Insomnia (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
THIN are the night-skirts left behindBy daybreak hours that onward creep,And thin, alas! the shred of sleepThat wavers with the ...
Poems about wavers (21 Poems)
Haunted Seas (Cale Young Rice Poems)
A gleaming glassy ocean, Under a sky of gray; A tide that dreams of motion, ...
The Red Lacquer Music-Stand (Amy Lowell Poem)
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
The Cross-Roads (Amy Lowell Poem)
A bullet through his heart at dawn. On the table a letter signed with a woman's name. A wind that ...
A Roxbury Garden (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Hoops Blue and pink sashes, Criss-cross shoes, Minna and Stella run out into the garden To play at hoop. ...
Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
The Curtain (Hayden Carruth Poem)
Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing. One can hear it always. Earthquake, starvation, ...
Heritage (Countee Cullen Poem)
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
Love in Twilight (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 07: Two Lovers: Overtones (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple, Two lovers blow together like music blowing: And the crowd dissolves ...
The Aged Pilot Man (Mark Twain Poems)
On the Erie Canal, it was, All on a summer's day, I sailed forth with my parents Far away to ...
The Progress of Spring (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
THE groundflame of the crocus breaks the mould, Fair Spring slides hither o'er the Southern sea, Wavers on her thin ...
Rapids at Night (Duncan Campbell Scott Poems)
Here at the roots of the mountains, Between the sombre legions of cedars and tamaracks, The rapids charge the ravine: ...
White Shoulders (Carl Sandburg Poems)
YOUR white shoulders I remember And your shrug of laughter. Low laughter Shaken slow From your white shoulders. Where the ...
From The Shore (Carl Sandburg Poems)
A LONE gray bird, Dim-dipping, far-flying, Alone in the shadows and grandeurs and tumults Of night and the sea And ...
Flux (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SAND of the sea runs red Where the sunset reaches and quivers. Sand of the sea runs yellow Where the ...
Kin (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BROTHER, I am fire Surging under the ocean floor. I shall never meet you, brother-- Not for years, anyhow; Maybe ...
Octaves (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
Between going and staying the day wavers, (Octavio Paz Poems)
Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay ...
Hymns Of The Marshes. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...