by Denise Levertov Among the blight-killed eucalypts， among trees and bushes rusted by Christmas frosts， the yards and hillsides exhausted by five yea...
by James Hearst This I saw on an April day： Warm rain spilt from a sun-lined cloud， A sky-flung wave of gold at evening， And a cock pheasant treading ...
by Kerri Webster "In Antigua I am famous. I am bathed in jasmine and pressed with warm stones." -Carnival Cruise ad in the New Yorker In Alb...
by Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd； Petals on a wet， black bough....
by Larry Levis My love and I are inventing a country， which we can already see taking shape， as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there i...
by Denise Levertov Down through the tomb's inward arch He has shouldered out into Limbo to gather them， dazed， from dreamless slumber： the mercifu...
by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you； If you can trust yourself when all men doubt ...
by Dick Allen Air out the linens， unlatch the shutters on the eastern side， and maybe find that deck of Bicycle cards lost near the sofa. Or maybe wal...
by Claude McKay If we must die——let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot， While round us bark the mad and hungry do...
by John Haines at dusk from the island in the river， and it's not too cold， I'll wait for the moon to rise， then take wing and glide to meet h...