The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
Poems about absent (38 Poems)
The Ear-Maker And The Mould-Mender (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
An Imitation Of Anacreon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
PAINTER in Paphos and Cythera famed Depict, I pray, the absent Iris' face. Thou hast not seen the lovely nymph ...
The Spleen (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take ...
Waiting (Robert Frost Poem)
Afield at dusk What things for dream there are when specter-like, Moving amond tall haycocks lightly piled, I enter alone ...
God Needs Antonio (George Eliot Poem)
Your soul was lifted by the wings today Hearing the master of the violin: You praised him, praised the great ...
Sonnet XI: You Not Alone (Michael Drayton Poem)
You not alone, when you are still alone, O God, from you that I could private be. Since you one ...
Song From Amphitryon (John Dryden Poem)
Air Iris I love, and hourly I die, But not for a lip, nor a languishing eye: She's fickle and ...
Heroic Stanzas (John Dryden Poem)
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
Elegy II: The Anagram (John Donne Poem)
Marry, and love thy Flavia, for she Hath all things whereby others beautious be, For, though her eyes be small, ...
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress (John Donne Poem)
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
Two Travellers perishing in Snow (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words That ...
The Face we choose to miss — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Face we choose to miss -- Be it but for a Day As absent as a Hundred Years, When ...
Just as He spoke it from his Hands (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Just as He spoke it from his Hands This Edifice remain -- A Turret more, a Turret less Dishonor his ...
Absent Place — an April Day — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Absent Place -- an April Day -- Daffodils a-blow Homesick curiosity To the Souls that snow -- Drift may block ...
To die — takes just a little while (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To die -- takes just a little while -- They say it doesn't hurt -- It's only fainter -- by ...
From The Ladies Defence (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
Wishes To His (Supposed) Mistress (Richard Crashaw Poem)
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
Longing to be with Christ (William Cowper Poem)
To Jesus, the crown of my hope, My soul is in haste to be gone; O bear me, ye cherubim, ...
The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
The Mirror (Robert Creeley Poem)
Seeing is believing. Whatever was thought or said, these persistent, inexorable deaths make faith as such absent, our humanness a ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Passer-By, These Are Words (Yves Bonnefoy Poem)
Passer-by, these are words. But instead of reading I want you to listen: to this frail Voice like that of ...
Before the Birth of One of Her Children (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
All things within this fading world hath end, Adversity doth still our joys attend; No ties so strong, no friends ...
A Letter to Her Husband (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
Absent upon Public Employment My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more, My joy, my magazine, of earthly ...
To Romance (Lord Byron Poem)
Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious Queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
THE SWAN (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
ANDROMACHE, I think of you! The stream, The poor, sad mirror where in bygone days Shone all the majesty of ...