The King Of Sardis (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
Poems about webbed (21 Poems)
A Garden Idyl (George Meredith Poems)
With sagest craft Arachne workedHer web, and at a corner lurked,Awaiting what should plump her soon,To case it in the ...
The Witches’ Brew (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Perched on a dead volcanic pile,Now charted as a submerged peak,Near to a moon-washed coral isle,A hundred leagues from Mozambique,Three ...
Grapes (D H Lawrence Poems)
SO many fruits come from rosesFrom the rose of all rosesFrom the unfolded roseRose of all the world.Admit that apples ...
Sister Songs-An Offering To Two Sisters – The Proem (Francis Thompson Poems)
Shrewd winds and shrill--were these the speech of May?A ragged, slag-grey sky--invested so,Mary's spoilt nursling! wert thou wont to go?Or ...
The Rider (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
I draw a-near you in your sleeping city,Who, in mine ancient freedom,Knew neither loss nor scant;Who hunted even as he ...
Forefathers (Edmund Blunden Poems)
Here they went with smock and crook,Toiled in the sun, lolled in the shade,Here they mudded out the brookAnd here ...
A Dark World (Edith Joy Scovell Poems)
"Under the pent-house branches the eight swans have come,Into the black-green water round the roots of the yew;Like a beam ...
The Swans (Clifford Dyment Poems)
Midstream they met. Challenger and champion,They fought a war for honourFierce, sharp, but with no honour:Each had a simple aim ...
The Mountain (Geoffrey Dutton Poems)
The mountain he flew over did not want him,Loose with age, the shaggy cliffs looked downWhile webbed in fire the ...
Changeful with glow and chequered shade (Alec de Candole Poems)
Changeful with glow and chequered shade, a sight Now gloom'd with grief, and now with joy elate, How strange, how ...
A Charm (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for ...
The Black Swan (Randall Jarrell Poem)
When the swans turned my sister into a swan I would go to the lake, at night, from milking: The ...
Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem (Bob Hicok Poem)
My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers of my palms tell me so. Never argue with ...
The Marionettes Of Distant Masters (Russell Edson Poem)
A pianist dreams that he's hired by a wrecking company to ruin a piano with his fingers . . . ...
Portrait of a Boy (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
After the whipping he crawled into bed, Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. How funny uncle's hat had ...
His Wife, The Painter (Charles Bukowski Poems)
There are sketches on the walls of men and women and ducks, and outside a large green bus swerves through ...
Poem In October (Dylan Thomas Poems)
It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled ...
Saturday Night in the Parthenon (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
Tiny green birds skate over the surface of the room. A naked girl prepares a basin with steaming water, And ...
To A Sad Daughter (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
All night long the hockey pictures gaze down at you sleeping in your tracksuit. Belligerent goalies are your ideal. Threats ...
The Flower of Mending (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(To Eudora, after I had had certain dire adventures.) When Dragon-fly would fix his wings, When Snail would patch his ...