The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,In ev'ry age works miracles a store;Can Catos change to male coquets at ...
Poems about undressing (17 Poems)
The Plague Colemn (Jaroslav Seifert Poems)
To the four corners of the earth they turn:the four demobilized knights of the heavenly host.And the four corners of ...
December (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The house of December was all aglow, Each room was jolly and red; There were bulgy stockings ranged in a row, And holly ...
Vision (Harry Crosby Poems)
I exchange eyes with the Mad Queenthe mirror crashes against my faceand bursts into a thousand sunsall over the city ...
The Admonition: To Betsey (Helen Parry Eden Poems)
Remember, on your knees,The men who guard your slumbers-And guard a house in a still streetOf drifting leaves and drifting ...
A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul – August (George MacDonald Poems)
1.SO shall abundant entrance me be givenInto the truth, my life's inheritance.Lo! as the sun shoots straight from out his ...
The Bag (George Herbert Poems)
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
Real Swimming (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I saw him in the distance, as the train went speeding by,A shivery little fellow standing in the sun to ...
Repentance (George Herbert Poem)
Lord, I confess my sin is great; Great is my sin. Oh! gently treat With thy quick flow'r, thy momentany ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
Valentine (Carol Ann Duffy Poem)
Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown ...
Snapshot of a Lump (Kelli Russell Agodon Poem)
I imagine Nice and topless beaches, women smoking and reading novels in the sun. I pretend I am comfortable undressing ...
When I heard at the Close of the Day. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, ...
LETTERS TO FRIENDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I Eddie Linden Dear Eddie we've not met Except upon the written page And at your age the wonder Is ...
Eyes Fastened With Pins (Charles Simic Poems)
How much death works, No one knows what a long Day he puts in. The little Wife always alone Ironing ...
Love in the Valley (George Meredith Poems)
Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to ...