To Rich Givers. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHAT you give me, I cheerfully accept, A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money-these, as I rendezvous ...
Poetry Poems (1966 Poems)
Dream On (Edward Taylor Poems)
Some people go their whole lives without ever writing a single poem. Extraordinary people who don't hesitate to cut somebody's ...
CONSTRUCTIONS/RECONSTRUCTIONS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I Living in a land Where only the dying correspond I am borne on the wings of love II I ...
As I Ponder’d in Silence. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful ...
Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you fair warning, ...
Loyalty (Edward Taylor Poems)
This is the hardest part: When I came back to life I was a good family dog and not too ...
TO BRENDA WILLIAMS ‘WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN’ (Barry Tebb Poems)
It was Karl Shapiro who wrote in his 'Defence of Ignorance' how many poets Go mad or seem to be ...
To Foreign Lands. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle, the New World, And to define America, her athletic ...
Full of Life, Now. (Walt Whitman Poems)
FULL of life, now, compact, visible, I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States, To one a century ...
M’Fingal – Canto III (John Trumbull Poems)
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
SORRY I MISSED YOU (Barry Tebb Poems)
(or 'Huddersfield the Second Poetry Capital of England Re-visited') What was it Janice Simmons said to me as James lay ...
Poem of Joys. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
Elemental Drifts. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 ELEMENTAL drifts! How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb'd ...
THE DAYS GO BY (Barry Tebb Poems)
for Daniel Weissbort Some poems meant only for my eyes About a grief I can't let go But I want ...
FOR JAMES SIMMONS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Sitting in outpatients With my own minor ills Dawn's depression lifts To the lilt of amitryptilene, A double dose for ...
I Sing the Body Electric. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
LETTER FROM HAWORTH (Barry Tebb Poems)
Poems do not always satisfy the soul, The feel of cobbles underfoot is at this moment more Than all of ...
NEW YEAR POEM (Barry Tebb Poems)
For Jeremy Reed Rejection doesn't lead me to dejection But to inspiration via irritation Or at least to a bit ...
In Cabin’d Ships at Sea. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 IN cabin'd ships, at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the ...
WANTS POEMS AND HAS NEVER REJECTED ANYONE (Barry Tebb Poems)
Eamer o' Keefe with your tinge of brogue And Irish warmth, Daisy and Debjani With your karma and cool verse, ...
POEM TO BE PLACED IN A BOTTLE AND CAST OUT TO SEA (Barry Tebb Poems)
for Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters in a bus called 'Further...' Dear _______ and here's where the problem begins ...
Thought. (Walt Whitman Poems)
OF what I write from myself-As if that were not the resumé; Of Histories-As if such, however complete, were not ...
LETTERS TO FRIENDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I Eddie Linden Dear Eddie we've not met Except upon the written page And at your age the wonder Is ...
AN EVENING WITH JOHN HEATH-STUBBS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Alone in Sutton with Fynbos my orange cat A long weekend of wind and rain drowning The tumultuous flurry of ...
To Think of Time. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
Genius (Mark Twain Poems)
Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. Geniuses are people who dash of weird, ...
My life has been the poem (Henry David Thoreau Poems)
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. (Henry ...
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 ...
The Lotos-eaters (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they ...
Poetry For Supper (R. S. Thomas Poems)
'Listen, now, verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse ...