Ars Poetica? (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
I have always aspired to a more spacious form that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose ...
Poetry Poems (1966 Poems)
Poets (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Poets are strange -- not always understood By many is their gift,Which is for evil or for mighty good -- ...
Lines For The Fortune Cookies (Frank O Hara Poems)
I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will you—even bigger.You ...
Baudelaire (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
When I fall asleep, and even during sleep, I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking Whole phrases, commonplace and trivial, Having ...
Twenty-Two Rhymes To Left-Prime-Minister Wei (Du Fu Poems)
Boys in fancy clothes never starve,but Confucian scholars often find their lives in ruin. Please listen to my explanation, Sir,I, ...
Sylvia’s Death (Anne Sexton Poems)
for Sylvia Plath O Sylvia, Sylvia, with a dead box of stones and spoons, with two children, two meteors wandering ...
My Skeleton, My Rival (David Ignatow Poems)
Interesting that I have to live with my skeleton. It stands, prepared to emerge, and I carry it with me-this ...
The Seventh (Attila Jozsef Poems)
If you set out in this world, better be born seven times. Once, in a house on fire, once, in ...
Vegas (Charles Bukowski Poems)
there was a frozen tree that I wanted to paint but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across ...
The River Charles (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
BESIDE thee, O my river, where I waitThrough vista long of years and drink my fillOf beauty and of light, ...
To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time (Countee Cullen Poems)
I cannot hold my peace, John Keats; There never was a spring like this; It is an echo, that repeats ...
The End Of A Page (Bernard Waters Poems)
THE Room is getting cold, one gas-light burns And the fire is now a monotonous red glow ; The old ...
To A Poet (Alice Meynell Poems)
Thou who singest through the earth, All the earth's wild creatures fly thee,Everywhere thou marrest mirth. Dumbly they defy thee.There ...
La Ronde Du Diable (Amy Lowell Poems)
Here we go round the ivy-bush, And that's a tune we all dance to. Little poet people snatching ivy, Trying ...
Rubber-Stamp Humour (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
If couples mated but for love; If women all were perfect cooks; If Hoosier authors wrote no books; ...
To Longfellow (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
The crown of stars is broken in parts, Its jewels brighter than the day, Have one by one been stolen ...
The Foggy, Foggy Blue (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
When I was a young man, I loved to write poems And I called a spade ...
Poems, Chiefly Scientific (Eli Siegel Poems)
1. To Settle As Chalk Blankness and thickness Took a walk; And while walking decided To settle as chalk. 2. ...
Pantoum Of The Great Depression (Donald Justice Poems)
Our lives avoided tragedySimply by going on and on,Without end and with little apparent meaning.Oh, there were storms and small ...
A Ride In A Omnibus (Aubrey Vincent Beardsley Poems)
Of all kinds of conveyances, I think the omnibusFor many little reasons should be voted best by us;But there are ...
When You Weren’t Here (Cahit Kulebi Poems)
when you werent here, i went over my fears i never looked behind silver poems, i wrote when you werent ...
Invocation (Charles Warren Stoddard Poems)
Oh, Poesy! exquisite gift,Thou art a magnet that shall liftMy gold from out the drossy rift.Thou art my soul's refulgent ...
To Make A Bridge (Charles Madge Poems)
To make a bridgeBetween poetry and proseTo make a movable bridgeBetween this year and next yearTo know the male from ...
Far and Near (George MacDonald Poems)
The fact which suggested this poem is related by Clarke in his Travels.I.Blue sky above, blue sea below,Far off, the ...
Absent! (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
You do not lift your eyes to watchUs pass the conscious door;Your startled ear perceiveth notOur footfall on the floor;No ...
On a Picture by R. R. Reinagle (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
On a Picture by R. R. Reinagle,Representing me in an easy armed chair, which Mrs. M. took kind pains to ...
Sonnet Suggested By Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Let me not, ever, to the marriage in CanaOf Galilee admit the slightest sentimentOf doubt about the astonishing and sustaining ...
On Reading Some Elegant Commendations Of A Character, To Which They Were Not Appropriate (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
TH ' unfading wreath by Genius only won,Pleas'd I return to grace her favour'd son;For truth forbids her votaries to ...
Autumn (Alice Cary Poems)
Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips The days, as through the sunset gates they crowd, And Summer from ...
Kenilworth (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
BROAD level fields, and hedges thick with trees, A calm still evening dropping fitful rain, And hawthorns loaded with their ...