All afternoon
the tree shadows, accelerating,
lengthened
till
sunset
shot them black into infinity:
next morning
darkness
returned from the other
infinity and the
shadows caught ground
and through the morning, slowing,
hardened into noon.
A few random poems:
- Who’s Who by W H Auden
- On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer by William Cowper
- Girl’s Song by William Butler Yeats
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad
- Sonnet LXX by William Shakespeare
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- Moon poems by Raj Arumugam
- Colored Toys by Rabindranath Tagore
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Epigram—Commissary Goldie’s Brains by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: A Tippling Ballad: On the Duke of Brunswick’s Breaking up his Camp, and the defeat of the Austrians, by Dumourier, November 1792.
- Children’s Games by William Carlos Williams
- Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Journey with God by Raj Napal
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- A Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Gift poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Gift poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fairy Tale poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fairy Tale poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- 1777 poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- 1777 poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works

Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001) was an important American poet, a modern classic, Ammons wrote about our relationship to nature in a way that is both comic and solemn. His poems often address religious and philosophical matters and scenes involving nature in a manner that is almost transcendental.