Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
The Hunter In The Snow
The over-all picture is wintericy mountainsin the background the returnfrom the hunt it is toward eveningfrom the leftsturdy hunters lead intheir..
© William Carlos Williams
Great Mullen
One leaves his leaves at homebeomg a mullen and sends up a lighthouseto peer from: I will have my way,yellow--A mast with a lantern, tenfifty, a..
© William Carlos Williams
Hic Jacet
The coroner's merry little childrenHave such twinkling brown eyes.Their father is not of gay menAnd their mother jocular in no wise,Yet the coroner's..
© William Carlos Williams
Young Sycamore
I must tell youthis young treewhose round and firm trunkbetween the wetpavement and the gutter(where wateris trickling) risesbodilyinto the air..
© William Carlos Williams
Slow Movement
All those treasures that lie in the little bolted box whose tiny space isMightier than the room of the stars, being secret and filled with dreams:All..
© William Carlos Williams
Flowers By The Sea
When over the flowery, sharp pasture'sedge, unseen, the salt oceanlifts its form-chicory and daisiestied, released, seem hardly flowers alonebut..
© William Carlos Williams
The Spouts
In this world ofas fine a pair of breastsas ever I sawthe fountain inMadison Squarespouts up of watera white treethat dies and livesas the rocking..
© William Carlos Williams
The Disputants
Upon the table in their bowlin violent disarrayof yellow sprays, green spikesof leaves, red pointed petalsand curled heads of blueand white among the..
© William Carlos Williams
Heel & Toe To The End
Gagarin says, in ecstasy,he could havegone on foreverhe floatedat and sangand when he emerged from thatone hundred eight minutes offthe surface ofthe..
© William Carlos Williams
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee
By N. Scott MomadayI am a feather on the bright skyI am the blue horse that runs in the plainI am the fish that rolls, shining, in the waterI am the..
© Thanksgiving Day
Slant
By Suji Kwock KimIf the angle of an eye is all, the slant of hope, the slant of dreaming, according to each life,what is the light of this..
© Thanksgiving Day
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By Ross GayFriends, will you bear with me today,for I have awakenedfrom a dream in which a robinmade with its shabby wings a kind of veilbehind..
© Thanksgiving Day
Thanks
By W. S. MerwinListenwith the night falling we are saying thank youwe are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railingswe are running out of the..
© Thanksgiving Day
The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day
By Lydia Maria ChildOver the river, and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way, To carry the..
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First Thanksgiving
By Sharon OldsWhen she comes back, from college, I will seethe skin of her upper arms, cool,matte, glossy. She will hug me, my oldsoupy chest..
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Thanksgiving for Two
By Marjorie SaiserThe adults we call our children will not be arrivingwith their children in tow for Thanksgiving.We must make our feast..
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Bless Their Hearts
By Richard NewmanAt Steak ‘n Shake I learned that if you add“Bless their hearts” after their names, you can saywhatever you want about them and it’s..
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Totem
By Eamon GrennanAll Souls’ over, the roast seeds eaten, I set on a backporch post our sculpted pumpkin under the weather, warm still for..
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Yam
By Bruce GuernseyThe potato that ate all its carrots,can see in the dark like a mole,its eyes the scarsfrom centuries of shovels, tines.May spelled..
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Stomackes
By Albert GoldbarthWe know far more about the philosophical underpinnings of Puritanism than we do about what its practitioners consumed at..
© Thanksgiving Day
Perhaps the World Ends Here
By Joy HarjoThe world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table...
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Family Reunion
By Maxine KuminThe week in August you come home,adult, professional, aloof,we roast and carve the fatted calf—in our case home-grown pig, the..
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A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert HerrickLord, Thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell,A little house, whose humble roof Is weather-proof:Under the spars..
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Thanksgiving
By Edgar Albert GuestGettin’ together to smile an’ rejoice,An’ eatin’ an’ laughin’ with folks of your choice;An’ kissin’ the girls an’ declarin’..
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Praise Song for the Day
By Elizabeth AlexanderA Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential InaugurationEach day we go about our business,walking past each other, catching each..
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