by Alfred Corn The first will no doubt begin with morning's Stainless-steel manners and possibilities Out of number. Sunlight scold too much？ So a...
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The tide rises， the tide falls， The twilight darkens， the curlew calls； Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveller...
by Anthony Hecht I'm mighty glad to see you， Mrs. Curtis， And thank you very kindly for this visit Especially now when all the others here Are hav...
by Claude McKay Bananas ripe and green， and ginger root Cocoa in pods and alligator pears， And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit， Fit for the hig...
by Rafael Pérez Estrada Translated by Steven J. Stewart One of her nipples was red， tepid， carnal； the other， blue， looked made for death's...
by Homer （Translated by Robert Fitzgerald） An old trunk of olive grew like a pillar on the building plot， and I laid out our bedroom round that tree， ...
by Joan Murray 1 It's mid-September， and in the Magic Wing Butterfly Conservancy in Deerfield， Massachusetts， the woman at the register is ringing...
by Christine Hume I'm not right. I'm interfered with and bent as light. I tried to use the spots， for months I tried with rings. Only now I...
by Anne Sexton Gone， I say and walk from church， refusing the stiff procession to the grave， letting the dead ride alone in the hearse. It is June. I ...
by Marilyn Nelson The Lutherans sit stolidly in rows； only their children feel the holy ghost that makes them jerk and bobble and almost destroys the ...