Psalm 86 (John Milton Poems)
Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline, O hear me I thee pray, For I am poor, and almost pine With ...
Education Poems (4258 Poems)
Daisy Fraser (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon Giving to the public treasury any of the money he received For supporting ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
My father who owned the wagon-shop And grew rich shoeing horses Sent me to the University of Montreal. I learned ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Mrs. Kessler (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
When A Woman Loves A Man (David Lehman Poems)
When she says Margarita she means Daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, "I'll never ...
Poetry (Marianne Moore Poems)
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect ...
March 30 (David Lehman Poems)
Eighty-one degrees a record high for the day which is not my birthday but will do until the eleventh of ...
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; ...
Tenth Commandment (David Lehman Poems)
The woman said yes she would go to Australia with him Unless he heard wrong and she said Argentina Where ...
The Past is the Present (Marianne Moore Poems)
If external action is effete and rhyme is outmoded, I shall revert to you, Habakkuk, as when in a Bible ...
Ode To Modern Art (David Lehman Poems)
Come on in and stay a while I'll photograph you emerging from the revolving door like Frank O'Hara dating the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
December 25 (David Lehman Poems)
Christmas defeated Chanukah once again last night by a margin of three billion dollars or so, but every time I ...
Sonnet 18 (John Milton Poems)
XVIII Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of Brittish Themis, with no mean applause Pronounc't and in his volumes ...
With Tenure (David Lehman Poems)
If Ezra Pound were alive today (and he is) he'd be teaching at a small college in the Pacific Northwest ...
To My Little Niece Sally Livingston (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
To my little niece Sally Livingston, on the death of a little serenading wren she admired. Hasty pilgrim stop thy ...
TSUNAMI (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
How many tears can the ocean hold? What the history books Don't tell you is that The Indian Ocean was ...
Success in the Twenty-First Century (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Be Born. Become Educated. Love Your Work. Make a Meaningful Contribution to Yourself, Your Family, and Humanity. Have Sex with ...
EDUCATE NOT (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
No Time to Teach: In Class, They Give a General Overview. On Tests, They Want Particular Details. No Time to ...
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., ...
Homing Swallows (Claude McKay Poems)
Swift swallows sailing from the Spanish main, O rain-birds racing merrily away From hill-tops parched with heat and sultry plain ...
To O.E.A. (Claude McKay Poems)
Your voice is the color of a robin's breast, And there's a sweet sob in it like rain--still rain in ...
First Day at School (Roger McGough Poems)
A millionbillionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?) Why are they all so big, ...
The Widening Spell Of Leaves (Larry Levis Poems)
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
The Lesson (Roger McGough Poems)
Chaos ruled OK in the classroom as bravely the teacher walked in the nooligans ignored him hid voice was lost ...
Home From Abroad (Laurie Lee Poems)
Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways, My skin well-oiled with wines of the Levant, I set my face ...
The Keys of Morning (Walter de la Mare Poems)
While at her bedroom window once, Learning her task for school, Little Louisa lonely sat In the morning clear and ...
On The Meeting Of García Lorca And Hart Crane (Philip Levine Poems)
Brooklyn, 1929. Of course Crane's been drinking and has no idea who this curious Andalusian is, unable even to speak ...