by Jane Kenyon We lie back to back. Curtains lift and fall， like the chest of someone sleeping. Wind moves the leaves of the box elder； they show thei...
by Charles Bukowski I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed. but all I could do was to get drunk again. worse， the bar patrons even ended up ...
by Edna St. Vincent Millay "Curse thee， Life， I will live with thee no more！ Thou hast mocked me， starved me， beat my body sore！ And all for a pl...
by Thomas Hardy I "Poor wanderer，" said the leaden sky， "I fain would lighten thee， But there are laws in force on high Which say it mu...
by Theodore Roethke 1 Against the stone breakwater， Only an ominous lapping， While the wind whines overhead， Coming down from the mountain， Whistling ...
by Jesper Svenbro （Translated by John Matthias and Lars-Hakan Svensson） Late one afternoon in October I hear them for the first time： loud-voiced pala...
by Osip Mandelstam （Translated by W. S. Merwin） Our lives no longer feel ground under them. At ten paces you can't hear our words. But whenever th...
by Lord Alfred Tennyson The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story； The long light shakes across the lakes， And the wild catara...
by Lavinia Greenlaw In our game of flight， half-way down was as near mid-air as it got： a point of no return we'd fling ourselves at over and over...
by Joseph Addison The Spacious Firmament on high， With all the blue Ethereal Sky， And spangled Heav'ns， a Shining Frame， Their great Original proc...