Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with...
Category: Poetry
Stay Home
I will wait here in the fields to see how well the rain brings on the grass. In the labor of the...
Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d...
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far...
The Mower
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It...
Dust of Snow
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change...
I, Too
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company...
I Sing The Body Electric
1 I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will...
On Balance
Tribute It takes ten thousand hours to shine at anything. And if we haven’t spent night after...
In A Station Of The Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. And now you could...
Red Brocade
The Arabs used to say, When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking...
Slough
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now, There isn’t grass...
