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After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost
My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there’s a barrel tha..
Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain --and back in rain.
I have ou..
Always Marry An April Girl by Ogden Nash
Praise the spells and bless the charms,
I found April in my arms.
April golden, April cloudy,
Gra..
Adventures Of Isabel by Ogden Nash
Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn’t care;
The bear was hungry, the bear was raveno..
A Word to Husbands by Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
When..
A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor by Ogden Nash
The hands of the clock were reaching high
In an old midtown hotel;
I name no name, but its sordid..
A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty by Ogden Nash
Unwillingly Miranda wakes,
Feels the sun with terror,
One unwilling step she takes,
Shuddering..
A Drink With Something In It by Ogden Nash
There is something about a Martini,
A tingle remarkably pleasant;
A yellow, a mellow Martini;
I w..
A Caution To Everybody by Ogden Nash
Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man..
A Letter from Home by Mary Oliver
She sends me news of blue jays, frost,
Of stars and now the harvest moon
That rides above the str..
A Dream of Trees by Mary Oliver
There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,
A quiet house, some green and modest acres
A little..
Aunt Leaf by Mary Oliver
Needing one, I invented her -
the great-great-aunt dark as hickory
called Shining-Leaf, or Driftin..
A Visitor by Mary Oliver
My father, for example,
who was young once
and blue-eyed,
returns
on the darkest of nights
to..
August by Mary Oliver
When the blackberries hang
swollen in the woods, in the brambles
nobody owns, I spend
all day a..
After Arguing Against The Contention That Art Must Come From Discontent by Mary Oliver
Whispering to each handhold, "I’ll be back,"
I go up the cliff in the dark. One place
I loosen a r..
An Afternoon In The Stacks by Mary Oliver
Closing the book, I find I have left my head
inside. It is dark in here, but the chapters open
the..
At Great Pond by Mary Oliver
At Great Pond
the sun, rising,
scrapes his orange breast
on the thick pines,
and down tumble
a..
At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver
At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a night of rain.
I dip my cupped hands...
A Meeting by Mary Oliver
She steps into the dark swamp
where the long wait ends.
The secret slippery package
drops to th..
A Poet's Voice XV by Khalil Gibran
Part One
The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles..
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