An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ...
Name Poems (6777 Poems)
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 ...
The Dance (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
Take the name of the swain, a forlorn witless elf Who was chang'd to a flow'r for admiring himself. A ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
On my Sister Joanna’s Entrance into Her 33rd Year (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
On this thy natal day permit a friend - A brother - with thy joys his own to blend: In ...
Account of a Visit From ST. Nicholas (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
The Vine & Oak, A Fable (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
A vine from noblest lineage sprung And with the choicest clusters hung, In purple rob'd, reclining lay, And catch'd the ...
Virgule (Thomas Lux Poems)
What I love about this little leaning mark is how it divides without divisiveness. The left or bottom side prying ...
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 ...
Those Graves In Rome (Larry Levis Poems)
There are places where the eye can starve, But not here. Here, for example, is The Piazza Navona, & here ...
SHAYDAYIM (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
(1) Caressing my tender breasts, his left hand's on the steering wheel, and his right hand is firmly tucked away ...
A Greek Girl (Amy Levy Poems)
I may not weep, not weep, and he is dead. A weary, weary weight of tears unshed Through the long ...
Africa (Claude McKay Poems)
The sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light, The sciences were sucklings at thy breast; When all the ...
Christopher Found (Amy Levy Poems)
I. At last; so this is you, my dear! How should I guess to find you here? So long, so ...
Baptism (Claude McKay Poems)
Into the furnace let me go alone; Stay you without in terror of the heat. I will go naked in--for ...
In a Minor Key (Amy Levy Poems)
(AN ECHO FROM A LARGER LYRE.) That was love that I had before Years ago, when my heart was young; ...
Commemoration (Claude McKay Poems)
When first your glory shone upon my face My body kindled to a mighty flame, And burnt you yielding in ...
On the Wye in May (Amy Levy Poems)
Now is the perfect moment of the year. Half naked branches, half a mist of green, Vivid and delicate the ...
Romance (Claude McKay Poems)
To clasp you now and feel your head close-pressed, Scented and warm against my beating breast; To whisper soft and ...
The Sequel to a Reminiscence (Amy Levy Poems)
Not in the street and not in the square, The street and square where you went and came; With shuttered ...
To a Poet (Claude McKay Poems)
There is a lovely noise about your name, Above the shoutings of the city clear, More than a moment's merriment, ...
Our Friendship (January 14) (David Lehman Poems)
We have a name for it in the South: asshole buddies. It means we've known each other so long it ...
First Day at School (Roger McGough Poems)
A millionbillionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?) Why are they all so big, ...
Ode For Mrs. William Settle (Philip Levine Poems)
In Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago, a woman sits at her desk to write me a letter. She holds ...
Our Guardian Angels and Their Children (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Where a river roars in rapids And doves in maples fret, Where peace has decked the pastures Our guardian angels ...
Any Night (Philip Levine Poems)
Look, the eucalyptus, the Atlas pine, the yellowing ash, all the trees are gone, and I was older than all ...
Foreign Missions in Battle Array (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
An endless line of splendor, These troops with heaven for home, With creeds they go from Scotland, With incense go ...
The New World (Philip Levine Poems)
A man roams the streets with a basket of freestone peaches hollering, "Peaches, peaches, yellow freestone peaches for sale." My ...
The Song of the Garden-Toad (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Down, down beneath the daisy beds, O hear the cries of pain! And moaning on the cinder-path They're blind amid ...
The Rat Of Faith (Philip Levine Poems)
A blue jay poses on a stake meant to support an apple tree newly planted. A strong wind on this ...