Invocation To The Muses (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The Naional Institute of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New ...
Memory Poems (2640 Poems)
Sonnets 12: Cherish You Then The Hope I Shall Forget (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Cherish you then the hope I shall forget At length, my lord, Pieria?-put away For your so passing sake, this ...
The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence (W. S. Merwin Poems)
Moored to the same ring: The hour, the darkness and I, Our compasses hooded like falcons. Now the memory of ...
A Poem For the End of the Century (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
When everything was fine And the notion of sin had vanished And the earth was ready In universal peace To ...
And Yet The Books (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts ...
Fiddler Jones (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
On Shakespear (John Milton Poems)
What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones, The labour of an age in piled Stones, Or that his hallow'd ...
To the Moon (Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
Oh gracious moon, now as the year turns, I remember how, heavy with sorrow, I climbed this hill to gaze ...
Rose Aylmer (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
Ah, what avails the sceptred race! Ah, what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were ...
Operation Memory (David Lehman Poems)
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...
Nyctivoe (extract) (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...
The First Death. (extracts) (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2000. VIII Final concept harbour which has broken there where it crumpled our faces there where ikons ...
Fare Well (Walter de la Mare Poems)
When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes, Nor the rain make lamentation When the ...
The Widow (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Grief hath pacified her face; Even hope might share so still a place; Yet, on the silence of her heart, ...
When the Rose is Faded (Walter de la Mare Poems)
When the rose is faded, Memory may still dwell on Her beauty shadowed, And the sweet smell gone. That vanishing ...
Rosemary (Marianne Moore Poems)
Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary - Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly - born of the sea ...
Among Children (Philip Levine Poems)
I walk among the rows of bowed heads-- the children are sleeping through fourth grade so as to be ready ...
A Sleepless Night (Philip Levine Poems)
April, and the last of the plum blossoms scatters on the black grass before dawn. The sycamore, the lime, the ...
Clouds Above The Sea (Philip Levine Poems)
My father and mother, two tiny figures, side by side, facing the clouds that move in from the Atlantic. August, ...
Then (Philip Levine Poems)
A solitary apartment house, the last one before the boulevard ends and a dusty road winds its slow way out ...
Ghosts in Love (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
"Tell me, where do ghosts in love Find their bridal veils?" "If you and I were ghosts in love We'd ...
The Tree of Laughing Bells (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
How the Wings Were Made From many morning-glories That in an hour will fade, From many ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...
Don’t Dwell (Poem)
Don't dwell on what might have been or the chances you have missed. Or the lonely nights that lie between ...
A New Day (Poem)
This is the beginning of a new day. I have been given this day to use as I will. I ...
When Tomorrow Starts Without Me (Erica Shea Liupaeter Poem)
When tomorrow starts without me, and I'm not there to see, If the sun should rise and find your eyes, ...
Love for a Hand (Karl Shapiro Poem)
Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white, And soon down ladders of reflected light The sleepers climb in ...
The Dash (Poem)
I've seen death stare me in my own eyes The way many of you cannot know, I've seen death take ...
The Road to Success is Always Under Construction (Poem)
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Life is not no much a matter of position ...