Towards The Imminent Days (Section 4) (Les Murray Poems)
In my aunt's house, the milk jug's beaded crochet cover tickles the ear. We've eaten boiled things with butter. Pie ...
Daughters Poems (1453 Poems)
John Rouat the Fisherman (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Margaret Simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of Ayr, With a comely figure, and face of ...
The Wreck of the Steamer Stella (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899, Which will be remembered for a very long ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
The Quarry (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea I met a sacred elephant, snow-white. Upon his back a huge ...
Night Song (Lisel Mueller Poems)
Among rocks, I am the loose one, among aarows, I am the heart, among daughters, I am the recluse, among ...
Alive Together (Lisel Mueller Poems)
Speaking of marvels, I am alive together with you, when I might have been alive with anyone under the sun, ...
Atalanta’s Race (William Morris Poems)
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
Lois Spears (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Here lies the body of Lois Spears, Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Willard Fluke, Wife of Cyrus Spears, Mother of ...
Daniel M’Cumber (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When I went to the city, Mary McNeely, I meant to return for you, yes I did. But Laura, my ...
Henry Phipps (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was the Sunday school superintendent, The dummy president of the wagon works And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas ...
Isa Nutter (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis, And Doc Hill called it leucaemia -- But I know what brought me here: ...
We May Roam Through This World (Thomas Moore Poems)
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast, Who but sips of a sweet, and then ...
The Sea-Child (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
Into the world you sent her, mother, Fashioned her body of coral and foam, Combed a wave in her hair's ...
Curriculum Vitae (Lisel Mueller Poems)
1992 1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea. 2) In the year of my birth, ...
Why We Tell Stories (Lisel Mueller Poems)
For Linda Foster I Because we used to have leaves and on damp days our muscles feel a tug, painful ...
Invocation To The Muses (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The Naional Institute of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New ...
Lucinda Matlock (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I went to the dances at Chandlerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in ...
John Horace Burleson (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I won the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I was twenty-five. I ...
Cooney Potter (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I inherited forty acres from my Father And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters From dawn ...
Lilian Stewart (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins, Born in a cottage near the grist-mill, Reared in the mansion there on ...
Aaron Hatfield (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Better than granite, Spoon River, Is the memory-picture you keep of me Standing before the pioneer men and women There ...
Indignation Jones (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
You would not believe, would you That I came from good Welsh stock? That I was purer blooded than the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
From ‘Arcades’ (John Milton Poems)
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...