Modern Love XXV: You Like Not That French Novel (George Meredith Poems)
You like not that French novel? Tell me why. You think it quite unnatural. Let us see. The actors are, ...
Movies Poems (437 Poems)
Henry Phipps (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was the Sunday school superintendent, The dummy president of the wagon works And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Flossie Cabanis (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
From Bindle's opera house in the village To Broadway is a great step. But I tried to take it, my ...
William H. Herndon (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor ...
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 ...
December 25 (David Lehman Poems)
Christmas defeated Chanukah once again last night by a margin of three billion dollars or so, but every time I ...
DARKIES (John Lindley Poems)
"I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid". Hattie McDaniel. I'm ...
Success in the Twenty-First Century (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Be Born. Become Educated. Love Your Work. Make a Meaningful Contribution to Yourself, Your Family, and Humanity. Have Sex with ...
The Road That Runs Beside The River (Thomas Lux Poems)
follows the river as it bends along the valley floor, going the way it must. Where water goes, so goes ...
October 16 (David Lehman Poems)
What can you say about the Mets down three games to none one run down with six outs to go ...
Gin (Philip Levine Poems)
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...
Once (Philip Levine Poems)
Hungry and cold, I stood in a doorway on Delancey Street in 1946 as the rain came down. The worst ...
Voyages (Philip Levine Poems)
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart -- I walk by sedge and brown river rot to where the old ...
Montjuich (Philip Levine Poems)
"Hill of Jews," says one, named for a cemetery long gone."Hill of Jove," says another, and maybe Jove stalked here ...
Blanche Sweet (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
MOVING-PICTURE ACTRESS (After seeing the reel called "Oil and Water.") Beauty has a throne-room In our humorous town, Spoiling its ...
A Florida Sunday. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...