The Fool (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
There lived a fool.For a long time he lived in peace and contentment; but by degrees rumoursbegan to reach him ...
Idea Poems (208 Poems)
He’S AboutT 22, I’m 63 (Helene M Johnson Poems)
He's about 22. I'm 63A pity! He's so pretty!He runs up the stairs.I climb step by step.We've never really met, ...
The Flying Dutchman (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Don't believe in the Flying Dutchman? I've known the fellow for years;My button I've wrenched from his clutch, man: I shudder whenever ...
When the Bear Comes Back Again (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, the scene is wide an' dreary an' the sun is settin' red,An' the grey-black sky of winter's comin' closer ...
A Magus (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
A missionary from the Mau Mau told me.There are spores blowing from space.He has himself seen an amazing botanyspringing the ...
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 ...
To Maya (Maximilian Alexandrovich Voloshin Poems)
Awash in flowers, colors riot,Descending slowly from a hill,She nears and stars… Who are you? — Maya.I am so grateful that you're ...
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 ...
To Some Ladies (John Keats Poems)
What though while the wonders of nature exploring,I cannot your light, mazy footsteps attend;Nor listen to accents, that almost adoring,Bless ...
Bon Voyage – And Vice Versa (Franklin P. Adams Poems)
Propertius: Elegy VIII, Part 1'Tune igitur demens nec te mea cura moratur?---'O Cynthia, hast thou lost thy mind?Have I no ...
My Friends (Terence Winch Poems)
for Doug LangThey came here first in a car shaped like a heartand now they depart as brilliant jazz musicians.They ...
Journey (Ian Mudie Poems)
By long journeying have I cometo this sacred site of the spiritwhere the waters of vision ever well.Across the drought-baked ...
Late Aubade & Explanation (Kate Northrop Poems)
Once in a field, in a wide rising stretch of paintbrush& purple vetch, we stuck downa tent, like punctuation, and ...
Shiftless (Raymond Clevie Carver Poems)
The people who were better than us were comfortable.They lived in painted houses with flush toilets.Drove cars whose year and ...
Who Says Words With My Mouth? (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.Where did I come from, and what am I ...
“No, I’m not Byron: I am, yet,” (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
No, I'm not Byron; I am, yet,Another choice for the sacred dole,Like him - a persecuted soul,But only of the ...
No, I’m not Byron; I am, yet (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
No, I'm not Byron; I am, yet,Another choice for the sacred dole,Like him - a persecuted soul,But only of the ...
Penelope (Judita Vaiciunaite Poems)
"...I'd go to my grave with Odysseus' name in my heart."It's difficult to experience your love -For no one can change ...
Dream Song 53: He lay in the middle of the world, and twicht (John Berryman Poems)
He lay in the middle of the world, and twicht.More Sparine for Pelides,human (half) & down here as he is,with ...
Envoi (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Now don't go and say you'd a dim Idea of these stories before, For I've frankly confessed them from Grimm, The monarch of ...
If You Had The Choice Of Two Women To Wed (Robert William Service Poems)
If you had the choice of two women to wed,(Though of course the idea is quite absurd)And the first from ...
Most Like An Arch This Marriage (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
Most like an arch-an entrance which upholdsand shores the stone-crush up the air like lace.Mass made idea, and idea held ...
Late-Flowering Larkspurs (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
FOR weeks we struggled with the summer droughtTo save the lives of sundry scraps of green,So small that they were ...
Impasse (Martinus Nijhoff Poems)
She stood in the kitchen, she and I.For days I had been thinking: ask it today.But because I was ashamed ...
“Let us go where there are varied crafts” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
1Let us go where there are varied craftsAnd trades -- shashlik and chebureki,Where trousers on a sign give usThe idea ...
My Almost-Daughter, my Nearly-was Son (Chris Forhan Poems)
Those overtime nights in the ice factory, eyeing gauges, greasing gears: that's one thing. And the hours of clarinet lessons.All ...
Rimas XIII (Gustavo Adolfo Becquer Poems)
Tu pupila es azul, y cuando ries, Su claridad suave me recuerda El tremulo fulgor de la manana Que en el mar se ...
Poems On Man (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Man goes into the noisy crowdto drown his own clamour of silence.~ Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly.For life ...
Amethysts (Innokentii Fedorovich Annensky Poems)
My eyes forgot the heavens' blue,To them the sun's dust is not gold,But I live just one substance through,That's to ...
Alf’s Second Bit (Ezra Pound Poems)
THE NEO-COMMUNEManhood of England,Dougth of the Shires,Want Russia to save 'emAnd answer their prayers.Want Russia to save 'em,Lenin to save ...