All Poems
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Year’s End
© Lola Ridge
Now winter downs the dying of the year,
And night is all a settlement of snow;
From the soft street the rooms of houses show
A gathered light, a shapen atmosphere,
Like frozen-over lakes whose ice is thin
And still allows some stirring down within.
A Pastoral Betwixt David, Thirsis, And The Angel Gabriel, Upon The Birth Of Our Saviour
© James Thomson
THIRSIS.
But hold, see hither through the yielding air
An angel comes: for mighty news prepare.
Football
© Louis Jenkins
I take the snap from the center, fake to the right, fade back...
I've got protection. I've got a receiver open downfield...
Goody Blake And Harry Gill
© William Wordsworth
A True Story
OH! what's the matter? what's the matter?
What is't that ails young Harry Gill?
That evermore his teeth they chatter,
Where I Live in This Honorable House of the Laurel Tree
© Anne Sexton
I live in my wooden legs and O
my green green hands.
Fatherless
© Lesbia Harford
I've had no man
To guard and shelter me,
Guide and instruct me
From mine infancy.
The Beggars
© Rainer Maria Rilke
You didn't know
what was in the heap. A visitor found
it to contain beggars. They sell the hollow
of their hands.
Creed
© Gabriela Mistral
I believe in my heart that when
The wounded heart sunk within the depth of God sings
It rises from the pond alive
As if new-born.
Paradise Regain'd: Book IV (1671)
© Patrick Kavanagh
PErplex'd and troubl'd at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
The Rock In The Sea
© Archibald MacLeish
Think of our blindness where the water burned!
Are we so certain that those wings, returned
And turning, we had half discerned
Before our dazzled eyes had surely seen
The bird aloft there, did not mean?
Our hearts so seized upon the sign!
When Bells stop ringingChurchbegins
© Emily Dickinson
When Bells stop ringingChurchbegins
The Positiveof Bells
When Cogsstopthat's Circumference
The Ultimateof Wheels.
This Peach Is Pink With Such A Pink
© Norman Rowland Gale
This peach is pink with such a pink
As suits the peach divinely;
The cunning colour rarely spread
Fades to the yellow finely;
But where to spy the truest pink
Is in my Love's soft cheek, I think.
from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza XIV
© Gertrude Stein
She need not be selfish but he may add
They like my way it is partly mine
What Is Prayer?
© James Montgomery
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Unuttered or expressed;
The motion of a hidden fire,
That trembles in the breast.
St Vincent’s
© William Stanley Merwin
eyes open and ears to hear
these years across from St Vincent’s Hospital
above whose roof those clouds rose
A Little Litany
© Gilbert Keith Chesterton
When God turned back eternity and was young,
Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth
(As under the low arch the land is bright)
Peered through you, gate of heaven-and saw the earth.
The Berg (A Dream)
© Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
I saw a ship of martial build
(Her standards set, her brave apparel on)
Fame is a bee. (1788)
© Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee.
It has a song—
It has a sting—
Ah, too, it has a wing.
The Fly
© Ishmael Reed
O hideous little bat, the size of snot,
With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,
