The Sand-Hill Crane (Mary Austin Poems)
WHENEVER the days are cool and clear, The sand-hill crane goes walkingAcross the field by the flashing weir, Slowly, solemnly stalking.The little ...
Walking Poems (743 Poems)
Hymn V. Behold! the mountain of the Lord (John Logan Poems)
Behold! the mountain of the LordIn latter days shall rise,Above the mountains and the hills,And draw the wondering eyes.To this ...
Go, ill-sped book (John Berryman Poems)
Go, ill-sped book, and whisper to her orstorm out the message for her only earthat she is beautiful.Mention sunsets, be ...
Mithridatum of Despair (Max Harris Poems)
We know no mithridatum of despairas drunks, the angry penguins of the night,straddling the cobbles of the square,tying a shoelace ...
As I was walking (Walter de la Mare Poems)
As I was walking,Thyme sweet to my nose,Green grasshoppers talking,Rose rivalling rose:And wing, like amber,Dispread in light,As from bush to ...
Time Of The Missile (George Oppen Poems)
I remember a square of New York's Hudson River glinting between warehouses.Difficult to approach the water below the pierSwirling, covered ...
Emigre in Autumn (Dana Gioia Poems)
Walking down the garden pathFrom the house you do not own,Once again you think of howCool the autumns were at ...
“He Shall Wipe Away Every Tear” (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Every tear that dims the eye, Or bedews the careworn cheek,Will our God, who reigns on high, With a hand so kind ...
Be Music, Night (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
Be music, night,That her sleep may goWhere angels have their pale tall choirsBe a hand, sea,That her dreams may watchThy ...
Two Poems: (Numbers i and x in ‘Strange Meetings.’) (Harold Monro Poems)
IIf suddenly a clod of earth should rise,And walk about, and breathe, and speak, and love,How one would tremble, and ...
Summons (Robert Francis Poems)
Keep me from going to sleep too soonOr if I go to sleep too soonCome wake me up. Come any ...
Walking At Eve (John Freeman Poems)
Walking at eve I met a little childRunning beside a tragic-featured dame,Who checked his blitheness with a quick "For shame!"And ...
Triste, Triste (Gwen Harwood Poems)
In the space between love and sleepwhen heart mourns in its prisoneyes against shoulder keeptheir blood-black curtains tight.Body rolls back ...
A Little Catechism From The Demon (Edwin Morgan Poems)
What is a demon? Study my life.What is a mountain? Set out now.What is fire? It is for ever.What is ...
New Fruitage (Isobel Stone Poems)
Seeing you as you left that nightMirrored softly in the haze of light,Walking through the tall grasses as blackAs our ...
Runaway (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
There are sparkles of rain on the brightHair over your forehead;Your eyes are wet and your lipsWet and cold, your ...
Westland Row (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Every Sunday there's a throngOf pretty girls, who trot alongIn a pious, breathless state(They are nearly always late)To the Chapel, ...
Songs Set To Music: 25. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Since, Moggy, I mun bid adieu,How can I help despairing?Let cruel Fate us still pursue,There's nought more worth my caring.'Twas ...
Alcide (William Matthews Poems)
Walking with Jesus the slow,behind the beat. Mr. Resistance.Mr. Ohm, Mr. Exactly Lame.By some reluctance, somerestraint, if it be a ...
The Dandelions (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
Upon a showery night and still,Without a sound of warning,A trooper band surprised the hill,And held it in the morning.We ...
When the body might free (Ivor Gurney Poems)
When the body might tree, and there was use in walking,In October time - crystal air-time and free words were ...
News of (Carol Snow Poems)
another massacre; and the clean bright morning.Keeping walking. 'Contradiction' is human -- I know that.And 'knowing'... A stirring from the ...
I Used To Watch You (Ozdemir Asaf Poems)
Your hair would waver in the wind.Nearby, I used to watch you.The sun would burn, the sea be burnt.You'd talk, ...
The Broken Tryst (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Walking alone where we walked together, When June was breezy and blue,I watch in the gray autumnal weather The leaves fall inconstant ...
Along the hard crust of deep snows (Anna Akhmatova Poems)
Along the hard crust of deep snows,To the secret, white house of yours,So gentle and quiet - we bothAre walking, ...
The High Hills have a bitterness (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The high hills have a bitternessNow they are not knownAnd memory is poor enough consolationFor the soul helpless gone.Up in ...
The Sun (John Drinkwater Poems)
I told the Sun that I was glad,I'm sure I don't know why;Somehow the pleasant way he hadOf shining in ...
Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Dorking (Edward Lear Poems)
There was a Young Lady of Dorking,Who bought a large bonnet for walking;But its colour and size,So bedazzled her eyes,That ...
Tanka 11 (Masaoka Shiki Poems)
I remember pluckingbuds of bush cloverlong ago withSatsuma geta on my feet anda walking stick in my hand (Masaoka Shiki)
Somnium Mystici (George MacDonald Poems)
A Microcosm In Terza RimaI.Quiet I lay at last, and knew no moreWhether I breathed or not, so worn I ...