by Emily Dickinson I taste a liquor never brewed - From Tankards scooped in Pearl - Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! Inebriate of ...
by Walt Whitman 1 I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, re...
by Agha Shahid Ali By dark the world is once again intact, Or so the mirrors, wiped clean, try to reason. . . ——James Merrill This dream o...
by Lorine Niedecker I rose from marsh mud, algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs to see her wed in the rich rich silence of th...
by Edward Thomas I never saw that land before, And now can never see it again; Yet, as if by acquaintance hoar Endeared, by gladness and by pain, Grea...
by Kirsten Dierking For a short time after the rape, I found I could move things. Energy birds swarmed from my brain. With a witch's sense of aban...
by Emily Dickinson I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes - I wonder if It weighs like Mine - Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They...
by Emily Dickinson I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air - Between the Heaves of Storm - The ...
by Jane Mead I have been living closer to the ocean than I thought—— in a rocky cove thick with seaweed. It pulls me down when I go wading...
by Rafael Guillén Translated by Sandy McKinney I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I c...