True Beauty
True beauty is in the way she laughs True beauty is in her eyes True beauty is how she acts True beauty is inside True beauty is unseen True beauty… Read more »
Category Archives: Beauty Poems
Beauty Supply
Sheaves of wheat in cement relief Supply the beauties of Archer Ave. Past the scaffolded brick church spire We turn on the vacant corner lot Through winds worthy of Hopkins… Read more »
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
Know Celia, since thou art so proud, ‘Twas I that gave thee thy renown; Thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd Of common beauties, liv’d unknown, Had not my verse exhal’d… Read more »
The Rhodora
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish… Read more »
Youth And Beauty
I bought a dishmop– having no daughter– for they had twisted fine ribbons of shining copper about white twine and made a tousled head of it, fastened it upon a… Read more »
Cradle Song
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace,… Read more »
Beauty And Beauty
When Beauty and Beauty meet All naked, fair to fair, The earth is crying-sweet, And scattering-bright the air, Eddying, dizzying, closing round, With soft and drunken laughter; Veiling all that… Read more »
The Part Of The Bee’s Body Embedded In The Flesh
The bee-boy, merops apiater, on sultry thundery days filled his bosom between his coarse shirt and his skin with bees–his every meal wild honey. He had no apprehension of their… Read more »
The Beauty Of The Heart
The beauty of the heart is the lasting beauty: its lips give to drink of the water of life. Truly it is the water, that which pours, and the one… Read more »
Song. Murdering Beauty
I’LL gaze no more on her bewitching face, Since ruin harbours there in every place ; For my enchanted soul alike she drowns With calms and tempests of her smiles… Read more »