Year’s End By Richard Wilbur - Giggle Poems
Now winter downs the dying of the year, And night is all a settlement of snow; From the soft street the rooms of houses show A gathered light, a shape ...
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Ghana Calls By W. E. B. Du Bois - Giggle Poems
I liked my playmates, and knew well, Whence all their parents came; From England, Scotland, royal France From Germany and oft by chance The humble Eme ...
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Immortal Autumn By Archibald MacLeish - Giggle Poems
I speak this poem now with grave and level voice In praise of autumn, of the far-horn-winding fall.
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Lines for a Prologue By Archibald MacLeish - Giggle Poems
(Tell me your dreams, O sailors: Tell me, in sleep did you climb The tall masts, and before you—) At night the stillness of old trees Is a leaning ove ...
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Patterns By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
I walk down the garden paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden paths In my stiff, broc ...
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The Blue Scarf By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
The west wind has lifted a scarf On the seat close beside me; the blue of it is a violent outrage of colour. Her kisses are sharp buds of fire; and I ...
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High Noon at Los Alamos By Eleanor Wilner - Giggle Poems
To turn a stone with its white squirming underneath, to pry the disc from the sun’s eclipse—white heat coiling in the blinded eye: to these malign??? ...
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Watch Repair By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Higher than that Number 12 presides Like a beekeeper Over the swarming honeycomb Of the open watch.
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The Children By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
The children are hiding among the raspberry canes. We lie in bed at night, thinking about The future, always the future, always forgetting That it wil ...
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A Pumpkin at New Year’s By Sandra McPherson - Giggle Poems
It was time too to leave you uncut and full-featured, Like the grandpa of twenty-five pumpkins in my past, Khrushchev-cheeked and dwelling on yourself ...
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For No Clear Reason By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
I dreamt last night the fright was over, that the dust came, and then water,??? and women and men, together??? again, and all was quiet in the dim moo ...
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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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Walking West By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
Anyone with quiet pace who walks a gray road in the West may hear a badger underground where??? in deep flint another time is Caught by flint and hel ...
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Meta-A and the A of Absolutes By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
Blind men, on bourbon, with guitars, blind men with their scars dulled by kola, blind men seeking the shelter of a raindrop, blind men in corn, blind ...
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Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
These others stand with you, squinting the city into place, yet cannot see what you see, what you would see —a vision of these paths, laid out like a ...
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To My Wife By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
And does the heart grow old? You know In the indiscriminate green Of summer or in earliest snow A landscape is another scene, Inchoate and anonymous, ...
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The Brief Journey West By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
The father’s skin is seamed and dry, the map Of that wild region where they drained the swamp And set provision out that they might sit, Of history th ...
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The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
The man splitting wood in the daybreak looks strong, as though, if one weakened, one could turn to him and he would help. When he split wood he struck ...
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The Seekonk Woods By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
I thought my stride one day would reach every other and from then on I would walk in time with the way toward that Lobachevskian haze up ahead where t ...
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The Ballad of the Children of the Czar By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
1 The children of the Czar Played with a bouncing ball In the May morning, in the Czar’s garden, Tossing it back and forth. Like Papa’s face, said Sis ...
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The Giant Slide By Ted Kooser - Giggle Poems
Those screams have all gone east on a wind that will never stop blowing down from the Rockies and over the plains, where things catch on for a little ...
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A Room in the Past By Ted Kooser - Giggle Poems
A kitchen falling through time with its things in their places, the dishes jingling up in the cupboard, the bucket of drinking water rippled as if a t ...
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In the Basement of the Goodwill Store By Ted Kooser - Giggle Poems
In musty light, in the thin brown air of damp carpet, doll heads and rust, beneath long rows of sharp footfalls like nails in a lid, an old man stands ...
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Memory As a Hearing Aid By Tony Hoagland - Giggle Poems
I’m here to tell you that they were, and many of us did, despite ourselves, though the road from there to here is paved with dead brain cells, parents ...
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