TO THE SURVIVORS (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
NOW they sing the hero loud; -- But they sing him in his shroud. Torch he kindled for his land; ...
Poems about appeased (21 Poems)
ERGO BIBAMUS! (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
FOR a praiseworthy object we're now gather'd here, So, brethren, sing: ERGO BIBAMUS! Tho' talk may be hush'd, yet the ...
On the Ruins of a Country Inn (Philip Freneau Poem)
WHERE now these mingled ruins lie A temple once to Bacchus rose, Beneath whose roof, aspiring high, Full many a ...
The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
The Case Of Conscience (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; And ...
Celestial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
Precious to Me — She still shall be — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Precious to Me -- She still shall be -- Though She forget the name I bear -- The fashion of ...
It was a Grave, yet bore no Stone (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It was a Grave, yet bore no Stone Enclosed 'twas not of Rail A Consciousness its Acre, and It held ...
Severer Service of myself (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Severer Service of myself I -- hastened to demand To fill the awful Vacuum Your life had left behind -- ...
The White Peacock (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Hymn 149 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The offices of Christ. From several scriptures. Join all the names of love and power That ever men or angels ...
Greedy Richard (Jane Taylor Poems)
"I think I want some pies this morning," Said Dick, stretching himself and yawning; So down he threw his slate ...
At Fontainebleau (Arthur Symons Poems)
IT was a day of sun and rain, Uncertain as a child's swift moods; And I shall never spend again ...
Babyhood (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
A baby shines as bright If winter or if May be On eyes that keep in sight A baby. Though ...
Beaumont and Fletcher (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
An hour ere sudden sunset fired the west, Arose two stars upon the pale deep east. The hall of heaven ...
The Cranes Of Ibycus (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Once to the song and chariot-fight, Where all the tribes of Greece unite On Corinth's isthmus joyously, The god-loved Ibycus ...
WREATH OF SONNETS (Vlanes Poems)
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...