Essay on Psychiatrists (Robert Pinsky Poems)
I. InvocationIt's crazy to think one could describe them-Calling on reason, fantasy, memory, eves and ears-As though they were all ...
Poems about twenty-seven (16 Poems)
I’m Going to Start Living Like a Mystic (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Today I am pulling on a green wool sweaterand walking across the park in a dusky snowfall.The trees stand like ...
In Iowa, Where the Plan for an Attack on Harper’s Ferry Was Explained and Adopted (Edward W Williams Poems)
Dear friends, let me to you relate A plan that I begot of yore,A plan to conquer, extirpate Slaveholding now ...
The Wonderful Spring Of San Joaquin (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Of all the fountains that poets sing,--Crystal, thermal, or mineral spring,Ponce de Leon's Fount of Youth,Wells with bottoms of doubtful ...
The Memory Man (Billy Bennett Poems)
I'm Professor McCann; I'm the memory man.I've a memory no-one would suspect.I remember things you've all forgottenAnd remember what I ...
Taking The Census (Charles R Thatcher Poems)
When the census is taken, of course, All the elderly females are furious,They don't like to tell their real age, ...
A Piteous Plaint (Eugene Field Poems)
I cannot eat my porridge, I weary of my play;No longer can I sleep at night, No longer romp by ...
Blue Funk (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Nameless terror dogged his heel,Little fears loomed large and black,Till his head began to reelAnd his manhood crack.There was no ...
A Spring Piece Left In The Middle (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
Taut, thick fingers punch the teeth of my typewriter. Three words are down on paper in capitals: SPRING SPRING SPRING... ...
A piteous plaint (Eugene Field Poem)
I cannot eat my porridge, I weary of my play; No longer can I sleep at night, No longer romp ...
Aemilianus Monae, Alexandrian, 628 – 655 A.D. (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
With words, with countenance, and with manners I shall build an excellent panoply; and in this way I shall face ...
Tower Of Song (Leonard Cohen Poem)
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play ...
After the Engagement (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Well, Mabel, 'tis over and ended--- The ball I wrote was to be; And oh! it was perfectly splendid--- If ...
Madam La Maquise (Robert William Service Poems)
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
The Captain (John McCrae Poems)
Here all the day she swings from tide to tide, Here all night long she tugs a rusted chain, A ...
Heaven (Philip Levine Poems)
If you were twenty-seven and had done time for beating our ex-wife and had no dreams you remembered in the ...