Duino Elegies: The First Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly pressed ...
Animals Poems (403 Poems)
Girl’s Lament (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
In the years when we were all children, this inclining to be alone so much was gentle; others' time passed ...
Two Songs (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1. Sex, as they harshly call it, I fell into this morning at ten o'clock, a drizzling hour of traffic ...
John Gorham (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Tell me what you're doing over here, John Gorham, Sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when you're not; Make ...
Irkalla’s White Caves (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
I believe that a young woman Is standing in a circle of lions In the other side of the sky. ...
Essay on Man (Alexander Pope Poems)
The First Epistle Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let ...
What We Want (Linda Pastan Poems)
What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an ...
Wind Chill (Linda Pastan Poems)
The door of winter is frozen shut, and like the bodies of long extinct animals, cars lie abandoned wherever the ...
Tulips (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in I am ...
Getting There (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How far is it? How far is it now? The gigantic gorilla interior Of the wheels move, they appall me ...
Lyonnesse (Sylvia Plath Poems)
No use whistling for Lyonnesse! Sea-cold, sea-cold it certainly is. Take a look at the white, high berg on his ...
Meditatio (Ezra Pound Poems)
When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs I am compelled to conclude That man is the superior animal. ...
In the Droving Days (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
"Only a pound," said the auctioneer, "Only a pound; and I'm standing here Selling this animal, gain or loss -- ...
The Scapegoat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
Gentleman Alone (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The young maricones and the horny muchachas, The big fat widows delirious from insomnia, The young wives thirty hours' pregnant, ...
Amateurs of Heaven (Howard Nemerov Poems)
Two lovers to a midnight meadow came High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand Like effigies and ...
Gentleness Stirred (Nimah Nawwab Poems)
Striding through the gates of learning, Wrapped warmly in her black abaya, Modestly cloaked head to toe, Not a hair ...
Bearhug (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight I yell ok. Finish something I'm doing, then something else, walk slowly ...
Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
Since my wife was born she must have eaten the equivalent of two-thirds of the original garden of Eden. Not ...
My Bed is Covered Yellow (Peter Orlovsky Poems)
My bed is covered yellow - Oh Sun, I sit on you Oh golden field I lay on you Oh ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
The New Hieroglyphics (Les Murray Poems)
In the World language, sometimes called Airport Road, a thinks balloon with a gondola under it is a symbol for ...
The Quality Of Sprawl (Les Murray Poems)
Sprawl is the quality of the man who cut down his Rolls-Royce into a farm utility truck, and sprawl is ...
The Rebel Surprise Near Tamai (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 22nd of March, in the year 1885, That the Arabs rushed like a mountain torrent in full ...
Modern Love XXX: What Are We First (George Meredith Poems)
What are we first? First, animals; and next Intelligences at a leap; on whom Pale lies the distant shadow of ...
Ghoti (Heather McHugh Poems)
The gh comes from rough, the o from women's, and the ti from unmentionables--presto: there's the perfect English instance of ...
An Expostulation to Lord King (Thomas Moore Poems)
How can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all The Peers of realm about cheapening their corn, When you ...
Moon Fishing (Lisel Mueller Poems)
When the moon was full they came to the water. some with pitchforks, some with rakes, some with sieves and ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...