Studies For Two Heads (James Russell Lowell Poems)
ISome sort of heart I know is hers,-- I chanced to feel her pulse one night;A brain she has that never ...
Animals Poems (403 Poems)
Elegy I (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenlypressed me against ...
Cito Pede Preterit Aetas (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
A mellower light doth Sol afford,His meridian glare has pass'dAnd the trees on the broad and sloping swardTheir length'ning shadows ...
A Rainy Day (Hattie Howard Poems)
Oh, what a blessed interval A rainy day may be! No lightning flash nor tempest roar, But one incessant, steady pour Of dripping melody; When ...
An Explanation of America: A Love of Death (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Imagine a child from Virginia or New HampshireAlone on the prairie eighty years agoOr more, one afternoon-the shaggy peltOf grasses, ...
De Rerum Virtute (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
I.Here is the skull of a man: a man's thoughts and emotionsHave moved under the thin bone vault like cloudsUnder ...
The Zucca (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.Summer was dead and Autumn was expiring,And infant Winter laughed upon the landAll cloudlessly and cold;--when I, desiringMore in this ...
In Camp (Camp-ey) (Jibanananda Das Poems)
Here on the edge of the forest I pitched camp.All night long in pleasant southern breezesBy the moon's lightI listen ...
The Ballad of the Rousabout (Henry Lawson Poems)
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land-or none-I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I'm-a woman's son;I came from ...
To The Museum Committee (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
O ye in power, thus placed to ministerTo every pressing local, social claim,Of those who gave you this authority,Trusting you ...
The Bronze David Of Donatello (Randall Jarrell Poems)
A sword in his right hand, a stone in his left hand,He is naked. Shod and naked. Hatted and naked.The ...
The Jungle Pow-Wow (Jessie Imbrie Miller Poems)
"All the animals were gathered bythe waters of the Nile." (Jessie Imbrie Miller)
Central Park Zoo (Lee Harwood Poems)
for MarianLooking at the zoo the great white parkof a misty winter's afternoon "You're great!and I love you for it"All ...
Before A Statue Of Buddha (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O Buddha, of the mystic smileAnd downcast, dreamful eyes,To whom unnumbered sacred shrinesAnd gilded statues rise,Whose fanes are filled with ...
Loveliness (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. When I fare forth to kiss the eyes of Spring, On ways, which arch gold sunbeams and pearl buds Embraced, two whispers ...
Judging Distances (Henry Reed Poems)
Not only how far away, but the way that you say itIs very important. Perhaps You may never getThe knack ...
To Sally (John Quincy Adams Poems)
The man in righteousness arrayed, A pure and blameless liver, Needs not the keen Toledo blade, Nor venom-freighted quiver. What ...
Myth Of The Blaze (George Oppen Poems)
night-sky bird's worldto know to know in my life to knowwhat I have said to myselfthe dark to escape in brilliant highwaysof the night ...
Green Fields (William Stanley Merwin Poems)
By this part of the century few are left who believein the animals for they are not there in the ...
The Dead Cat. (Patchie: In Memoriam) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Yet — Patchie still lives! — We can hope and believe it,— The poor little cat to good Harry so dear:It ...
Loneliness Of Cities (Jorge Carerra Andrade Poems)
Without knowing my number,enclosed by walls and borders,I walk around with a prisoner's moonand perpetual shadow chained to my ankle.Living ...
Autumn (Nikolai Zabolotsky Poems)
When day is done and nature doesn't chooseThe light to her own taste,The spacious halls of autumn woodsStand open to ...
The Blessed (English Translation) (Gertrud Kolmar Poems)
I am in the darkness and alone.In front of me stands the door.When I open it, I am bathed in ...
Reminiscences A Darwin (Henri Cazalis Poems)
Je sens un monde en moi de confuses pensees,Je sens obscurement que j'ai vecu toujours,Que j'ai longtemps erre dans les ...
White Heron (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
What lifts the heron leaning on the airI praise without a name. A crouch, a flare,a long stroke through the ...
The Blind Man And The Elephant (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
It was six men of Indostan, to learning much inclined,who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were ...
Tasting the Earth (James Oppenheim Poems)
In a dark hour, tasting the Earth.As I lay on my couch in the muffled night, and the rain lashed ...
The Horse’s Face (Nikolai Zabolotsky Poems)
Animals don't sleep. In the dark after nightfallThey stand over the world like a stone wall.The cow's sloping headRustles its ...
The Bad Old Days (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
The summer of nineteen eighteenI read The Jungle and TheResearch Magnificent. That fallMy father died and my auntTook me to ...
The Author To His Body On Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80 (Howard Nemerov Poems)
"There's never a dull moment in the human body." -The Insight LadyDear old equivocal and closest friend,Grand Vizier to a weak ...