Tractor (Ted Hughes Poem)
The tractor stands frozen - an agony To think of. All night Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering ...
Smoking Poems (207 Poems)
THREE ODES TO MY FRIEND. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
The Bachelor’s Soliloquy (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
To wed, or not to wed; that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The bills ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
A Supermarket In California (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with ...
The Meadows In Spring (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
'Tis a dull sight To see the year dying, When winter winds Set the yellow wood sighing: Sighing, oh! sighing. ...
Old Song (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
TIS a dull sight To see the year dying, When winter winds Set the yellow wood sighing: Sighing, O sighing! ...
A Hundred Collars (Robert Frost Poem)
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
At the Vietnam War Memorial (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
Candles (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The days of our future stand in front of us like a row of little lit candles -- golden, warm, ...
Variations of an Air (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Old King Cole Was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe ...
Legend (Hart Crane Poem)
As silent as a mirror is believed Realities plunge in silence by . . . I am not ready for ...
Phantasmagoria CANTO VI ( Dyscomfyture ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Opening the Geode (Julie Hill Alger Poem)
When the molten earth seethed in its whirling cauldron nobody watched the pot from a tall wooden stool set out ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers The golden lights go out . . . The yellow windows darken, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02: The Fulfilled Dream (Conrad Aiken Poem)
More towers must yet be built-more towers destroyed- Great rocks hoisted in air; And he must seek his bread in ...
Dear Deborah (Deborah Ager Poem)
They tell me that your heart has been found in Iowa, pumping along Interstate 35. Do you want it back? ...
185. The Humble Petition of Bruar Water (Robert Burns Poem)
MY lord, I know your noble ear Woe ne'er assails in vain; Embolden'd thus, I beg you'll hear Your humble ...
80. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata (Robert Burns Poems)
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
The Song of Los (William Blake Poems)
AFRICA I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: He sung it to four harps at the ...
Dreams (Lisa Zaran Poems)
It is later than late, the simmered down darkness of the jukebox hour. The hour of drunkenness and cigarettes. The ...
A City’s Death By Fire (Derek Walcott Poems)
After that hot gospeller has levelled all but the churched sky, I wrote the tale by tallow of a city's ...
Swing Song (John Williams Poems)
The blatant horns blare strident sound; Delighted, you laugh and seize My passive arm, but I have found Content in ...
Silver Filigree (Elinor Wylie Poems)
The icicles wreathing On trees in festoon Swing, swayed to our breathing: They're made of the moon. She's a pale, ...
Hymn 125 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Christ's compassion to the weak and tempted. Heb. 4:15,16; 5:7; Matt. 12:20. With joy we meditate the grace Of our ...
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 ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 2 (Barry Tebb Poems)
STANDING IN EDEN 1 Poetry claimed me young on Skegness beach Before I was born I answered her cry For ...