WINDSONG (Barry Tebb Poems)
I drowse and dream in this sleeping house Fynbos the cat purring by the curtain Suriya the sun god sharing ...
Cats Poems (680 Poems)
THE PHILOSOPHERS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Lavender musk rose from the volume I was reading through, The college crest impressed in gold, tooled gold lettering on ...
The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon (J. R. R. Tolkien Poems)
There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so ...
The Holy Grail (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called ...
Happy As The Day Is Long (James Tate Poems)
I take the long walk up the staircase to my secret room. Today's big news: they found Amelia Earhart's shoe, ...
Thinking Ahead To Possible Options And A Worst-Case Scenario (James Tate Poems)
I swerved to avoid hitting a squirrel in the center of the road and that's when the deer came charging ...
The Break Away (Anne Sexton Poems)
Your daisies have come on the day of my divorce: the courtroom a cement box, a gas chamber for the ...
A Child’s Christmas In Wales (Dylan Thomas Poems)
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
A Curse Against Elegies (Anne Sexton Poems)
Oh, love, why do we argue like this? I am tired of all your pious talk. Also, I am tired ...
That Day (Anne Sexton Poems)
This is the desk I sit at and this is the desk where I love you too much and this ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1 (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment A (Christopher Smart Poems)
Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every ...
Jubilate Agno (excerpt) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...
from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving ...
Cleopatra (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
HER mouth is fragrant as a vine, A vine with birds in all its boughs; Serpent and scarab for a ...
A Case Of Murder (Vernon Scannell Poems)
They should not have left him there alone, Alone that is except for the cat. He was only nine, not ...
The Abortion (Anne Sexton Poems)
Somebody who should have been born is gone. Just as the earth puckered its mouth, each bud puffing out from ...
Cockroach (Anne Sexton Poems)
Roach, foulest of creatures, who attacks with yellow teeth and an army of cousins big as shoes, you are lumps ...
The Something (Charles Simic Poems)
Here come my night thoughts On crutches, Returning from studying the heavens. What they thought about Stayed the same, Stayed ...
God’s Judgment on a Wicked Bishop (Robert Southey Poems)
The summer and autumn had been so wet, That in winter the corn was growing yet, 'Twas a piteous sight ...
Poem (Old man in the crystal morning after snow) (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Old man in the crystal morning after snow, Your throat swathed in a muffler, your bent Figure building the snow ...
Jaloppy Joy (Robert William Service Poems)
Past ash cans and alley cats, Fetid. overflowing gutters, Leprous lines of rancid flats Where the frowsy linen flutters; With ...
Kail Yard Bard (Robert William Service Poems)
A very humble pen I ply Beneath a cottage thatch; And in the sunny hours I try To till my ...
Mazie’s Ghost (Robert William Service Poems)
In London City I evade For charming Burlington Arcade - For thee in youth I met a maid By name ...
Talking To Little Birdies (Charles Simic Poems)
Not a peep out of you now After the bedlam early this morning. Are you begging pardon of me Hidden ...
My White Mouse (Robert William Service Poems)
At dusk I saw a craintive mouse That sneaked and stole around the house; At first I took it for ...
Bill The Bomber (Robert William Service Poems)
The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-woolly mist; The Captain kept a-lookin' at the watch upon his wrist; And ...