Stars by A. E. Housman "Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt."

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Roman Wall Blues by W. H. Auden "Over the heather the wet wind blows, I've lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose. The rain comes pattering out of the sky, I'm a Wall soldier, I don't know why"...

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Cuttings by Theodore Roethke "This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks, Cut stems struggling to put down feet, What saint strained so much, Rose on such lopped limbs to a new life?"...

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Alone by Maya Angelou "Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone"...

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The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain by Wallace Stevens "There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table"...

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Across The Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield " Across the red sky two birds flying, Flying with drooping wings. Silent and solitary their ominous flight"...

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One From One Leaves Two by Ogden Nash "Higgledy piggledy, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To count what my black hen doth lay. If perchance she lays too many, They fine my hen a pretty penny"...

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Through These Pale Cold Days by Isaac Rosenberg "Through these pale cold days What dark faces burn Out of three thousand years, And their wild eyes yearn"...

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'Fall, leaves, fall' by Emily Bronte "Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree"...

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The Falling Of The Leaves by William Butler Yeats "Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves"...

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The World is With Me by Thomas Hood "The world is with me, and its many cares, Its woes--its wants--the anxious hopes and fears That wait on all terrestrial affairs"...

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Her breast is fit for pearls by Emily Dickinson "Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a "Diver" -- Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest. Her heart is fit for home -- I -- a Sparrow -- build there Sweet of twigs and twine My perennial nest."

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The Castle by Edwin Muir "All through that summer at ease we lay, And daily from the turret wall We watched the mowers in the hay And the enemy half a mile away They seemed no threat to us at all"...

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The Crescent Moon by Amy Lowell "Slipping softly through the sky Little horned, happy moon, Can you hear me up so high? Will you come down soon"...

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Laughing Rose by William Henry Davies "If I were gusty April now, How I would blow at laughing Rose; I'd make her ribbons slip their knots, And all her hair come loose"...

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The Twilight Turns by James Joyce "The twilight turns from amethyst To deep and deeper blue, The lamp fills with a pale green glow The trees of the avenue"...

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Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh "Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption for me, that I do The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the banal, Grow with nature again as before I grew"...

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My November Guest by Robert Frost "My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree"...

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The Death Of Autumn by Edna St. Vincent Millay "When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes, And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind"...

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Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson "In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfires See the smoke trail"...

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The Rambler by Thomas Hardy "I do not see the hills around, Nor mark the tints the copses wear; I do not note the grassy ground And constellated daisies there"...

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Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon " Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves down"...

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Rapids by A. R. Ammons "Fall's leaves are redder than spring's flowers, have no pollen, and also sometimes fly, as the wind"...

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Dream Land by Christina Rossetti "Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmed sleep: Awake her not. Led by a single star, She came from very far To seek where shadows are Her pleasant lot"...

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The Ghost by Sara Teasdale " I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed, But my heart was full of my new love's glory, My eyes were laughing and unafraid"...

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October By Robert Frost "O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; To-morrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all"...

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Coda by Dorothy Parker "There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine; This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine"...

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Absence by Elizabeth Jennings "I visited the place where we last met. Nothing was changed, the gardens were well-tended, The fountains sprayed their usual steady jet; There was no sign that anything had ended And nothing to instruct me to forget"...

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it is at moments after I have dreamed by E. E. Cummings " it is at moments after i have dreamed of the rare entertainment of your eyes, when(being fool to fancy)i have deemed with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise"...

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On Looking for Models by Alan Dugan "The trees in time have something else to do besides their treeing. What is it. I'm a starving to death man myself, and thirsty, thirsty by their fountains but I cannot drink their mud and sunlight to be whole"...

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Losing Track by Denise Levertov "Long after you have swung back away from me I think you are still with me"...

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Freedom by Ambrose Bierce "Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell"...

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The Sloth by Theodore Roethke "In moving-slow he has no Peer. You ask him something in his Ear, He thinks about it for a Year"...

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Harvest by Kathleen Raine "Day is the hero's shield, Achilles' field, The light days are the angels. We the seed"...

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A Blessing by James Wright "Just off the Highway to Rochester, Minnesota Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass"...

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More Than Myself by Anne Sexton " Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there"...

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A Spell Before Winter by Howard Nemerov "After the red leaf and the gold have gone, Brought down by the wind, then by hammering rain"...

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Forth went the candid man by Stephen Crane "Forth went the candid man And spoke freely to the wind -- When he looked about him he was in a far strange country"...

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Five Flights Up by Elizabeth Bishop "Still dark. The unknown bird sits on his usual branch. The little dog next door barks in his sleep inquiringly, just once"...

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For a while Let it be enough: The responsive smile, Though effort goes into it "...

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The Alchemist by Louise Bogan "I burned my life, that I may find A passion wholly of the mind, Thought divorced from eye and bone Ecstasy come to breath alone"...

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My Kingdom by Louisa May Alcott "A little kingdom I possess where thoughts and feelings dwell, And very hard I find the task of governing it well"...

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Happiness by Carl Sandburg "I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them"...

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When I'm Killed by Robert Graves "When I?m killed, don?t think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good"...

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A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A trusting little leaf of green, A bold audacious frost; A rendezvous, a kiss or two, And youth for ever lost"...

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A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty by Ogden Nash "Unwillingly Miranda wakes, Feels the sun with terror, One unwilling step she takes, Shuddering to the mirror"...

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Autumn by William Morris "Laden Autumn here I stand Worn of heart, and weak of hand: Nought but rest seems good to me, Speak the word that sets me free."

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When I Was One-and-Twenty by A. E. Housman "When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away"...

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The Night I Was Going To Die by Charles Bukowski "the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside"...

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In the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg "I snatched two poppies From the parapet?s ledge, Two bright red poppies That winked on the ledge"...

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Nantucket by William Carlos Williams "Flowers through the window lavender and yellow changed by white curtains? Smell of cleanliness"...

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What Fifty Said by Robert Frost "When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. I suffered like a metal being cast. I went to school to age to learn the past"...

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Escape by Elinor Wylie "When foxes eat the last gold grape, And the last white antelope is killed, I shall stop fighting and escape Into a little house I'll build"...

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Continual Conversation With A Silent Man by Wallace Stevens "The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die-- The broken cartwheel on the hill"...

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Traveling Through The Dark by William Stafford "Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead"...

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Autumn Valentine by Dorothy Parker " In May my heart was breaking- Oh, wide the wound, and deep! And bitter it beat at waking, And sore it split in sleep"...

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To You. by Walt Whitman "Let us twain walk aside from the rest; Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony, Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none?Tell me the whole story, Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife, husband, or physician."

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A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield "To and fro, to and fro In my little boat I go Sailing far across the sea All alone, just little me. And the sea is big and strong And the journey very long"...

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Interior by Hart Crane "It sheds a shy solemnity, This lamp in our poor room. O grey and gold amenity, -- Silence and gentle gloom"...

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The Reason by Stevie Smith "My life is vile I hate it so I'll wait awhile And then I'll go"...

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Petals by Amy Lowell "Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start"...

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The Voice by Thomas Hardy "Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair"...

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This Morning by Raymond Carver "This morning was something. A little snow lay on the ground. The sun floated in a clear blue sky. The sea was blue, and blue-green, as far as the eye could see"...

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Give Me a Doctor by W. H. Auden "Give me a doctor partridge-plump, Short in the leg and broad in the rump, An endomorph with gentle hands Who'll never make absurd demands That I abandon all my vices"...

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Solitude by Anna Akhmatova "So many stones have been thrown at me, That I'm not frightened of them anymore, And the pit has become a solid tower, Tall among tall towers"...

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Does It Pay? by Ella Wheeler Wilcox "If one poor burdened toiler o?er life?s road, Who meets us by the way, Goes on less conscious of his galling load, Then life, indeed, does pay"...

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Her Kind by Anne Sexton "I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light"...

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n The Poppy Field by James Stephens "Mad Patsy said, he said to me, That every morning he could see An angel walking on the sky; Across the sunny skies of morn He threw great handfuls far and nigh"...

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Drying Their Wings by Vachel Lindsay "What the Carpenter Said The moon's a cottage with a door. Some folks can see it plain. Look, you may catch a glint of light, A sparkle through the pane"...

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Those Two by Allen Ginsberg 'That tree said I don't like that white car under me, it smells gasoline That other tree next to it said O you're always complaining you're a neurotic you can see by the way you're bent over."

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First Day at School by Roger McGough "A millionbillionwillion miles from home Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?) Why are they all so big, other children"...

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September by Lucy Maud Montgomery "Lo! a ripe sheaf of many golden days Gleaned by the year in autumn's harvest ways, With here and there, blood-tinted as an ember, Some crimson poppy of a late delight"...

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Mistrust by George William Russell "You look at me with wan, bright eyes When in the deeper world I stray: You fear some hidden ambush lies In wait to call me, ?Come away?...

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Paradise Seed by Kathleen Raine "Where is the seed Of the tree felled, Of the forest burned, Or living root Under ash and cinders"...

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A Chorus by Elizabeth Jennings "Over the surging tides and the mountain kingdoms, Over the pastoral valleys and the meadows, Over the cities with their factory darkness"...

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Affection by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The earth that made the rose, She also is thy mother, and not I. The flame wherewith thy maiden spirit glows Was lighted at no hearth that I sit by"...

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The Life Beyond by Rupert Brooke "He wakes, who never thought to wake again, Who held the end was Death. He opens eyes Slowly, to one long livid oozing plain"...

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Still Life by Carl Sandburg "Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car. Let the engineer open her up for ninety miles an hour"...

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The Window by Conrad Aiken "She looks out in the blue morning and sees a whole wonderful world she looks out in the morning and sees a whole world"...

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The Prisoners by Robert Hayden "Steel doors ? guillotine gates ? of the doorless house closed massively. We were locked in with loss"...

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The Bee is not afraid of me. by Emily Dickinson "The Bee is not afraid of me. I know the Butterfly. The pretty people in the Woods Receive me cordially -- The Brooks laugh louder when I come -- The Breezes madder play; Wherefore mine eye thy silver mists, Wherefore, Oh Summer's Day?"

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Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield "Outside the sky is light with stars; There's a hollow roaring from the sea. And, alas! for the little almond flowers, The wind is shaking the almond tree"...

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Longing by Matthew Arnold "Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For so the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day"...

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Romance by Edgar Allan Poe "Romance, who loves to nod and sing With drowsy head and folded wing Among the green leaves as they shake Far down within some shadowy lake"...

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a pretty a day by E. E. Cummings "a pretty a day (and every fades) is here and away (but born are maids to flower an hour in all,all)"...

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The Worst And The Best by Charles Bukowski "in the hospitals and jails it's the worst in madhouses it's the worst in penthouses it's the worst in skid row flophouses it's the worst"...

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A Pinch of Salt by Robert Graves "When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain"...

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Stars Wheel in Purple by Hilda Doolittle "Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star as bright Aldeboran or Sirius, nor yet the stained and brilliant one of War"...

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Grown Up by Edna St. Vincent Millay "Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?"

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Misgivings by Herman Melville "When ocean-clouds over inland hills Sweep storming in late autumn brown, And horror the sodden valley fills, And the spire falls crashing in the town, I muse upon my country's ills"...

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Good Hours by Robert Frost "I had for my winter evening walk-- No one at all with whom to talk, But I had the cottages in a row Up to their shining eyes in snow"...

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I threw my arms about those shoulders by Joseph Brodsky "I threw my arms about those shoulders, glancing at what emerged behind that back, and saw a chair pushed slightly forward, merging now with the lighted wall"...

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I Am Not Alone by Gabriela Mistral "The night, it is deserted from the mountains to the sea. But I, the one who rocks you, I am not alone"...

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Thought Of You by Sara Teasdale "I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone"...

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The Garret by Ezra Pound "Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers"...

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The Seeker by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I sought for my happiness over the world, Oh, eager and far was my quest; I sought it on mountain and desert and sea, I asked it of east and of west"...

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Blindness by George William Russell "Our true hearts are forever lonely: A wistfulness is in our thought: Our lights are like the dawns which only Seem bright to us and yet are not"...

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She Dried Her Tears by Emily Bronte "She dried her tears and they did smile To see her cheeks' returning glow How little dreaming all the while That full heart throbbed to overflow"...

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Love is Enough by William Morris "Love is enough: though the World be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining"...

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ll That's Past by Walter de la Mare "Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake"...

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