Poems begining by P
/ page 39 of 110 /Parable Of The Four-Poster
© Erica Jong
Because she wants to touch him,
she moves away.
Because she wants to talk to him,
she keeps silent.
Polytheist
© Lesbia Harford
One comes to love the little saints,
As years go by.
One learns to love the little saints.
"O hear me sigh,
Puedo Escribir
© Pablo Neruda
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.Escribir, por ejemplo: 'La noche está estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos.'El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso.En las noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos.
La besé tantas veces bajo el cielo infinito.Ella me quiso, a veces yo también la quería.
Piccolo Valzer Viennese
© Benjamin Jonson
A Vienna ci sono dieci ragazze,
una spalla dove piange la morte
e un bosco di colombe disseccate.
C'e' un frammento del mattino
nel museo della brina.
C'è un salone con mille vetrate.
Psalm III.
© John Milton
When He Fled From Absalom.
Lord how many are my foes
How many those
That in arms against me rise
Polish Flowers
© Julian Tuwim
A box with paints from childhood's time:
The colors of town are earth and grime.
An old worker at a dark doorway squats,
The spuds in his bowl are powdery dry.
It's a face of yellowish and gray spots
In the midst of hunger, cold, dirt and slime.
Poppy And Mandragora
© Madison Julius Cawein
Let us go far from here!
Here there is sadness in the early year:
Prop: 2, L: 11 E: Quicunque &c
© Thomas Parnell
Vast was his soul some favorite above
Whose bolder pencil made a boy of love
Progress of Advice
© William Shenstone
Says Richard to Thomas (and seem'd half afraid)
"I'm thinking to marry thy mistress's maid;
Now, because Mrs. Lucy to thee is well known,
I will do't if thou bidst me, or let it alone.
Prologue To 'Zobeide'
© Oliver Goldsmith
IN these bold times, when Learning's sons explore
The distant climate and the savage shore;
Past and Future
© Sarojini Naidu
The new hath come and now the old retires:
And so the past becomes a mountain-cell,
Where lone, apart, old hermit-memories dwell
In consecrated calm, forgotten yet
Of the keen heart that hastens to forget
Old longings in fulfilling new desires.
Poetics
© Archie Randolph Ammons
I look for the way
things will turn
out spiralling from a center,
the shape
things will take to come forth in
Písne Kosmické (#16)
© Jan Neruda
Mesicek ze vsech sam a sam
okolo nas se toci,
sprovazi Zemi zivotem
a nespousti ji z oci.
Poverty
© Paul Hamilton Hayne
A ruthless hag, the image of woeful dearth
Or brute despair, gnawing its own starved heart.
Thou ravening wretch! fierce-eyed and monster-lipped,
Why scourge forevermore God's beauteous earth?
Progress-
© Dora Sigerson Shorter
"Lo! I am athirst," said the brown earth,
"And I would drink my fill."
Pigtail
© Tadeusz Ròzewicz
When all the women in the transport
had their heads shaved
four workmen with brooms made of birch twigs
swept up
and gathered up the hair