Picasso’s Promenade (Jacques Prevert Poems)
On a very round plate of real porcelainan apple posesface to face with ita painter of realityvainly tries to paintthe ...
Drawing & Painting Poems (641 Poems)
The Strong Heroic Line (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
FRIENDS of the Muse, to you of right belongThe first staid footsteps of my square-toed song;Full well I know the ...
Mountain Sonnets (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HERE let me pause by the lone eagle's nest,And breathe the ...
The Dismissed. (George Pope Morris Poems)
The wing of my spirit is broken, My day-star of hope has declined;For a month not a word have I spoken That's ...
Thanksgiving Turkey (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
Valleys lay in sunny vapor,And a radiance mild was shedFrom each tree that like a taperAt a feast stood. Then ...
The Beautiful City (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The Beautiful City! ForeverIts rapturous praises resound;We fain would behold it-- but neverA glimpse of its dory is found:We slacken ...
A Picture (Jared Barhite Poems)
I sat by the farm-house window When the winter's sun was low, And looked on the clear horizon O'er fields white-crested with snow. A ...
To The Painter Preparing To Draw M.M.H. (James Shirley Poems)
Be not too forward, painter; 'tisMore for thy fame, and art, to missAll other faces, than come nearThe Lady, that ...
Dialogue of Myrddin and Taliesin (Myrddin Wyllt Poems)
Myrddin:How sad with me, how said,Cedfyl and Cadfan are fallen!The slaughter was terrible,Shields shattered and bloody.Taliesin:I saw Maelgwn battling—The host ...
A Song Of Similies (Phanuel Bacon Poems)
I've Thought; the fair Clarissa cries:What is it like, Sir?-Like your Eyes.'Tis like a Chair-'Tis like a Key-'Tis like a ...
The War After The War (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
I. Yonder, with eyes that tears, not distance, dim, With ears the wide world's thickness cannot daunt, We see tumultuous miseries that haunt The ...
Paintings (Marin Sorescu Poems)
All the museums are afraid of me,Because each time I spend a whole dayIn front of a paintingThe next day ...
A Lesson In Drawing (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
My son places his paint box in front of meand asks me to draw a bird for him.Into the color ...
Landscapes (Lee Harwood Poems)
The ridges either side of the valleywere covered in dark pine forest.The ploughed hill sides were red,and the pastures were ...
January, 1795. (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
PAVEMENT slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving. Lofty mansions, warm and spacious ...
Franciscus De Verulamio Sic Cogitavit (James Russell Lowell Poems)
That's a rather bold speech, my Lord Bacon, For, indeed, is't so easy to knowJust how much we from others have ...
To A Deaf And Dumb Lady (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
I wish - 't is no concern of mine,But yet I wish that you would tryThe painter's brush, and trace ...
To A Person (KotaroTakamura Poems)
How I dread the thoughtOf you leaving--Like the bearing of fruit before blooming,Like the sprouting of seed before sowing,Like summer ...
Uncle Joe’s Hail Columbia (Henry Clay Work Poems)
Uncle Joe comes home a singing, Hail, Columby!Glorious times de Lord is bringin' — Now let me die.Fling the chains into the ...
Ars Victrix (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
YES; when the ways oppose- When the hard means rebel, Fairer the work out-grows,- More potent far the spell. O ...
Old Government House, Windsor, N.S.W. (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
A HUNDRED years and more have run their courseSince settlers saw the River Hawkesbury,And came to till the lands its ...
On Leaving His Wife in Ihami (II) (Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro Poems)
By Kara's cape(what sea-babble Kara hears)the seaweed risesfrom the ocean floorby ivy-clothed Ihami,and all along the sea sandsfloat fine sea-tangles.So, ...
The Fields Of God (Patience Worth Poems)
I have been within the fieldAt the young morning, when the thrushTore ope the brushy way, marking her flightWith the ...
The National Paintings (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
Awake,ye forms of verse divine! Painting! descend on canvas wing,-And hover o'er my head, Design! Your son, your glorious son, I sing;At ...
Broadway (Lola Ridge Poems)
Light!Innumerable ions of light,Kindling, irradiating,All to their foci tending…Light that jingles like anklet chainsOn bevies of little lithe twinkling feet,Or ...
To S.M. a Young African Painter (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent,And thought in living characters to paint,When first thy pencil did those beauties give,And ...
To The Painted Columbine (Jones Very Poems)
Bright image of the early yearsWhen glowed my cheek as red as thou,And life's dark throng of cares and fearsWere ...
Isle Of Wight (Mary Baker Eddy Poems)
On receiving a painting of the Isle. Isle of beauty, thou art singing To my sense a sweet refrain; To my busy mem'ry ...
True Love (Judith Viorst Poems)
It is true love becauseI put on eyeliner and a concerto and make pungent observations about the great issues of ...
To Santa Claus (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Most tangible of all the gods that be,O Santa Claus-- our own since Infancy!As first we scampered to thee-- now, ...