“Leafless” by Alfred Kreymborg
"Leafless" You are so straight and still What does it mean? Are you concerned in the tops of you now ...
“The Soldiers” by Sherard Vines
"The Soldiers" At first with fruit and flowers and drink They went, libated; festal day When demigods in columns swing ...
“The Kingfisher” by William H. Davies
"The Kingfisher" It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, And left thee all her lovely hues; And, as her mother's ...
“Hermes of the Ways” by H.D.
Hermes of the Ways I The hard sand breaks, And the grains of it Are clear as wine. Far off ...
“The Fight” by Robert Alden Sanborn
"The Fight" Smoke—more smoke—thickening the air, staining the air blue-grey, rising on waves of breath, and falling, and filling the ...
“Fleecing Time” by Edith Sitwell
"Fleecing Time" Queen Venus, like a bunch of roses, Fat and pink that splashed dew closes, Underneath dark mulberry trees, ...
“Milk for the Cat” by Harold Monro
"Milk for the Cat" When the tea is brought at five o'clock, And all the neat curtains are drawn with ...
“Church Parade” by Osbert Sitwell
"Church Parade" The flattened sea is harsh and blue— Lies stiff beneath—one tone, one hue, While concertina waves unfold The ...
“Soldiers” by F.S. Flint
"Soldiers" To R.A. Brother, I saw you on a muddy road in France pass by with your battalion, rifle at ...
“Childhood Memories” by William Saphier
"Childhood Memories" Those years are foliage of trees, their trunks hidden by bushes' behind them a grey haze topped with ...
“The Ambush” by William Kean Seymour
"The Ambush" Wild one, wild one, fleeing through the woods, Your skin is rent with thorns, dark fear is in ...
“Beauty and Beauty” by Rupert Brooke
"Beauty and Beauty" When Beauty and Beauty meet All naked, fair to fair, The earth is crying-sweet, And scattering-bright the ...
“Vicarious Atonement” by Richard Aldington
"Vicarious Atonement" This is an old and very cruel god . . . We will endure; We will try not ...
“Crowds” by Evelyn Scott
"Crowds" The sky along the street a gauzy yellow— The narrow lights burn tall in the twilight. The cool air ...
“Stopping Place” by Edith Sitwell
"Stopping Place" In highly-varnished noisy heat As through a lens that does not fit— The faces jolt in cubes and ...
“A House” by J.C. Squire
"A House" Now very quietly, and rather mournfully, In clouds of hyacinth the sun retires, And all the stubble-fields that were ...
“Venus Transiens” by Amy Lowell
"Venus Transiens" Tell me, Was Venus more beautiful Than you are, When she topped The crinkled waves, Drifting shoreward On ...
“Six Significant Landscapes” by Wallace Stevens
"Six Significant Landscapes" I. An old man sits In the shadow of a pine tree In China. He sees a ...
