PASSAGE for Allen Ginsberg (Ai Ogawa Poems)
Sunflowers beside the railroad tracks,sunflowers giving back the beauty God gave youto one lonely travelerwho spies you from a train ...
People Poems (3870 Poems)
The Master (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Now when the darkness came over the earth Joseph of Arimathea,having lighted a torch of pinewood, passed down from the ...
Spread the Truth! (Henry Lawson Poems)
BRAVE the anger of the wealthy! Scorn their bitter lying spite!Tell the Truth in simple language, when you know that ...
A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice From One Long Dead (Kenneth Koch Poems)
Who was my teacher at Harvard. Did not wear overcoatSaying to me as we walked across the YardCold brittle autumn ...
Social Security (Terence Winch Poems)
No one is safe. The streets are unsafe.even in the safety zones, it's not safe.Even safe sex is not safe.Even ...
Here We Are, Mr. Bull, Your Orange And Green (John Banim Poems)
Here we are, Mr. Bull, your Orange and ...
Christ At The Parting Of The Ways (Josef Hora Poems)
They go here and there. Each with a fate. Each at their own pace. And I am hanging here in thorns to ...
Contrast (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
The world has many seas, Mediterranean, Atlantic, buthere is the shore of the one ocean.And here the heavy future hangs ...
Ch 01 Manner of Kings Story 21 (Sa di Poems)
It is narrated that an oppressor of the people, a soldier, hit the head of a pious man with a ...
Philosophy (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I been t'inkin' 'bout de preachah; whut he said de othah night, 'Bout hit bein' people's dooty, fu' to keep dey ...
Serviceman’s Complaint (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Cockcrow's chalky virtue, a swanscales up and over willows,thrashing her misty pool. No one hollosher decamping, sluggish as though only ...
For Three Whose Reflex was Yes (Bob Hicok Poems)
Nobody I know is a god. A mother and sonfall into the river's million hands, the river'ssmash and grab. They ...
Hohenburg (Georg Trakl Poems)
HohenburgThe house is empty. Fall in the room.The moon's lone glowand a birth at the edge of the dawning woods.Forever ...
The Blind Man At The Fair (Joseph Campbell Poems)
O TO be blind! To know the darkness that I know. The stir I hear is empty wind, The people idly come and ...
Insects In Summer (James Thomson Poems)
Waked by his warmer ray, the reptile youngCame wing'd abroad; by the light air upborneLighter, and full of soul. From ...
His Praise Of Finn (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
It is a week from yesterday I last saw Finn; I never saw a braver man.A king of heavy blows; ...
The Oldest Living Thing In L.A. (Larry Levis Poems)
At Wilshire & Santa Monica I saw an opossumTrying to cross the street. It was late, the streetWas brightly lit, ...
A Gotham Garden of Verses (Franklin P. Adams Poems)
IIn summer when the days are hotThe subway is delayed a lot;In winter, quite the selfsame thing;In autumn also, and ...
Answer to Prayer (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
Der ain't no use in sayin' de Lawd won't answer prah;If you knows how to ax Him, I knows He's ...
“Dreamers?” (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
"Dreamers?" Ah, no! else he was a dreamer, Our crucified brother of long, long ago;Arrested, and jeered at; "seditious;" "blasphemer;" And legally ...
Song II (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Why flatter thyself, Tyrant,In ways great in evil?The Lord's goodness ceases notKeeping watch on the pious.Keener yet than the keenestBlade, ...
Jerusalem (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
AT last, at last the CrescentFalls back before the Cross.Great spirits, incandescentWith longing and with loss,Gleam from the clouds, crusadersWho ...
Celebrity (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
ON bridges small and bridges greatStands Nepomucks in ev'ry state,Of bronze, wood, painted, or of stone,Some small as dolls, some ...
Welsh History (R S Thomas Poems)
We were a people taut for war; the hillsWere no harder, the thin grassClothed them more warmly than the coarseShirts ...
The Ball Poem (John Berryman Poems)
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,What, what is he to do? I saw it goMerrily bouncing, ...
Mrs. Merdle Doubts Paradise’s Uneating Pleasure (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
Though Houris are handsome, though lovely the place-- More lovely perhaps than our own country seat-- I never could see, in the ...
Lazy (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
Some men enjoy the constant strifeOf days with work and worry rife,But that is not my dream of life:I think ...
Mysteries (Terence Winch Poems)
All last night I kept speaking in thisarchaic language, because I had been readingPoe and thinking about him. I read ...
A Panegyrick On Cardinal W—- (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Hail! Minister, by Paradoxes great!Proceeds it from thy Genius or thy Fate?Courtier compleat, with Manners unpolite;Without thy Prince's Love, a ...
Noliwe (Leopold Sedhar Senghor Poems)
The weakness of the heart is holly.Ah! You think that I never loved herMy Negress fair with palmoil, slender as ...