City That Does Not Sleep (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody. Nobody is asleep. The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl ...
Discovery & Invention Poems (190 Poems)
One Train May Hide Another (Kenneth Koch Poem)
(sign at a railroad crossing in Kenya) In a poem, one line may hide another line, As at a crossing, ...
The Song of the Old Guard (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Army Reform-.After Boer war "The Army of a Dream"-Traffics and Discoveries. Know this, my brethren, Heaven is clear And all ...
The Silent Shepherds (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
What's the best life for a man? --Never to have been born, sings the choros, and the next best Is ...
The Broken Balance (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain Above the deep river-canyon. There was a little cataract ...
Sonnet (II) (George Herbert Poem)
Sure Lord, there is enough in thee to dry Oceans of Ink ; for, as the Deluge did Cover the ...
Love (I) (George Herbert Poem)
Immortal love, authour of this great frame, Sprung from that beautie which can never fade; How hath man parcel'd out ...
Sin’s Round (George Herbert Poems)
Sorry I am, my God, sorry I am, That my offences course it in a ring. My thoughts are working ...
The Pearl (George Herbert Poem)
The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one, sold ...
The Guardian Angel Of The Private Life (Jorie Graham Poem)
All this was written on the next day's list. On which the busyness unfurled its cursive roots, pale but effective, ...
Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College (Thomas Gray Poem)
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade; ...
Challenged to Change (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our lives a journey of discovery, of wonder challenged to change our focus in life To leave beyond the temporal ...
Finding New Voices (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Seeking other witnesses testifying to God's love proclaiming the good news of Christ's rising for us Finding new voices others ...
After the Chaos (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
After the chaos, the blizzard of wrapping, boxes, bows toys and games and clothes being torn from their slumber the ...
The Speed of Creation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The slow calving of a glacier, the sudden eruption of a once dormant volcano The birth of a rainbow at ...
Discovery (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
How aptly named, is discovery, the information the case of the Division Page after page, a catalog of surprises, discoveries ...
Seeing Their Hearing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Words cannot describe the wonder of discovery the play and banter preschoolers and kindergarten learning exploring, awakening to sound and ...
A Walk in the Woods (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
sitting at the end of the dinner thinking of a walk in the woods just before fall not in the ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Gascon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sun As soon as by chance I detect That ...
Maple (Robert Frost Poem)
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
Mr. Mistoffelees (T. S. Eliot Poem)
You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees! The Original Conjuring Cat-- (There can be no doubt about that). Please listen to ...
Sonnet XXXIV: Marvel Not, Love (Michael Drayton Poem)
To Admiration Marvel not, Love, though I thy power admire, Ravish'd a world beyond the farthest thought, And knowing more ...
Sonnet I: Like an Advent’rous Seafarer (Michael Drayton Poems)
Like an advent'rous seafarer am I, Who hath some long and dang'rous voyage been, And, call'd to tell of his ...
Longfellow (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Where there were many ...
This Consciousness that is aware (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself ...
How far is it to Heaven? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
How far is it to Heaven? As far as Death this way -- Of River or of Ridge beyond Was ...
When I Close My Eyes (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
When I close my eyes I cannot reconstruct your face but the three-dimensional solidity or you bursts through the tissues ...
Desires that you can only tame to know (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...