To The Poet-Priest Ryan (James Barron Hope Poems)
_IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A COPY OF HIS POEMS_. Himself I read beneath the words he writes ... I may come back and ...
Horse Poems (1188 Poems)
Because Even the Word Obstacle is an Obstacle (Alison Luterman Poems)
Try to love everything that gets in your way:the Chinese women in flowered bathing capsmurmuring together in Mandarin, doing leg ...
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 ...
The Clearing of the Land: An Epitaph (Larry Levis Poems)
The trees went up the hillAnd over it.Then the dry grasses of the pasture wereOnly a kind of blonde lightSettling ...
The Toy-Maker (Padraic Colum Poems)
I AM the Toy-maker; I have brought from the townAs much in my plack as should fetch a whole crown,I'll ...
A Song Of Changgan (Li Po Poems)
My hair had hardly covered my forehead.I was picking flowers, paying by my door,When you, my lover, on a bamboo ...
The Death Of Hector (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
I'll not attempt the taskOf the Iliad to relate;But I will tell of HectorAnd how he met his fate.The Trojan ...
Advice, To The Traveller (Rees Prichard Poems)
ERE thou thy foot shalt in the stirrup place,Beseech thy God to bless thee with his grace,And keep thee safe, ...
The Horse’s Face (Nikolai Zabolotsky Poems)
Animals don't sleep. In the dark after nightfallThey stand over the world like a stone wall.The cow's sloping headRustles its ...
Late Night with Fog and Horses (Raymond Clevie Carver Poems)
They were in the living room. Saying theirgoodbyes. Loss ringing in their ears.They'd been through a lot together, but nowthey ...
The Clearing Of The Land (Larry Levis Poems)
The trees went up the hillAnd over it.Then the dry grasses of the pasture wereOnly a kind of blonde lightSettling ...
Fate (Helge Rode Poems)
I was riding one day, 'twas a bright sunny day,not a cloud to be seen in the sky,When a small ...
What Lasts? (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
The words we speak on the empty air,Are never lost, but recorded there;The process we may not comprehend,Nor how the ...
Evening On The Lake Of The Four Forest Cantons (Maironis Poems)
Chilly lake breezes rippled the watersOf emerald greenAnd with no oarsman drove the boat forwardAs if in a dream.Slowly the ...
Dying In Harness (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
ONLY a fallen horse, stretched out there on the road.Stretched in the broken shafts, and crushed by the heavy load;Only ...
The Author To His Body On Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80 (Howard Nemerov Poems)
"There's never a dull moment in the human body." -The Insight LadyDear old equivocal and closest friend,Grand Vizier to a weak ...
The Soldier’s Funeral (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
The muffled drum rolled on the air,Warriors, with stately step, were there;On every arm was the black crape bound,Every carbine ...
Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza XIV (Gertrude Stein Poems)
She need not be selfish but he may addThey like my way it is partly mineIn which case for them ...
To Kasbek (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
With winged footsteps now I hastenUnto the far cold North away,Kasbek,--thou watchman of the East,To thee, my farewell greetings say!Since ...
Yussouf (James Russell Lowell Poems)
A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent,Saying, 'Behold one outcast and in dread,Against whose life the bow of power ...
“A Brave Refrain” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
When snow is here, and the trees look weird, And the knuckled twigs are gloved with frost;When the breath congeals in ...
At The Ferry (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Oh, dim and wan came in the dawn, And gloomy closed the day; The killdee whistled among the weeds, The heron flapped in ...
The Island (George Woodcock Poems)
The oars fell from our hands. We climbed the darkSlopes of kelp to the stairway up the rock.Scott went first, ...
Suppose (Phoebe Cary Poems)
Suppose, my little lady,Your doll should break her head,Could you make it whole by cryingTill your eyes and nose are ...
Sadowa (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Wet, cheerless was our bivouac last eve, but still we spokeOf fighting and of winning, to-morrow, when day broke:That day ...
What Atomes make Fire to burne, and whatFlame. (Margaret Cavendish Poems)
WHat makes a Sparke of Fire to burne more quick,Then a great Flame? because 'tis small to stick.For Fire of ...
The Icehouse In Summer (Howard Nemerov Poems)
A door sunk in a hillside, with a boltthick as the boy's arm, and behind that doorthe walls of ice, ...
A Brave Refrain (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
When snow is here, and the trees look weird,And the knuckled twigs are gloved with frost;When the breath congeals in ...
Baby’s Dream (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
"The anarchy of dreaming sleep."The baby left the big front door,And toddled past the garden bower ;And where two trees ...
The Black Tracker (Or: Why He Lost The Track) (Henry Lawson Poems)
THERE was a tracker in the force Of wondrous sight (the story ran):-He never failed to track a horse, He never failed ...