“Nocturnes” by Skipwith Cannell
Nocturnes I Thy feet, That are like little, silver birds, Thou hast set upon pleasant ways; Therefore I will follow ...
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“Apricot Jam” by Edith Sitwell
Apricot Jam Beneath the dancing glancing green The tea is spread, amid the sheen of pinceneze (glints of thought); thus ...
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“Chanson Triste” by Edward Ramos
Chanson Triste My heart is sorrowful and my dreams are broken, The light of the sun shines not upon my ...
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“Biography” by John Masefield
Biography When I am buried, all my thoughts and adts Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts, And ...
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“Confessional” by Iris Tree
Confessional I could explain The complicated lore that drags the soul From what shall profit him To gild damnation with ...
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“French Peacock” by Marianne Moore
French Peacock In "taking charge of your possessions when you saw them," you became a golden jay. Whatever you admired ...
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“Rupert Brooke” by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Rupert Brooke Your face was lifted to the golden sky Ablaze beyond the black roofs of the square, As flame ...
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“Erinnyes” by D.H. Lawrence
Erinnyes There has been so much noise, Bleeding and shouting and dying, Clamour of death. There are so many dead, ...
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“Lacquer Prints: Paper Fishes” by Amy Lowell
"Lacquer Prints: Paper Fishes" The paper carp, At the end of its long bamboo pole, Takes the wind into its ...
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“The Exile” by Arnold James
The Exile I am kept with walls of iron from the place Where once the beechen shadow-trelissed lane Held visions ...
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“Art” by Helen Hoyt
Art At last we let each other go, And I left you: Left the demand and the desire of you, ...
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“Miss Thompson Goes Shopping” by Martin Armstrong
Miss Thompson Goes Shopping In her lone cottage on the downs, With winds and blizzards and great crowns Of shining ...
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“1915” by Richard Aldington
1915 The limbs of gods, Still, veined marble, Rest heavily in sleep Under a saffron twilight. [ . . ...
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“Barouches Noires” by Charles Orange
Barouches Noires It was when I was sitting by the side of the lake, By the side of a lake ...
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“The Little Tailor Meditates” by Jeanne D’Orge
The Little Tailor Meditates . . . My idea would be to do away with the star- manufactured ready made ...
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“The Sleeper” by Walter de la Mare
The Sleeper As Ann came in one summer's day, She felt that she must creep, So silent was the clear ...
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“The Blue Symphony” by John Gould Fletcher
The Blue SymphonyI. The darkness rolls upward.The thick darkness carries with itRain and a ravel of cloud.The sun comes forth upon ...
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“Corpse-Day” by Osbert Sitwell
Corpse-DayJuly 19th, 1919 Dusk floated up from the earth beneath,Held in the arms of the evening wind—The evening wind that ...
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