American Beauty (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
Poems about wraith (21 Poems)
Natural Theology (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Primitive I ate my fill of a whale that died And stranded after a month at sea. . . . ...
“I Have Lived With Shades” (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I I have lived with shades so long, And talked to them so oft, Since forth from cot and croft ...
Yvytot (Eugene Field Poem)
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
Phantasmagoria CANTO III ( Scarmoges ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 03: Palimpsest: A Deceitful Portrait (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
Mule Song (A. R. Ammons Poem)
Silver will lie where she lies sun-out, whatever turning the world does, longeared in her ashen, earless, floating world: indifferent ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
39. Ballad on the American War (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN Guilford good our pilot stood An' did our hellim thraw, man, Ae night, at tea, began a plea, Within ...
Oh (Anne Sexton Poems)
It is snowing and death bugs me as stubborn as insomnia. The fierce bubbles of chalk, the little white lesions ...
Doubt (Sara Teasdale Poems)
My soul lives in my body's house, And you have both the house and her- But sometimes she is less ...
The Ghosts (Robert William Service Poems)
Said Lenin's ghost to Stalin's ghost: "Mate with me in the Tomb; Then day by day the rancid host May ...
Fancy Dress (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Some Brave, awake in you to-night, Knocked at your heart: an eagle's flight Stirred in the feather on your head. ...
Conrad in Twilight (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
Conrad, Conrad, aren't you old To sit so late in your mouldy garden? And I think Conrad knows it well, ...
The Field of Glory (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
War shook the land where Levi dwelt, And fired the dismal wrath he felt, That such a doom was ever ...
Late Summer (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
(ALCAICS) Confused, he found her lavishing feminine Gold upon clay, and found her inscrutable; And yet she smiled. Why, then, ...
An Invocation (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
O if it's true that in the night, When rest the living in their havens And liquid rays of lunar ...
Rainy Night (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Ghosts of all my lovely sins, Who attend too well my pillow, Gay the wanton rain begins; Hide the limp ...
Nicotine (Ezra Pound Poems)
Hymn to the Dope Goddess of the murmuring courts, Nicotine, my Nicotine, Houri of the mystic sports, trailing-robed in gabardine, ...
A Florida Ghost. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Down mildest shores of milk-white sand, By cape and fair Floridian bay, Twixt billowy pines -- a surf asleep on ...
Marsh Hymns (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Between Dawn and Sunrise. Were silver pink, and had a soul, Which soul were shy, which shyness might A visible ...