Account (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes. Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness, Like the flight ...
Thought & Thinking Poems (6162 Poems)
Jonathan Swift Somers (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities, The ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
A Hall (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
The road led straight to the temple. Notre Dame, though not Gothic at all. The huge doors were closed. I ...
Eugenia Todd (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Have any of you, passers-by, Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort? Or a pain in the side ...
An Ancient Gesture (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: Penelope did this too. And more than ...
The Wanderer (John Masefield Poems)
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
Amos Sibley (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Not character, not fortitude, not patience Were mine, the which the village thought I had In bearing with my wife, ...
And do you think that love itself (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
And do you think that love itself, Living in such an ugly house, Can prosper long? We meet and part; ...
The Yarn of the Loch Achray (John Masefield Poems)
The Loch Achray was a clipper tall With seven-and-twenty hands in all. Twenty to hand and reef and haul, A ...
Renascence (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another ...
Night Is On The Downland (John Masefield Poems)
Night is on the downland, on the lonely moorland, On the hills where the wind goes over sheep-bitten turf, Where ...
Interim (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
The room is full of you!-As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...
The Island of Skyros (John Masefield Poems)
Here, where we stood together, we three men, Before the war had swept us to the East Three thousand miles ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Menses (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
(He speaks, but to himself, being aware how it is with her) Think not I have not heard. Well-fanged the ...
Judson Stoddard (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
On a mountain top above the clouds That streamed like a sea below me I said that peak is the ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Think Not, Not For A Moment Let Your Mind (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Think not, not for a moment let your mind, Wearied with thinking, doze upon the thought That the work's done ...
Griffy the Cooper (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
The cooper should know about tubs. But I learned about life as well, And you who loiter around these graves ...
The Sequel to a Reminiscence (Amy Levy Poems)
Not in the street and not in the square, The street and square where you went and came; With shuttered ...
The Chrysolites and Rubies Bacchus Brings (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
The chrysolites and rubies Bacchus brings To crown the feast where swells the broad-vein'd brow, Where maidens blush at what ...
I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown (Louise Labe Poems)
I live, I die, I burn, I drown I endure at once chill and cold Life is at once too ...
When A Woman Loves A Man (David Lehman Poems)
When she says Margarita she means Daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, "I'll never ...
Big Hair (David Lehman Poems)
Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie tear, wanting to look like a moll in a Chandler novel. Dinner, ...
Sestina (David Lehman Poems)
for Jim Cummins In Iowa, Jim dreamed that Della Street was Anne Sexton's twin. Dave drew a comic strip called ...
Wittgenstein’s Ladder (David Lehman Poems)
"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands them eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he ...
Fanciful creators (Yahia Lababidi Poems)
What fanciful creators we are: bestowing shock absorbers on cars sprinkling tenderizer on meats and stitching wrinkle-resistant shirts Such wishful ...
Heritage (Claude McKay Poems)
Now the dead past seems vividly alive, And in this shining moment I can trace, Down through the vista of ...
Virgule (Thomas Lux Poems)
What I love about this little leaning mark is how it divides without divisiveness. The left or bottom side prying ...