For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen (Harold Hart Crane Poems)
"And so we may arrive by Talmud skillAnd profane Greek to raise the building upOf Helen's house against the Ismaelite,King ...
Baseball Poems (20 Poems)
The Face On The Barroom Floor (Hugh Antoine D Arcy Poems)
'TWAS a balmy summer evening, and a goodly crowd was there,Which well-nigh filled Joe's barroom, on the corner of the ...
Social Security (Terence Winch Poems)
No one is safe. The streets are unsafe.even in the safety zones, it's not safe.Even safe sex is not safe.Even ...
The Things (Donald Hall Poems)
When I walk in my house I see pictures,bought long ago, framed and hanging-de Kooning, Arp, Laurencin, Henry Moore-that I've ...
Cadet Grey – Canto II (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
When They’ve Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
Though you're not exactly blue,Yet you don't feel like you doIn the winter, or the long hot summer days.For your ...
When Father Played Baseball (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
The smell of arnica is strong, And mother's time is spentIn rubbing father's arms and back With burning ...
France To Columbia (Abner Cosens Poems)
Columbia, my sister, Republic great and free, When Liberty was threatened I looked in vain ...
When Pa Counts (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Pa's not so very big or brave; he can't lift weights like Uncle Jim; His hands are soft like little ...
The Complacent Slacker (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
When he was just a lad in school,He used to sit around and foolAnd watch the clock and say:"I can't ...
The World And Bud (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
If we were all alike, what a dreadful world 'twould be!No one would know which one was you or which ...
The Good Little Boy (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Once there was a boy who neverTore his clothes, or hardly ever,Never made his sister mad,Never whipped fer bein' bad,Never ...
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 ...
Unwanted (Edward Field Poem)
The poster with my picture on it Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office. I stand by ...
Birches (Robert Frost Poem)
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think ...
The Sudden Light And The Trees (Stephen Dunn Poem)
My neighbor was a biker, a pusher, a dog and wife beater. In bad dreams I killed him and once, ...
True Story (Charles Bukowski Poems)
they found him walking along the freeway all red in front he had taken a rusty tin can and cut ...
Enthusiasm (Charles Webb Poems)
"Don't overdo it," Dad yelled, watching me Play shortstop, collect stamps and shells, Roll on the grass laughing until I ...
Baseball and Writing (Marianne Moore Poems)
Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what ...
The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball (Thomas Lux Poems)
each day mowed and mowed his lawn, his dry quarter acre, the machine slicing a wisp from each blade's tip. ...