To Mother, Christmas, 1920 (Mary Webb Poems)
Within the doorway of your room to-nightI stood, and saw your little treasures allSet out beneath the golden candle-light,While silver ...
Poetry Poems (1966 Poems)
Against the Dispraisers of Poetry (Richard Barnfield Poems)
Chaucer is dead; and Gower lies in grave;The Earl of Surrey long ago is gone;Sir Philip Sidney's soul the heavens ...
Sonnet XV. On The Grasshopper And Cricket (John Keats Poems)
The poetry of earth is never dead:When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,And hide in cooling trees, ...
Money (Dana Gioia Poems)
<i>Money is a kind of poetry.</i>- Wallace StevensMoney, the long green,cash, stash, rhino, jackor just plain dough.Chock it up, fork ...
Thought and Passion (Obadiah Cyrus Auringer Poems)
What feeble and unhappy bards are we,Who trace our lines with over-cunning handUpon a narrow strip of seashore sand,Washed over ...
The Golden Test (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
There is no god but gold, my son,Each man but wins his price.The man who fails is the man to ...
Catch (Robert Francis Poems)
Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together,Overhand, underhand, backhand, sleight of hand, everyhand,Teasing with attitudes, latitudes, interludes, altitudes,High, make ...
Rumors From An Aeolian Harp (Henry David Thoreau Poems)
There is a vale which none hath seen,Where foot of man has never been,Such as here lives with toil and ...
When Lydia Smiles (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When Lydia smiles, I seem to seeThe walls around me fade and flee; And, lo, in haunts of hart and hind I ...
Poetry. (George Pope Morris Poems)
To me the world's an open bookOf sweet and pleasant poetry;I read it in the running brookThat sings its way ...
To H. M. W. (John Kenyon Poems)
ON READING HER POEMS. Blest is the bard, whose modest pride, Unlured by vapour gleams of wit, Still clings to nature as a ...
“To produce a poem” (Halina Poswiatowska Poems)
To produce a poem - once a vibrating pain in the tissues was enough and a stock of words no ...
The Heart Of Poetry (Leonardas Andriekus Poems)
The first blossom glistened with dew -The rest of the world will soon flourish...Sing, Ikhnaton,Sing, Francis of Assisi -Once again ...
Concluding Sonnet To Jenny (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
One more thing to you, Child, I must tell:Gay this farewell poem, my singing's end;These last waves of silver throb ...
The Author, To The Reader, (Henry Bold Poems)
When as our English Poets, those happier menThat can drop wonders from their fluent pen:Have with their miracles of PoetryFeasted ...
iron plieurs (Miroslav Valek Poems)
In the street Vuk Karadzicwith the cornertwo men curve steel stems.It is a little the work of the poet.Iron like ...
Valuation (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
WHO shall tell the song its value:Critic ear, or heart of friend?Who shall weigh your love's completeness?Who shall test the ...
Japanese Hokku (Lewis Grandison Alexander Poems)
ILife goes by moving,Up and down a chain of moodsWanting what's nothing.IIMy soul is the windDashing down fields of Autumn:O, ...
Petition (R S Thomas Poems)
And I standing in the shadeHave seen it a thousand timesHappen: first theft, then murder;Rape; the rueful actsOf the blind ...
Annam (Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Poems)
Look at the moon in the midst ofVastly magnificent sky bed;Hear the young winds among bamboo;Feel the air - heavy ...
My Great Tenderness (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
My great tendernessFor the dead birdsFor the little spidersMy great tendernessFor the women that once were beautifulAnd became uglyFor the ...
“one more memory” (Halina Poswiatowska Poems)
one more memoryI have just written a wordI am older by a wordby twoby threeby a poemolder - what does ...
To Make A Dadist Poem (Tristan Tzara Poems)
Take a newspaper.Take some scissors.Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.Cut out the ...
What Do You Do About Dry Periods In Your Writing? (Richard Jones Poems)
When the writing is going well,I am a prince in a desert palace,fountains flowing in the garden.I lean an elbow ...
We Are Some Disjointed Guitars… (Kostas Karyotakis Poems)
We are some disjointed guitars.When the wind blows throughdiscordant lines and sounds awakenin the chainlike strings that dangle.We are some ...
Glass (Robert Francis Poems)
Words of a poem should be glassBut glass so simple-subtle its shapeIs nothing but the shape of what it holds.A ...
Deliverance Through Art (Lesbia Harford Poems)
When I am making poetry I'm goodAnd happy then.I live in a deep world of angelhoodAfar from men.And all the ...
Autumn Night (Ho Chi Minh Poems)
Before the gate, a guardwith a rifle on his shoulder.In the sky, the moon fleesthrough clouds.Swarming bed bugs,like black army ...
To Strephon (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Can Indignation so much Rage infuse?And dwells there then such Malice in a Muse?The sacred Nine, genteel and debonair,Scorn to ...
When I Love (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
When I loveI feel that I am the king of timeI possess the earth and everything on itand ride into ...