By Robert Duncan
This is the way it is. We seethree ages in one: the child Jesusinnocent of Jerusalem and Rome- magically...
Explore Poems: Easter
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- By Kiki PetrosinoI’ll conjure the perfect Easter & we’ll plant mini spruces in the yard— my pink gloves & your green ...
- By A. E. HousmanLoveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland...
- By William Butler YeatsI have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century...
- By James LaughlinEven on Easter Sunday when the church was a jungle of lilies and ferns fat Uncle Paul who loved his ...
- By William BlakeLittle Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream...
- By John DonneLet mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is, And as the...
- By Robert PinskyEaster was the old North Goddess of the dawn. She rises daily in the East And yearly in spring for the...
- By D. NurkseThey pay us time and a half and don’t dare catch us drinking: we don’t insist, don’t pass a bottle, ...
- By George HerbertLord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more...
- By George HerbertI threaten'd to observe the strict decree Of my dear God with all my power and might; But I was told...
- By Louis Untermeyer(Vienna) I Shut out the light or let it filter through These frowning aisles as penitentially As though...
- By Edgar BowersHer unawed face, whose pose so long assumed Is touched with what reality we feel, Bends to itself and...
- By Thomas MertonThe men that cut their graves in the grey rocks Go down more slowly than the sun upon their dusty country...