Poems of Today

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your...

A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls...

Richard Armour (1906-1989) Shake and shake The catsup bottle. None'll come— And then a lot'll.

John Ashbery (2007) Something was about to go laughably wrong, whether directly at home or here, on this random shoal pleading with its eye...

Ogden Nash Celery, raw Develops the jaw, But celery, stewed, Is more quietly chewed.

Yehuda Amichai (2004) translated from Hebrew by Leon Wieseltier We are buried with everything we did, with our tears and our laughs. We have...

Arthur Rimbaud (1872) What’s it to us, my heart, the folds of blood And the coals, and a thousand murders, and long wailings Of rage, cries ...