Cosmopolitan (Allen Ginsberg Poems)
Stand up against governments, against God.Stay irresponsible.Say only what we know & imagine.Absolutes are Coercion.Change is absolute.Ordinary mind includes eternal ...
Poems about vowels (21 Poems)
Accent Conscious (C J Dennis Poems)
Trouble brews along the border for the word has got around That blokes an' coves an' coots must mind their ...
Black Laughter (Genevieve Taggard Poems)
Harsh, unuttered thunderStood like a stone wallAbove the marsh's silver line.Crooked cranes, white as lightning-Flattened for an instant, flashing from ...
Song: Further than Hoy (George Mackay Brown Poems)
Further than Hoythe mermaids whisperthrough ivory shellsa-babble with vowelsFurther than historythe legends thickenthe buried brokenvases and columnsFurther than fameare fleas ...
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme (Ben Jonson Poem)
Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgment ...
Plutonian Ode (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
Cosmopolitan Greetings (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
To Struga Festival Golden Wreath Laureates & International Bards 1986 Stand up against governments, against God. Stay irresponsible. Say only ...
Favrile (Mark Doty Poem)
Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...
The First Dream (Billy Collins Poem)
The Wind is ghosting around the house tonight and as I lean against the door of sleep I begin to ...
Pan (Michael Burch Poem)
... Among the shadows of the groaning elms, amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves ... ... Once there were ...
Hospital For Defectives (Thomas Blackburn Poem)
By your unnumbered charities A miracle disclose, Lord of the Images, whose love The eyelids and the rose Takes for ...
Letter to an Archaeologist (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht; a scalp so often scalded with boiling water that ...
A Letter to a Live Poet (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Sir, since the last Elizabethan died, Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse, Blind with much light, passed to the light ...
The Star-Apple Kingdom (Derek Walcott Poems)
There were still shards of an ancient pastoral in those shires of the island where the cattle drank their pools ...
Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon (Duncan Campbell Scott Poems)
Here in the midnight, where the dark mainland and island Shadows mingle in shadow deeper, profounder, Sing we the hymns ...
A Young Child And His Pregnant Mother (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
At four years Nature is mountainous, Mysterious, and submarine. Even A city child knows this, hearing the subway's Rumor underground. ...
The Pigeons Of St. Marks (Robert William Service Poems)
Something's wrong in Pigeon-land; 'Tisn't as it used to be, When the pilgrim, corn in hand, Courted us with laughing ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Anne Pennington (Vasko Popa Poems)
Until her last breath she enlarges Her Oxford house Built in Slavonic Vowels and consonants She polishes the corner-stones Until ...
Morning Song (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its ...
Lion & Honeycomb (Howard Nemerov Poems)
He didn't want to do it with skill, He'd had enough of skill. If he never saw Another villanelle, it ...