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Biscuit
The dog has cleaned his bowl
and his reward is a biscuit,
which I put in his mouth
like... more

Poet: Jane Kenyon

by: Jane Kenyon | category: Art Poetry | rating:

If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on... more

Poet: Rudyard Kipling

by: Rudyard Kipling | category: Family Poetry | rating:

Recessional (A Victorian Ode)
God of our fathers, known of old --
Lord of our far-flung battle line --
Beneath whose... more

Poet: Rudyard Kipling

by: Rudyard Kipling | category: Religion Poetry | rating:

A Ballad of Burial
("Saint Proxed's ever was the Church for peace")
If down here I chance to... more

Poet: Rudyard Kipling

by: Rudyard Kipling | category: Sad Poetry | rating:

New Year's Morning
Only a night from old to new!
Only a night, and so much wrought!
The Old Year's heart... more

Poet: Helen Hunt Jackson

by: Helen Hunt Jackson | category: Wish Poetry | rating:

Tides
O patient shore, thou canst not go to meet
Thy love, the restless sea, how... more

Poet: Helen Hunt Jackson

by: Helen Hunt Jackson | category: Love Poetry | rating:

A Chorus
Over the surging tides and the mountain kingdoms,
Over the pastoral valleys and the... more

Poet: Elizabeth Jennings

by: Elizabeth Jennings | category: Sad Poetry | rating:

Nearly A Valediction
You happened to me. I was happened to
like an abandoned building by a bull-
dozer, like... more

Poet: Marilyn Hacker

by: Marilyn Hacker | category: Art Poetry | rating:

Scars on Paper
An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch,
she freed my breasts from the camp Empire... more

Poet: Marilyn Hacker

by: Marilyn Hacker | category: Death Poetry | rating:

Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall, in a world of wigs,
Flouted opinion in his personal hair;
For foppery he... more

Poet: Anthony Hecht

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