I Started Early: Took My Dog By Unknown I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea, The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me. And frigates in the upper floor Extended hempen hands, Presuming me…
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Fletcher McGee
Fletcher McGee By Edgar Lee Masters She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That saps the spinning world. The days went by like shadows, The minutes wheeled like…
Sonnet 9
Sonnet 9 By William Shakespeare When the world had made a lover of thee Who knows, when thou canst be a husband? When a man begets no child, what hope is there? And if I am so vain, I will…
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven By William Butler Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths, Of night and light and the half-light, I…
When I am Dead, My Dearest
When I am Dead, My Dearest By Christina Rossetti When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers…
The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm
The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm By Unknown Author The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was…
On Being Human
On Being Human Author unknown Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archetypes, all the verities Which mortals lack or indirectly learn. Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying, Pure Earthness and right…
Al Claro De Luna (In the Light of the Moon)
Al Claro De Luna (In the Light of the Moon) by Delmira Agustini The moon is pallid and sad, the moon is bloodless and cold. I imagine the half‑moon as a profile of the dead… Beyond the pallor of Arab…
I Know My Soul
I Know My Soul By Claude McKay I plucked my soul out of its secret place, And held it to the mirror of my eye, To see it like a star against the sky, A twitching body quivering in space,…
Lana Turner Has Collapsed
Lana Turner Has Collapsed By Frank O’Hara I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hail hits you on the head, so it was really snowing and raining and I…
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed 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 air, am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, thro’…
A Route of Evanescence
A Route of Evanescence By Emily Dickinson A Route of Evanescence, With a revolving Wheel, A Resonance of Emerald A Rush of Cochineal And every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts its tumbled head Mail from Tunis, probably, An easy Morning’s…
Inventory
Inventory By Dorothy Parker Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I’d been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never…
The House of Life 19 Silent Noon
Silent Noon By Dante Gabriel Rossetti Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, and The fingers point like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms ’Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass. All around…
From the Dark Tower
From the Dark Tower By an Anonymous Poet We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; Not everlastlessly while others…
As Froth on the Face of the Deep
As Froth on the Face of the Deep By Christina Rossetti As froth on the face of the deep, As foam on the crest of the sea, As dreams at the waking of sleep, As gourd of a day and…
Wilderness
Wilderness There is a wolf in me, a fox in me, a hog in me, a fish in me, a baboon in me, an eagle in me, and a mockingbird in me. I got a zoo, I got a menagerie,…
All Hallows’ Eve
All Hallows’ Eve By Dorothea Tanning Be perfect, make it otherwise. Yesterday is torn in shreds. Lightning’s thousand sulfur eyes Rip apart the breathing beds. Hear bones crack and pulverize. Doom creeps in on rubber treads. Countless overwrought housewives, Minds…
Leviticus 18:22
Verse Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination – Leviticus 18:22 Meaning of Leviticus 18:22 The meaning of the verse, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” is that God…
John 13:34
Verse A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another – John 13:34 Meaning of John 13:34 The meaning of the verse, “A new commandment I…