He Moralizeth Upon What A Day May Bring Forth (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
"To-morrow!" who'll warrant to-morrow we'll see? Who'll care the next day or day after for dinner? Or what the next fashion of ...
Poetry Poems (1966 Poems)
To A Blank Sheet Of Paper (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WAN-VISAGED thing! thy virgin leafTo me looks more than deadly pale,Unknowing what may stain thee yet,--A poem or a tale.Who ...
The Poet’s Lesson (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
There came a voice from the realm of thought, And my spirit bowed to hear,-- A voice with majestic sadness fraught, By the ...
Editing (Karl Shapiro Poems)
Next to my office where I edit poems ("Can poems be edited?") there is the Chicago Models club. All day ...
Personally Addressed (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Written for a Golden Wedding, 1883Just fifty years ago to-night, When earth was mantled deep with snow,The stars beheld with tender ...
The Lost Kiss (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I put by the half-written poem,While the pen, idly trailed in my hand,Writes on--, "Had I words to complete it,Who'd ...
Ode to Clothes (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Every morning you wait,clothes, over a chair,to fill yourself withmy vanity, my love,my hope, my body.Barelyrisen from sleep,I relinquish the ...
Auction Extraordinary (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her sixteenth year.)I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers,And as fast as I dreamed it, ...
Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River (Du Fu Poems)
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable,And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy.I look up our southern neighbor. But ...
Arise, O Gardener (Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor Poems)
Arise, O Gardener! And usher in the glory of a new spring.Create conditions for 'bulbuls' (a type of bird) toHover ...
A Private Public Space (Bob Hicok Poems)
You can't trust lesbians. You invite themto your party and they don't come,they're too busy tending vaginalflowers, hating football, walking ...
James Macfarlan (Edwin Morgan Poems)
'A man's a man for a' that' - how does he know?Traipsing with his plough, the rural hero,Swaggering down the ...
During A Journey In Sweden (Bj Poems)
My boyish heart in thee confided,For to the great by thee 't was guided.As man, my waiting is for thee,-The ...
The Picture (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Above her, pearl and rose the heavens lay:Around her, flowers flattered earth with gold,Or down the path in insolence held ...
Pupils Slip Up (Aaron Fogel Poems)
I have several questions.For a few monthsA radio business channelIn Boston carriedThrice hourly reportsOn the stock market--The Bloomfield report.Suddenly it ...
Rosemary (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Above her, pearl and rose the heavens lay;Around her, flowers scattered earth with gold,Or down the path in insolence held ...
They Are Dead Now (John Roderigo Dos Passos Poems)
A EULOGY FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI in the NEW MASSES, October 1927This isn't a poemThis is two men in grey ...
On The Threshold (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
INTRODUCTION TO A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY DIFFERENT AUTHORSAN usher standing at the doorI show my white rosette;A smile of ...
Lord Lundy, Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Lord Lundy from his earliest yearsWas far too freely moved to Tears.For instance if his Mother said,"Lundy! It's time to ...
A Welcome From The “Johnson Club” (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
To William John Courthope, _March 12, 1903_When Pope came back from Trojan wars once more,He found a Bard, to meet ...
P.S. (Aaron Fogel Poems)
P:The statistician and the poet need each other,But not yet.S:You need us now.Without a theory of probabilityTo guide you -P:Not ...
A Little Scraping (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
True, the time, to one who does not love farce,And if misery must be prefers it nobler, shows apparent vices;At ...
The tamed puma (Irving Layton Poems)
You are mistaken, he saidI am neither lecher nor womanizer.If I'm crazy about womenit's for the beautysome pitying devil threw ...
Called Into Play (Archie Randolph Ammons Poems)
Fall fell: so that's it for the leaf poetry:some flurries have whitened the edges of roadsand lawns: time for that, ...
Atlantis (Gordon Bottomley Poems)
What poets sang in Atlantis? Who can tellThe epics of Atlantis or their names?The sea hath its own murmurs, and ...
Something Nasty In The Bookshop (Kingsley Amis Poems)
Between the Gardening and the CookeryComes the brief Poetry shelf;By the Nonesuch Donne, a thin anthologyOffers itself.Critical, and with nothing ...
The Vegetable Garden (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
IFLOWERS are poetic, vegetables prose,-So it is said; yet music may there be,Though in a lower, less ecstatic key,In common ...
The Hill (Nissim Ezekiel Poems)
This normative hilllike all othersis transparently accessible,out thereand in the mind,not to be missedexcept in peril of one's life.Do not ...
In Michael Robins’s Class Minus One (Bob Hicok Poems)
At the desk where the boy sat, he sees the Chicago River.It raises its hand.It asks if metaphor should burn.He ...
A Ballad Of Sweethearts (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Summer may come, in sun-blonde splendor,To reap the harvest that Springtime sows;And Fall lead in her old defender, Winter, all huddled ...