The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Poems about austere (31 Poems)
Before Dawn (Amy Lowell Poem)
Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws Are as decrees immutable; O ...
Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Father Gerard Hopkins, S. J. (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Why didst thou carve thy speech laboriously, And match and blend thy words with curious art? For Song, one saith, ...
England, My England (William Ernest Henley Poem)
WHAT have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own? With ...
Those Winter Sundays (Robert Hayden Poem)
Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands ...
The Contretemps (Thomas Hardy Poem)
A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom, And we clasped, and almost kissed; But she was not the ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
The Birds reported from the South — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Birds reported from the South -- A News express to Me -- A spicy Charge, My little Posts -- ...
Snow beneath whose chilly softness (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose this Winter I admonish Thee Blanket Wealthier ...
Expectation — is Contentment — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Expectation -- is Contentment -- Gain -- Satiety -- But Satiety -- Conviction Of Necessity Of an Austere trait in ...
The Vagabonds (Bliss Carman Poem)
We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime ...
Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
To the Bartholdi Statue (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
O Liberty, God-gifted-- Young and immortal maid-- In your high hand uplifted, The torch declares your trade. Its crimson menace, ...
Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn, Blowing clear notes of gold against the stars; Strange entrees with a ...
Elegy for an Enemy (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(For G. H.) Say, does that stupid earth Where they have laid her, Bind still her sullen mirth, Mirth which ...
Dream Song 136: While his wife earned the living, Rabbi Henry (John Berryman Poem)
While his wife earned the living, Rabbi Henry studied the Torah, writing commentaries more likely to be burnt than printed. ...
Dream Song 73: Karensui, Ryoan-ji (John Berryman Poem)
The taxi makes the vegetables fly. 'Dozo kudasai,' I have him wait. Past the bright lake up into the temple, ...
The Bad Monk (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
On the great walls of ancient cloisters were nailed Murals displaying Truth the saint, Whose effect, reheating the pious entrails ...
BEAUTY (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
I AM as lovely as a dream in stone, And this my heart where each finds death in turn, Inspires ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 03: Palimpsest: A Deceitful Portrait (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
Mycerinus (Matthew Arnold Poem)
'Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, Not for the thousands whom my father slew, Altars unfed and temples ...
Rugby Chapel (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
I Think I Should Have Loved You (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
II I THINK I should have loved you presently, And given in earnest words I flung in jest; And lifted ...
The Little Ghost (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I knew her for a little ghost That in my garden walked; The wall is high-higher than most- And the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Ode To Silence (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Aye, but she? Your other sister and my other soul Grave Silence, lovelier Than the three loveliest maidens, what of ...
The Return (Philip Levine Poems)
All afternoon my father drove the country roads between Detroit and Lansing. What he was looking for I never learned, ...