The Old And The New Masters (Randall Jarrell Poem)
About suffering, about adoration, the old masters Disagree. When someone suffers, no one else eats Or walks or opens the ...
Poems about vinegar (23 Poems)
The Sacrifice (George Herbert Poem)
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Since shed or cottage I have none, I sing the more, that thou hast one; To whose glad threshold, and ...
THE INVITATION (Robert Herrick Poem)
To sup with thee thou didst me home invite, And mad'st a promise that mine appetite Should meet and tire, ...
A PANEGYRIC TO SIR LEWIS PEMBERTON (Robert Herrick Poem)
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
Requiem for the Croppies (Seamus Heaney Poem)
The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley... No kitchens on the run, no striking camp... We moved quick and ...
Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the St (Thomas Hardy Poem)
He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there, A type of ...
When the House is Quiet (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
When the house is quiet and the girls are asleep sitting at my desk, at the computer studying, researching a ...
Mr. Brain (Russell Edson Poem)
Mr Brain was a hermit dwarf who liked to eat shellfish off the moon. He liked to go into a ...
The Walrus And The Carpenter (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Tweedledee said to Alice, "You like poetry-" "Ye-es, pretty well-some poetry," Alice said doubtfully. "What shall I repeat to her," ...
Man Listening To Disc (Billy Collins Poem)
This is not bad -- ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft ...
Five Ways To Kill A Man (Edwin Brock Poem)
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
Song (Rupert Brooke Poem)
"Oh! Love," they said, "is King of Kings, And Triumph is his crown. Earth fades in flame before his wings, ...
Five Ways To Kill A Man (Andre Breton Poem)
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Jilted (Sylvia Plath Poems)
My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight ...
The Thin People (Sylvia Plath Poems)
They are always with us, the thin people Meager of dimension as the gray people On a movie-screen. They Are ...
Walking Around (Pablo Neruda Poems)
It so happens I am sick of being a man. And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie ...
Ode To The Artichoke (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The artichoke With a tender heart Dressed up like a warrior, Standing at attention, it built A small helmet Under ...
Ode To an Artichoke (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The artichoke of delicate heart erect in its battle-dress, builds its minimal cupola; keeps stark in its scallop of scales. ...
The Crucifixion of Christ (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Composed, by Special Request, 18th June 1890 Then Pilate, the Roman Governor, took Jesus and scourged Him, And the soldiers ...
The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...
Acid (Roddy Lumsden Poems)
"She was right. I had to find something new. There was only one thing for it." My mother told it ...