All Poems

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Hutch

© Anne Sexton

of her arms, this was her sin:

where the wood berries bin

Coyote, with Mange

© Mark Wunderlich

Oh, Unreadable One, why
have you done this to your dumb creature?
Why have you chosen to punish the coyote

The Old Man Drew the Line

© Carl Rakosi

Ah, companero,
you were born
on the wrong day
when God was paradoxical.
You’ll have to
find yourself an old dog.

A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid

© William Schwenck Gilbert

A man who would woo a fair maid,

Should 'prentice himself to the trade;

A Lecture upon the Shadow

© John Donne

Stand still, and I will read to thee

A lecture, love, in love's philosophy.

A burst of laughter rang throughout the hall,
And Peggy's tongue, though overborne by all,
Pour'd its warm blessings, for, without control
The sweet unbridled transport of her soul
Was obviously seen, till Herbert's kiss
Stole, as it were, the eloquence of bliss.

The Intruder

© John Betjeman

My mother—preferring the strange to the tame:

Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung,

"A child in nature, as a child in years"

© Robert Laurence Binyon

A child in nature, as a child in years,
If on past hours she turn remembering eyes,
She but beholds sweet joys or gentle tears,
Flower hiding flower in her pure memories.

A Blind Woman

© Ted Kooser

She had turned her face up into

a rain of light, and came on smiling.

The Captain and the Mermaids

© William Schwenck Gilbert

I SING a legend of the sea,
So hard-a-port upon your lee!
A ship on starboard tack!
She's bound upon a private cruise -
(This is the kind of spice I use
To give a salt-sea smack).

The Sun Came

© Tony Harrison

The Sun came, Miss Brooks.
And we goofed the whole thing.
I think.
(Though ain't no vision visited my cell.)

Ox Cart Man

© Donald Hall

In October of the year,
he counts potatoes dug from the brown field,
counting the seed, counting
the cellar’s portion out,
and bags the rest on the cart’s floor.