Captain Craig (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
Emotions Poems (1536 Poems)
On the Way (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
Lazarus (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"No, Mary, there was nothing-not a word. Nothing, and always nothing. Go again Yourself, and he may listen-or at least ...
The Book of Annandale (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
Far-Darting Apollo (Kathleen Raine Poems)
I saw the sun step like a gentleman Dressed in black and proud as sin. I saw the sun walk ...
To Music (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the ...
Ainsi Va le Monde (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
Girl’s Lament (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
In the years when we were all children, this inclining to be alone so much was gentle; others' time passed ...
Cupid Sleeping (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
CLOSE in a woodbine's tangled shade, The BLOOMING GOD asleep was laid; ...
Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Look, how tiny down there, look: the last village of words and, higher, ...
Edmund’s Wedding (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
By the side of the brook, where the willow is waving Why sits the wan Youth, in his wedding-suit gay! ...
Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes? We are not of one mind. Are not like birds in ...
Elegy to the Memory of David Garrick, Esq. (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
DEAR SHADE OF HIM, who grac'd the mimick scene, And charm'd attention with resistless pow'r; Whose wond'rous art, whose fascinating ...
An answer to Various Bards (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in, Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their ...
On Kusu Terrace (Li Po Poems)
The old gardens of Kusu Terrace are a wilderness, yet the willows that remain still put out new branches; lasses ...
The Cat’s Song (Marge Piercy Poems)
Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness. My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says the ...
“I loved you…” (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
I loved you, and I probably still do, And for a while the feeling may remain... But let my love ...
Poetry (Don Paterson Poems)
In the same way that the mindless diamond keeps one spark of the planet's early fires trapped forever in its ...
Cut (Sylvia Plath Poems)
for Susan O'Neill Roe What a thrill ---- My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for ...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) (Ezra Pound Poems)
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
Epilogue (Ezra Pound Poems)
O chansons foregoing You were a seven days' wonder. When you came out in the magazines You created considerable stir ...
Johnson’s Antidote (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Down along the Snakebite River, where the overlanders camp, Where the serpents are in millions, all of the most deadly ...
PROPERTIUS (Vlanes Poems)
Desine, Paulle, meum lacrimis urgere sepulcrum: nempe tuas lacrimas litora surda bibent. Propertius, IV.11 Don't cry for me, for only ...
The Time Around Scars (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
A girl whom I've not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old scar. On ...
The Lake (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
In spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I could ...
From “THE TALK OF FLOWERS” (Jonas Mekas Poems)
I do not know, whether the sun accomplished it, the rain or wind - but I was missing so the ...
No Doctor’s Today, Thank You (Ogden Nash Poems)
They tell me that euphoria is the feeling of feeling wonderful, well, today I feel euphorian, Today I have the ...
No, You Be A Lone Eagle (Ogden Nash Poems)
I find it very hard to be fair-minded About people who go around being air-minded. I just can't see any ...
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934 (Anais Nin Poems)
"Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
WREATH OF SONNETS (Vlanes Poems)
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...