Category Archives: Poems
Good Timber
by Douglas Malloch The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and [...]
The Fish
– Elizabeth Bishop I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half [...]
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s [...]
Reply to the Question: “How can You Become a Poet?”
by Eve Merriam take the leaf of a tree trace its exact shape the outside [...]
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
E. E. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have [...]
The Smile
Ted Hughes Began under the groan of the oldest forest It ran through the clouds, [...]
“AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS”
By Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a [...]
Sonnet – To Time
by Sylvia Plath Today we move in jade and cease with garnet amid the clicking [...]
To a Blank Sheet of Paper
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) WAN-VISAGED thing! thy virgin leaf To me looks more than deadly [...]
To Her Father with Some Verses
Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) Most truly honored, and as truly dear, If worth in [...]