At Grass (Philip Larkin Poem)
The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and main; ...
Poems about columns (31 Poems)
The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
The Cathedral of Rheims (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(From the French of Emile Verhaeren) He who walks through the meadows of Champagne At noon in Fall, when leaves ...
Wilful Missing (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Deserters) There is a world outside the one you know, To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare-- It is the ...
Two Kopjes (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Made Yeomanry towards End of Boer War) Only two African kopjes, Only the cart-tracks that wind Empty and open between ...
Columns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Mobile Columns of the Boer War) Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry (Time, an' 'igh time to be trekkin' ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
The Woman At The Washington Zoo (Randall Jarrell Poem)
The saris go by me from the embassies. Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. They look back at ...
Leipzig (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
The Bridge of Lodi. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain "The Bridge of Lodi" Brought ...
God’s Funeral (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I I saw a slowly-stepping train -- Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar -- Following in files ...
A Dedication (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, ...
MIGNON. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
----- Poet's art is ever able To endow with truth mere fable. ---- MIGNON. [This universally known poem is also ...
The White Lilies (Louise Gluck Poem)
As a man and woman make a garden between them like a bed of stars, here they linger in the ...
Meticulous (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Meticulous was the word That came to mom and me Simultaneously to describe Dad and how he approached almost Everything ...
The Ancient World (Mark Doty Poem)
Today the Masons are auctioning their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, gemmed and ostrich-plumed, and operetta costumes labeled inside ...
Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
To The Pious Memory Of The Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew (John Dryden Poem)
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
Ode (John Dryden Poem)
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
The Ancestral Dwelling (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal ...
I saw no Way — The Heavens were stitched (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I saw no Way -- The Heavens were stitched -- I felt the Columns close -- The Earth reversed her ...
“Red Sea,” indeed! Talk not to me (Emily Dickinson Poem)
"Red Sea," indeed! Talk not to me Of purple Pharaoh -- I have a Navy in the West Would pierce ...
Directions (Billy Collins Poem)
You know the brick path in the back of the house, the one you see from the kitchen window, the ...
A Forest Hymn (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
Clouds (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow, Now tread the far ...
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 ...
The Prisoner of Chillon (Lord Byron Poem)
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
The Dream (Lord Byron Poem)
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed’s Church (Robert Browning Poems)
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, ...