The lake

Lost
DESOLATE and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The... more

Poet: Carl Sandburg

by: Carl Sandburg | category: Sad Poetry | rating:

Midnight in Camp
Night in the unslumbering forest! From the free,
Vast pinelands by the foot of man... more

Poet: Lucy Maud Montgomery

by: Lucy Maud Montgomery | category: Dark Poetry | rating:

The Dying Of Pere Pierre
". . . with two other priests; the same night he died,
and was buried by the shores... more

Poet: John McCrae

by: John McCrae | category: Death Poetry | rating:

Night-Scented Stock
White, white in the milky night
The moon danced over a tree.
"Wouldn't it be lovely... more

Poet: Katherine Mansfield

by: Katherine Mansfield | category: Dark Poetry | rating:

The Quest
High, hollowed in green
above the rocks of reason
lies the crater lake
whose ice the... more

Poet: Denise Levertov

by: Denise Levertov | category: Love Poetry | rating:

The Wreck of the Hesperus
It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintry sea;
And the skipper had taken his... more

Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | category: Art Poetry | rating:

After the Earthquake
After the first astounding rush,
after the weeks at the lake,
the crystal, the clouds,... more

Poet: Erica Jong

by: Erica Jong | category: Sad Poetry | rating:

The Black Swan
When the swans turned my sister into a swan
I would go to the lake, at night, from... more

Poet: Randall Jarrell

by: Randall Jarrell | category: Family Poetry | rating:

The End Of The Weekend
A dying firelight slides along the quirt
Of the cast iron cowboy where he leans
Against... more

Poet: Anthony Hecht

by: Anthony Hecht | category: Art Poetry | rating:

Song of Fortune VI
Man and I are sweethearts
He craves me and I long for him,
But alas! Between us has... more

Poet: Khalil Gibran

by: Khalil Gibran | category: Music Poetry | rating: