The Naulahka (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
Poems about whichever (22 Poems)
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
stylised tulips (Rg Gregory Poem)
stylised tulips - this is what the card says and they have that nineteen-twenties' feel of those bright young things ...
Love does not harm a neighbor (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Something to remember as we go about our day the teaching of our master on the hillside that day The ...
The World Calling (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The World (the wind) calling to us softly or loudly whichever it needs pulling our focus away from our savior ...
Searching for Sea Glass (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hidden amid the rocks, the shells under the seaweeds, the driftwood sitting proudly on the sand Clear, green, brown, or ...
Praying for Their Journey (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Prayers rising up to our Father's ear in heaven for their journey, their walk That they would find our risen ...
Mephistopheles the Pediatrician (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Short cropped hair of black Full beard of stubble, four days old Gray joining the jagged black shards Menacing, reaching ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
The Contract (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
The Vantage Point (Robert Frost Poem)
If tired of trees I seek again mankind, Well I know where to hie me--in the dawn, To a slope ...
Two Look at Two (Robert Frost Poem)
Love and forgetting might have carried them A little further up the mountain side With night so near, but not ...
Before (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far. God must judge the couple: leave them as ...
You Begin (Margaret Atwood Poem)
You begin this way: this is your hand, this is your eye, this is a fish, blue and flat on ...
Autumn (P. K. Page Poems)
Whoever has no house now will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone Will sit, read, write long ...
Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti Poems)
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
The Lobster (Howard Nemerov Poems)
Here at the Super Duper, in a glass tank Supplied by a rill of cold fresh water Running down a ...
Christo’s (Paul Muldoon Poems)
Two Workmen were carrying a sheet of asbestos down the main street of Dingle; it must have been nailed, at ...
The Beautiful City of Perth (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Beautiful Ancient City of Perth, One of the grandest on the earth, With your stately mansions and streets so clean, ...
Virgule (Thomas Lux Poems)
What I love about this little leaning mark is how it divides without divisiveness. The left or bottom side prying ...
One Size Fits All: A Critical Essay (David Lehman Poems)
Though Already Perhaps However. On one level, Among other things, With And with. In a similar vein To be sure: ...