“I enjoy writing poems” (Halina Poswiatowska Poems)
I enjoy writing poems. In a poem, like at a public rally, tempers boil, screams burst openthe form, and the ...
Poetry Poems (1966 Poems)
Reservoirs (R S Thomas Poems)
There are places in Wales I don't go:Reservoirs that are the subconciousOf a people, troubled far downWith gravestones, chapels, villages ...
Nessmuk (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I hail thee, Nessmuk, for the lofty tone Yet simple grace that marks thy poetry! True forester thou art, and still to ...
Then And Now (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When my old heart was young, my dear, The Earth and Heaven were so near That in my dreams I oft could ...
Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’ (Thomas Lovell Beddoes Poems)
Write it in gold - a Spirit of the sun,An Intellect ablaze with heavenly thoughts,A soul with all the dews ...
To Etta (Mary Baker Eddy Poems)
Fair girl, thy rosebud heart rests warm Within life's summer bowers! Nor blasts of winter's angry storm, Nor April's changeful showers, Its leaves have ...
Love, The Interpreter (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Thou art the music that I hear in sleep, The poetry that lures me on in dreams; The magic, thou, that holds ...
Fuji In A Saucer: The Poem (Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin Poems)
Through tannic steam I catch a glimpse of Fuji:Against a yellow sky volcanic goldA saucer narrows nature very strangely,In shallow ...
To A Gentleman, Who Had Abus’d Waller. (Mary Barber Poems)
I grieve to think that Waller's blam'd,Waller, so long, so justly, fam'd.Then own your Verses writ in Haste,Or I shall ...
Viewing Cac-Co Cavern (Ho Xuan Huong Poems)
Heaven and earth brought forth this rocky massits face cut by a deep crevassecrack's dark mouth shagged with mosspines rocking ...
Now Winter Nights Enlarge (Thomas Campion Poems)
Now winter nights enlargeThis number of their hours;And clouds their storms dischargeUpon the airy towers.Let now the chimneys blazeAnd cups ...
Weaving at Night (Ho Xuan Huong Poems)
Lampwick turned up, the room glows white.The looms moves easily all night longas feet work and push below.Nimbly the shuttle ...
The Violet’s Complaint To Nature (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
Occasioned by a Lady having presented a Gentleman, inreturn for a poem, with a golden violet. In imitation ofthe ancient ...
Untitled #6 (Janina Degutyte Poems)
Bygones cannot be bygones.Only streets and squareshave forgotten the smell of fire.Only fieldshave forgotten the taste of blood.Iron forsaken still ...
To My Good Master (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
In fancy, always, at thy desk, thrown wide, Thy most betreasured books ranged neighborly-- The rarest rhymes of every land and sea And ...
March (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
There's a wind blowing Cold through the corridors, A ghost-wind, The flapping of defeated wings, A hell-fantasy From meadows damned To eternal April And listening, listening To the ...
The Abbey (John William Inchbold Poems)
We only know that all in peace have rest, The Babe that died betwixt its sob and smile, The Knight whose fame ...
The Poet And The Baby (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
How's a man to write a sonnet, can you tell,-- How's he going to weave the dim, poetic spell,-- When a-toddling on ...
For Ever Hard To Meet… (Li Shang yin Poems)
For ever hard to meet, and as hard to part.Each flower spoiled in the failing East wind.Spring's silkworms wind till ...
The Secret Of Poetry (Jon Anderson Poems)
When I was lonely, I thought of death.When I thought of death I was lonely.I suppose this error will continue.I ...
An Epigram (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE GENTLEMEN REFLECTED ON IN THE ROSCIAD,A POEM, BY THE AUTHOR Worried with debts and past all hopes of ...
The Galata Bridge (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
Hanging around on the Bridge,Gleefully I watch all of you...Out there, some of you row backwardOr pick mussels off the ...
TO Mr. Samuel Brooke (John Donne Poems)
O THOU which to search out the secret parts Of the India, or rather Paradise Of knowledge, hast with courage and adviceLately ...
Praise (R S Thomas Poems)
I praise you becauseyou are artist and scientistin one. When I am somewhatfearful of your power,your ability to work miracleswith ...
Praise (Ronald Stuart Thomas Poems)
I praise you becauseyou are artist and scientistin one. When I am somewhatfearful of your power,your ability to work miracleswith ...
Typhoon Signal No. 1 (Nick Carbo Poems)
This is where the typhoon starts-inside the fourth paragraph,ten city blocks away,where the neurosurgeon halfsLa Celestina, where you occupythe spot ...
Saying Goodbye (Jonas Aistis Poems)
You didn't see how fine a snowSnowed from the apple tree.And I was sure my poems wouldGet through to you, ...
Don’t Shame My Word (Rachel Korn Poems)
Don't Shame my word that tears itself to youas you tell us not to shame a poor man's handdon't humble ...
Hymn: The Minstrel Harp of Poetry (John Bowring Poems)
The minstrel harp of PoetryHas touched the sunbeam on the sea,And to the music of the spheresWe listen with enchanted ...
A Toast To Wilkie Collins (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
FEBRUARY 16, 1874THE painter's and the poet's fameShed their twinned lustre round his name,To gild our story-teller's art,Where each in ...