After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (Galway Kinnell Poem)
For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman ...
Poems about wrench (21 Poems)
Cruisers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
The Conundrum of the Workshops (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the ...
The Whipping (Robert Hayden Poem)
The old woman across the way is whipping the boy again and shouting to the neighborhood her goodness and his ...
False Notions, Fears, And Other Things Of Wood (James A. Emanuel Poem)
Repeatedly, that sturdy stump in me bears up like stone, beneath some ritual I see: the blinding axe swings up, ...
Not any more to be lacked — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Not any more to be lacked -- Not any more to be known -- Denizen of Significance For a span ...
Autumn Love (Li Ching Chao Poem)
Search. Search. Seek. Seek. Cold. Cold. Clear. Clear. Sorrow. Sorrow. Pain. Pain. Hot flashes. Sudden chills. Stabbing pains. Slow agonies. ...
Community Garden (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poem)
I watch the man bend over his patch, a fat gunny sack at his feet. He combs the earth with ...
Men (Maya Angelou Poem)
When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the street. Wino ...
300. Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland (Robert Burns Poems)
WHAT needs this din about the town o' Lon'on, How this new play an' that new sang is comin? Why ...
102. To a Mountain Daisy (Robert Burns Poems)
WEE, modest crimson-tippèd flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender ...
Death In The Arctic (Robert William Service Poems)
I I took the clock down from the shelf; "At eight," said I, "I shoot myself." It lacked a minute ...
Convicts Love Canaries (Robert William Service Poems)
Dick's dead! It was the Polack guard Put powdered glass into his cage When I was tramping round the yard,-- ...
Priscilla (Robert William Service Poems)
Jerry MacMullen, the millionaire, Driving a red-meat bus out there -- How did he win his Croix de Guerre? Bless ...
Prometheus Unbound: Act I (excerpt) (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
SCENE.--A Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the Precipice. Panthea and Ione areseated ...
Sonnet (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Oh for a poet-for a beacon bright To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, ...
Ainsi Va le Monde (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
Love Poem (John Frederick Nims Poems)
My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases, At whose quick touch all glasses chip and ring, Whose palms are bulls ...
Sonnet 21 (John Milton Poems)
XXI Cyriac, whose grandsire on the royal bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes ...
Sonnet 18 (John Milton Poems)
XVIII Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of Brittish Themis, with no mean applause Pronounc't and in his volumes ...
To Baynard Taylor (Sidney Lanier Poems)
To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O'erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, ...