Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? (A. E. Housman Poem)
Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? Oh that was right, lad, that was brave: Yours was not an ill ...
Poems about undoing (22 Poems)
sam swill (Rg Gregory Poem)
sam swill took a pill went blue ate stew had pains no brains sucked a date too late swallowed stone ...
Into the Light (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Stopping in his tracks on the Damascus Road stepping into the light never the same again Changed by the word ...
Tears In Sleep (Louise Bogan Poem)
All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day, And I, in the cage of sleep, on a stranger's ...
Dream Song 134: Sick at 6 & sick again at 9 (John Berryman Poem)
Sick at 6 & sick again at 9 was Henry's gloomy Monday morning oh. Still he had to lecture. They ...
Cristina (Robert Browning Poem)
I. She should never have looked at me If she meant I should not love her! There are plenty ... ...
306. Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790 (Robert Burns Poems)
FINTRY, my stay in wordly strife, Friend o' my muse, friend o' my life, Are ye as idle's I am? ...
Pull A String, A Puppet Moves (Charles Bukowski Poems)
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, ...
Orphan School (Robert William Service Poems)
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
Botany Bay Eclogues 03 – Humphrey And William (Robert Southey Poems)
(Time, Noon.) HUMPHREY: See'st thou not William that the scorching Sun By this time half his daily race has run? ...
The Mistletoe (A Christmas Tale) (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
A farmer's wife, both young and gay, And fresh as op'ning buds of May; Had taken to herself, a Spouse, ...
On the Way (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
Shadrach O’Leary (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
O'Leary was a poet-for a while: He sang of many ladies frail and fair, The rolling glory of their golden ...
Rembrandt to Rembrandt (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
Orinda To Lucasia Parting October 1661 At London (Katherine Philips Poems)
Adieu dear object of my Love's excess, And with thee all my hopes of happiness, With the same fervent and ...
Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti Poems)
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
A Dog’s Mistake (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide, He was just a wand'ring mongrel from ...
The Time I’ve Lost (Thomas Moore Poems)
The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my ...
The Time I’ve Lost In Wooing (Thomas Moore Poems)
The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my ...
An Ancient Gesture (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: Penelope did this too. And more than ...
Smoke (Philip Levine Poems)
Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? It was. The city was vanishing before noon or was it earlier ...
Late Moon (Philip Levine Poems)
2 a.m. December, and still no mon rising from the river. My mother home from the beer garden stands before ...