of the Artesian Water (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Now the stock have started dying, for the Lord has sent a drought; But we're sick of prayers and Providence ...
Lesbos (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Viciousness in the kitchen! The potatoes hiss. It is all Hollywood, windowless, The fluorescent light wincing on and off like ...
Travels With John Hunter (Les Murray Poems)
We who travel between worlds lose our muscle and bone. I was wheeling a barrow of earth when agony bayoneted ...
Dire Cure (William Matthews Poems)
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...
Coming Close (Philip Levine Poems)
Take this quiet woman, she has been standing before a polishing wheel for over three hours, and she lacks twenty ...
Passing Out (Philip Levine Poems)
The doctor fingers my bruise. "Magnificent," he says, "black at the edges and purple cored." Seated, he spies for clues, ...