At a Certain Age (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers. White clouds refused to accept them, and the wind ...
Cats Poems (680 Poems)
Peleg Poague (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Horses and men are just alike. There was my stallion, Billy Lee, Black as a cat and trim as a ...
The Steeple-Jack (Marianne Moore Poems)
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
Peter (Marianne Moore Poems)
Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away-- the detached first ...
A Quick One Before I Go (David Lehman Poems)
There comes a time in every man's life when he thinks: I have never had a single original thought in ...
Remo: “Drink, Drink, Drink” (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
At Quattro Gatti, she is the poet-in-residence: In Barcelona, Piccasso started here, painting A humble sketch of a picket-white fence. ...
Central Park Violence (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Central Park: Water Fight, Flight, and Tears June 1 2001, N.Y. C., U.S.A. (1) From the five boroughs of N.Y.C., ...
Miss Loo (Walter de la Mare Poems)
When thin-strewn memory I look through, I see most clearly poor Miss Loo, Her tabby cat, her cage of birds, ...
Silence (Marianne Moore Poems)
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass ...
Tortoise Shout (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I thought he was dumb, said he was dumb, Yet I've heard him cry. First faint scream, Out of life's ...
I Sing The Body Electric (Philip Levine Poems)
People sit numbly at the counter waiting for breakfast or service. Today it's Hartford, Connecticut more than twenty-five years after ...
Once (Philip Levine Poems)
Hungry and cold, I stood in a doorway on Delancey Street in 1946 as the rain came down. The worst ...
A Theory Of Prosody (Philip Levine Poems)
When Nellie, my old pussy cat, was still in her prime, she would sit behind me as I wrote, and ...
Red Dust (Philip Levine Poems)
This harpie with dry red curls talked openly of her husband, his impotence, his death, the death of her lover, ...
Picture Postcard From The Other World (Philip Levine Poems)
Since I don't know who will be reading this or even if it will be read, I must invent someone ...
The Grave Of The Kitchen Mouse (Philip Levine Poems)
The stone says "Coors" The gay carpet says "Camels" Spears of dried grass The little sticks the children gathered The ...
The Distant Winter (Philip Levine Poems)
from an officer's diary during the last war I The sour daylight cracks through my sleep-caked lids. "Stephan! Stephan!" The ...
The Mysterious Cat (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A chant for a children's pantomime dance, suggested by a picture painted by George Mather Richards. I saw a proud, ...
Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(What Grandpa told the Children) The moon? It is a griffin's egg, Hatching to-morrow night. And how the little boys ...
The Booker Washington Trilogy (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...