by A. R. Ammons When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold itself but pours its abundance without selection into every nook and cranny ...
by Christopher Logue To welcome Hector to his death God sent a rolling thunderclap across the sky The city and the sea And momentarily—— T...
by Larry Levis The trees went up the hill And over it. Then the dry grasses of the pasture were Only a kind of blonde light Settling everywhere And fr...
by Li-Young Lee He gossips like my grandmother, this man with my face, and I could stand amused all afternoon in the Hon Kee Grocery, amid hanging mea...
by Spencer Reece I am thirty-three and working in an expensive clothier, selling suits to men I call "Sir." These men are muscled, groomed a...
by George Herbert I struck the board, and cry'd, No more. I will abroad. What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the...
by Luis J. Rodríguez We sink into the dust, Baba and me, Beneath brush of prickly leaves; Ivy strangling trees——singing Our last ri...
by Edward Lear There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!—— Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Hav...
by Thomas Hardy I In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. II Steel chambers, late...
by Ann Townsend Despair needles you with its whisper, it is agnostic, it believes in irony, like a fly‘s buzz it is perceptions, a busy blood cl...