History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow) (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
The Sun's in its orbit, yet I feel morbid.Act 1PrologueLadies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let ...
Sales Poems (92 Poems)
Essay on Psychiatrists (Robert Pinsky Poems)
I. InvocationIt's crazy to think one could describe them-Calling on reason, fantasy, memory, eves and ears-As though they were all ...
Aechdeacon Barbour (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
Yet Dish (Gertrude Stein Poems)
I Put a sun in Sunday, Sunday. Eleven please ten hoop. Hoop. Cousin coarse in coarse in soap. Cousin coarse in soap sew up. ...
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto I. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Matthew met Richard, when or whereFrom story is not mighty clear:Of many knotty points they spoke,And pro and con by ...
The Auction Sale (Henry Reed Poems)
Within the great grey flapping tentThe damp crowd stood or stamped about;And some came in, and some went outTo drink ...
The Devil Of Pope-Fig Island (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
BY master Francis clearly 'tis expressed:The folks of Papimania are blessed;True sleep for them alone it seems was madeWith US ...
The Hasteners (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The last walls of shame fell,And we rejoiced…And we danced…And we were blessed with the signing of the peace of ...
The Demon Of The Study (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The Brownie sits in the Scotchman's room,And eats his meat and drinks his ale,And beats the maid with her unused ...
Beautiful Snow (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and the earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of ...
Once More (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
"Will I come?" That is pleasant! I beg to inquireIf the gun that I carry has ever missed fire?And which ...
Song Of The Colours: By Taj Mahomed (Laurence Hope Poems)
_Rose-colour_Rose Pink am I, the colour gleams and glows In many a flower; her lips, those tender doorsBy which, in time ...
Albemarle Cushing (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
Joy in rebel Plymouth town, in the spring of 'sixty-four,When the Albemarle down on the Yankee frigates bore,With the saucy ...
The Sangamon River (Hattie Howard Poems)
O sunny Sangamon! thy name to me, Soft-syllabled like some sweet melody, Familiar is since adolescent years As household phrases ringing in my ...
Comparative Slavery (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Look on this picture, and on that."Tell me not of negro slavery, Of its shackles, stripes, and woes—Shackles stronger, stripes more ...
Spring Song In The City (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
WHO remains in London,In the streets with me,Now that Spring is blowingWarm winds from the sea;Now that trees grow green ...
Study Nature (Gertrude Stein Poems)
I do. Victim. Sales Met Wipe Her Less. Was a disappointment We say it. Study nature. Or Who Towering. Mispronounced Spelling. She Was Astonishing To No One For Fun Study from nature. I Am Pleased Thoroughly I Am Thoroughly Pleased. By. It. It is very likely. They said so. Oh. I want. To do. What Is Later To Be Refined. By Turning. Of turning around. I will wait. ...
Unseen Spirits (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
The shadows lay along broadway,'t was near the twilight-tide,and slowly there a lady fairwas walking in her pride.Alone walked she; ...
Of Cruelty (Ivor Gurney Poems)
From the racked substance of the earth comes the plant andThat with heat and the night frost is tortured:To some ...
Lay Back the Darkness (Edward Hirsch Poems)
My father in the night shuffling from room to roomon an obscure mission through the hallway.Help me, spirits, to penetrate ...
The Philosopher and the Philanthropist (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
Searching an infinite Where, Probing a bottomless When, Dreamfully wandering, Ceaselessly pondering, What is the Wherefore of men: Bartering life for a There, Selling his soul ...
The Coquet (Sir William Davenant Poems)
TIS, in good truth, a most wonderful thing(I am even ashamed to relate it)That love so many vexations should bring,And ...
Dream-Fate (Gerrit Achterberg Poems)
You showed me tonight the rooms again;everything the same. It was again the first timeamong a thousand others that I ...
The Dance To Death. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
Rose of Aberlone (Brainerd Currie Poems)
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
Appendix: Containing The Author’s Conversation With His Bookseller, &c. (Christopher Anstey Poems)
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
H. S. Mauberley (Life And Contacts) [Part I] (Ezra Pound Poems)
Vocat aestus in umbram Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'?lection de son s?pulchre For three years, out of ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXXVIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ILMARINEN'S FRUITLESS WOOING.Ilmarinen, the magician,The eternal metal-artist,Lays aside the golden image,Beauteous maid of magic metals;Throws the harness on his courser,Binds ...
Babs Malone (Barcroft Henry Boake Poems)
Babs Malone Now the squatters and the cockies, Shearers, trainers, and their jockeys Had gathered them together for a meeting ...
Rursery Rhymes (Abner Cosens Poems)
Ten Little Slackers Ten little slackers standing in a line, One went to U. S., then there were ...