Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 12th
Random Poem of the Day
1While we loved those who never read our poems,
2Answered our letters, said the simple things we
3Waited so long for, and were too polite to
4 See we were crying,
5Irony fed us: for the days we watched our
6Chances to please them, nights in rumpled beds lay
7Gored by their phantoms, guilty most of suffering,
8 We were rewarded.
9While we admired how ignorance became them,
10Coldness adorned, they came at length to trust us,
11Made us their mirrors: last their hopeless loves to
12 Us they confided.
13They were our teachers: what we are, they made us.
14Cautious our converse, prudent our behaviour,
15Guarded our faces: we behind them lurking,
16 Greedy, devourers.