Sonnet 18 (John Milton Poems)
XVIII Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of Brittish Themis, with no mean applause Pronounc't and in his volumes ...
Time Poems (10900 Poems)
Never To Dream Of Spiders (Audre Lorde Poems)
Time collapses between the lips of strangers my days collapse into a hollow tube soon implodes against now like an ...
Fifth Amendment (David Lehman Poems)
The fear of perjuring herself turned into a tacit Admission of her guilt. Yet she had the skill And the ...
Goodbat Nightman (Roger McGough Poems)
God bless all policemen and fighters of crime, May thieves go to jail for a very long time. They've had ...
Reveille (Primo Levi Poems)
In the brutal nights we used to dream Dense violent dreams, Dreamed with soul and body: To return; to eat; ...
Tenth Commandment (David Lehman Poems)
The woman said yes she would go to Australia with him Unless he heard wrong and she said Argentina Where ...
The ABC (Spike Milligan Poems)
'Twas midnight in the schoolroom And every desk was shut When suddenly from the alphabet Was heard a loud "Tut-Tut!" ...
The Widening Spell Of Leaves (Larry Levis Poems)
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
Ninth Inning (David Lehman Poems)
He woke up in New York City on Valentine's Day, Speeding. The body in the booth next to his was ...
Unto Us… (Spike Milligan Poems)
Somewhere at some time They committed themselves to me And so, I was! Small, but I WAS! Tiny, in shape ...
Town Owl (Laurie Lee Poems)
On eves of cold, when slow coal fires, rooted in basements, burn and branch, brushing with smoke the city air; ...
Operation Memory (David Lehman Poems)
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...
When I Suspected (Spike Milligan Poems)
There will be a time when it will end. Be it parting Be it death So each passing minute with ...
A June-Tide Echo (Amy Levy Poems)
(After a Richter Concert.) In the long, sad time, when the sky was grey, And the keen blast blew through ...
June 6 (David Lehman Poems)
No two are identical though they begin from the same point in time the same point in the dream when ...
Alexander (Walter de la Mare Poems)
It was the Great Alexander, Capped with a golden helm, Sate in the ages, in his floating ship, In a ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
On my Sister Joanna’s Entrance into Her 33rd Year (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
On this thy natal day permit a friend - A brother - with thy joys his own to blend: In ...
Martha (Walter de la Mare Poems)
"Once...Once upon a time..." Over and over again, Martha would tell us her stories, In the hazel glen. Hers were ...
Smoke (Philip Levine Poems)
Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? It was. The city was vanishing before noon or was it earlier ...
An Argument (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS We find your soft Utopias as white As new-cut ...
Hymns Of The Marshes. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
The Harlequin Of Dreams (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found, Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep, Thou, giant Harlequin of ...
Any Night (Philip Levine Poems)
Look, the eucalyptus, the Atlas pine, the yellowing ash, all the trees are gone, and I was older than all ...
Queen Mab in the Village (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Once I loved a fairy, Queen Mab it was. Her voice Was like a little Fountain That bids the birds ...
In Absence. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. The storm that snapped our fate's one ship in twain Hath blown my half o' the wreck from thine ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
For The Country (Philip Levine Poems)
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...
How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Oh, once I walked in Heaven, all alone Upon the sacred cliffs above the sky. God and the angels, and ...
Laughter In The Senate (Sidney Lanier Poems)
In the South lies a lonesome, hungry Land; He huddles his rags with a cripple's hand; He mutters, prone on ...