Bath By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
The sunshine pours in at the bath-room window and bores through the water in the bath-tub in lathes and planes of greenish-white. Little spots of suns ...
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Thompson’s Lunch Room—Grand Central Station By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
The big room is coloured like the petals Of a great magnolia, And has a patina Of flower bloom Which makes it shine dimly Under the electric lamps. Th ...
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In a Garden By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
Gushing from the mouths of stone men To spread at ease under the sky In granite-lipped basins, Where iris dabble their feet And rustle to a passing wi ...
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The Pond By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
Cold, wet leaves Floating on moss-coloured water??? And the croaking of frogs— Cracked bell-notes in the twilight. ?
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Nuit Blanche By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
Ghostly and vaporous her gown sweeps by The twilight dusking wall, I hear her feet Delaying on the gravel, and a sigh, Briefly permitted, touches the ...
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I Am Waiting By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
I am waiting for my case to come up??? and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail and I ...
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Reichsmarschall Hermann G?ring (1 April 1945) By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
And why, Herr Reichsmarschall, is Italy Just like schnitzel? Pray, could an old, soft football be Much like a man in deep disgrace? Tell us, dear Mini ...
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Dr. Joseph Goebbels (22 April 1945) By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
Stand back, make way, you mindless scum, Squire Voland the Seducer’s come— Old Bock from Babelsberg whose tower Falls silent now, whose shrunken power ...
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Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945) By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
This is the Doctor who has brought Your needle with your special shot To quiet you; you won’t get caught Off guard or unprepared. Take this on your to ...
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A Locked House By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
From the farm Next door, our neighbors saw no harm Came to the things we cared for here. Maybe I should have thought: all Such things rot, fall— Barns ...
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Mementos, 1 By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
I stopped there cold, Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his yard Who has turned up a severed hand. Then through the war and those two long yea ...
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Heart’s Needle By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
1 Child of my winter, born When the new fallen soldiers froze In Asia’s steep ravines and fouled the snows, When I was torn By love I could not still, ...
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The Campus on the Hill By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
Up the reputable walks of old established trees They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches; chimes Of the tall Clock Tower drench their heads in bles ...
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Monet: “Les Nymphéas” By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
O world half-known through opening, twilit lids Before the vague face clenches into light; O universal waters like a cloud, Like those first clouds of ...
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April Inventory By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
In one whole year I haven’t learned A blessed thing they pay you for. The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradual ...
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“After Experience Taught Me ...” By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
After experience taught me that all the ordinary Surroundings of social life are futile and vain; I’m going to show you something very Ugly: someday, ...
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New Netherland, 1654 By Grace Schulman - Giggle Poems
We raised a prayer house— that is, we broke new wood for one, but some tough burned it, snarling: “Carve only stones for the dead.” Damp ground, no fi ...
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Narcissus By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is a capital Like Rome, ruined and eternal, Marked by ...
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The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
The heavy bear who goes with me,??? A manifold honey to smear his face,??? Clumsy and lumbering here and there,??? The central ton of every place,??? ...
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Eternity Blues By Hayden Carruth - Giggle Poems
I just had the old Dodge in the shop with that same damned front-end problem, and I was out, so to speak, for a test run, loafing along, maybe 35 m.p. ...
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The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
At night, alone, I marry the bed. At night, alone, I marry the bed. Take for instance this night, my love, that every single couple puts together with ...
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In Celebration of My Uterus By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
You are singing like a school girl. Sweet weight, in celebration of the woman I am and of the soul of the woman I am and of the central creature and i ...
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Menstruation at Forty By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
This time I hunt for death, the night I lean toward, the night I want. All this without you— two days gone in blood. My death from the wrists, two nam ...
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Crossing the Atlantic By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
Wrapped in robes— not like Caesar but like liver with bacon— I rest on the stern burning my mouth with a wind-hot ash, watching my ship bypass the swe ...
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