Looking into History By Richard Wilbur - Giggle Poems
I try Like orphaned Hamlet working up his grief To see my spellbound fathers in these men Who, breathless in their amber atmosphere, Show but the post ...
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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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Lilacs By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
Lilacs, False blue, White, Purple, Color of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England. Lilacs, False blue, White, Purpl ...
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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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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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October Arriving By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Nevertheless, unable to decide He retraces his steps Several times and finds himself On a huge blank wall That has no window.
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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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Things By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
And straightway I was released And sprang through an open gate.” I said, “Into a meadow?” He said, “I am impervious to irony. They say, you are merely ...
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from The Laurel Tree By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
And at night, quivering with tears, You are like the tree called Tasso’s. When the lovers prop their bicycles And sit on the high benches That look ac ...
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Toward an Organic Philosophy By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
I get up and walk off in the moonlight and each time I look back the red is deeper and the light smaller. Scorpio rises late with Mars caught in his c ...
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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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In the Tree House at Night By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
The needles and pine cones about me Are full of small birds at their roundest, Their fists without mercy gripping Hard down through the tree to the ro ...
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The View from an Attic Window By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
Up in the attic, among many things Inherited and out of style, I cried, then fell asleep awhile, Waking at night now, as the snow- flakes from darknes ...
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Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
2 The whistles of a peabody bird go overhead Like a needle pushed five times through the air, They enter the leaves, and come out little changed. But ...
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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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Saint Francis and the Sow By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;??? though sometimes it ...
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Horses on the Grass By Grace Schulman - Giggle Poems
From the tower window the moon draws a silver maple’s shadow across a spangled lawn; horses rear, manes lashing the air, front legs floating.
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The China Painters By Ted Kooser - Giggle Poems
They have set aside their black tin boxes,??? scratched and dented, spattered with drops of pink and blue;??? and their dried-up, rolled-up tubes??? o ...
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More Than Enough By Marge Piercy - Giggle Poems
All over the sand road where we walk multiflora rose climbs trees cascading white or pink blossoms, simple, intense the scene drifting like colored mi ...
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Moonflowers By Karma Larsen - Giggle Poems
Huge, platterlike white flowers shining in the night to soften their plaintive howling. Gaudy and awkward by day, by night they were huge, soft, lumin ...
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