POEM SHELF
Poems
An archive of poems, with poet, tag, search, and sorting filters.
La figlia Che Piange / Thomas Stearns Eliot STAND on the highest pavement of the stair-- Lean on a garden urn-- Weave, weave the sunlight in...
Gerontion / Thomas Stearns Eliot Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, an old man in...
Conversation Galante / Thomas Stearns Eliot Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John's balloon Or an old battered lantern h...
Hysteria / Thomas Stearns Eliot laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I w...
Sweeney Erect / Thomas Stearns Eliot And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and be...
Burbank With A Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar / Thomas Stearns Eliot Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire--nil nisi divinum stabile est; caetera fumus...
Journey of the Magi / Thomas Stearns EliotA cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey...
Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came / Robert BrowningMy first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye As...
The Face of Garbo / Roland BarthesGarbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into th...
America / Allen GinsbergAmerica I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't...
The Raven / Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotte...
The Haunted Palace / Edgar Allan Poe In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace-...
Rabbi Ben Ezra / Robert BrowningGrow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are...
Machine / Violent Femmesi got a machine and i took over the world in one weekend i took over the world with my machine (i got a machine) i d...
Never Tell / Violent FemmesHey sister, have you heard? Some people stand like trees, without a word and what that means is that some people...
The Waste Land / Thomas Stearns EliotThe Burial of the Dead | A Game of Chess | The Fire Sermon | Death By Water | What the Thunder Said ooo...
Famous Blue Raincoat / Leonard CohenIt's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New York...
Tiger! Tiger! / William BlakeTiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful sym...
An deinen blonden Haaren mein irres Herz fesselten sie, kann nicht freigesetzt werden Mihriban ? Der Tod ist nicht heftiger als Trennung an...
The first light greets your branches with reverence, Your crest smiles beyond the horizon. You hear the whisper of the winds leaf by leaf, R...
Sometimes as I sit I fall into a reverie, Seeing my darkened past As ever-widening circles In an imaginary day-dream. I fall like a stone In...
A ghostly child Seems to run and run Through the dust, Leaving a trail. The wind draws wide ellipses, Erasing what it drew. He climbs on to...
In a lonely September garden, I sit with my cup of coffee, My cognac and my book, Turning over deep thoughts. The wind blows through The pag...
and the dance begins again by jumping with clouds not scared from lightings around happy on the white some strange mist on eyebraws -they ar...