Friends Within The Darkness (Charles Bukowski Poems)
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I ...
Criticism Poems (108 Poems)
We Are Made One With What We Touch and See (Oscar Wilde Poem)
We are resolved into the supreme air, We are made one with what we touch and see, With our heart’s ...
Ego Dominus Tuus (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still A lamp burns on ...
How We Are (Lisa Zaran Poems)
Pale scrapings of people with lipstick ringed glasses and cigarettes burning, and laughter trickling up and down their knotty throats. ...
Verses On A Butterfly (Joseph Warton Poems)
Fair Child of Sun and Summer! we behold With eager eyes thy wings bedropp'd with gold; The purple spots that ...
Panthea (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, From passionate pain to deadlier delight, - I am too young to ...
Says. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right. 2 I say nourish a ...
Lines from (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
I'd rather have my verses win A place in common people's hearts, Who, toiling through the strife and din Of ...
Proclamation Without Pretension (Tristan Tzara Poems)
Art is going to sleep for a new world to be born "ART"-parrot word-replaced by DADA, PLESIOSAURUS, or handkerchief The ...
OXFORD ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY’ (Barry Tebb Poems)
To Simon Jenner NO ARMITAGE (I'd like to see his rage) NO DUHIG (one dig long overdue) NO GREENLAW (M ...
August 8th (Anne Sexton Poems)
And do not be indiscreet or unconventional. Play it safe. Listen here. I've never played it safe in spite of ...
The Errand (Anne Sexton Poems)
I've been going right on, page by page, since we last kissed, two long dolls in a cage, two hunger-mongers ...
The Place of the Damned (Jonathan Swift Poems)
All folks who pretend to religion and grace, Allow there's a HELL, but dispute of the place: But, if HELL ...
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (Adrienne Rich Poems)
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips. The grammar turned and attacked me. Themes, written under duress. Emptiness of the notations. ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
Bohemia (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Authors and actors and artists and such Never know nothing, and never know much. Sculptors and singers and those of ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
The Road to Success is Always Under Construction (Poem)
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Life is not no much a matter of position ...