Ode to the Goddess Ceres (Thomas Moore Poems)
Dear Goddess of Corn, whom the ancients we know, (Among other odd whims of those comical bodies,) Adorn'd with somniferous ...
English Poems (766 Poems)
The Character Of Holland (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as ...
Bermudas (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Where the remote Bermudas ride In th' Oceans bosome unespy'd, From a small Boat, that row'd along, The listning Winds ...
Dora Williams (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just ...
Kinsey Keene (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank; Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Argus; Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading ...
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 ...
Eleventh Hour (David Lehman Poems)
The bloom was off the economic recovery. "I just want to know one thing," she said. What was that one ...
Wittgenstein’s Ladder (David Lehman Poems)
"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands them eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he ...
Maximism (David Lehman Poems)
What I propose is not Marxism, which is not dead yet in the English department, Not maximalism, which was a ...
Teeth (Spike Milligan Poems)
English Teeth, English Teeth! Shining in the sun A part of British heritage Aye, each and every one. English Teeth, ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
Call It Music (Philip Levine Poems)
Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song in my own breath. I'm alone here in Brooklyn Heights, late ...
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 ...
The Crystal (Sidney Lanier Poems)
At midnight, death's and truth's unlocking time, When far within the spirit's hearing rolls The great soft rumble of the ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
I Won, You Lost (Philip Levine Poems)
The last of day gathers in the yellow parlor and drifts like fine dust across the face of the gilt-framed ...