The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town ofBrighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.Slow in ...
Poems about flatters (21 Poems)
The Kalevala – Rune XXXV (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
KULLERVO'S EVIL DEEDS.Kullerwionen, youthful wizard,In his blue and scarlet stockings,Henceforth lingered with his parents;But he could not change his nature,Could ...
Chomei At Toyama (Basil Bunting Poems)
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
London By Lamplight (George Meredith Poems)
There stands a singer in the street, He has an audience motley and meet; Above him lowers the London night, ...
Upon His Majesty’s Happy Return (Edmund Waller Poems)
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such ...
Rose and Murray (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
After the movie, when the lights come up, He takes her powdered hand behind the wings; She, all in yellow, ...
Farewell to London (Alexander Pope Poems)
Dear, damn'd distracting town, farewell!Thy fools no more I'll tease:This year in peace, ye critics, dwell,Ye harlots, sleep at ease!Soft ...
On Silence (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
WITHDRAWN from busy man, the mind regainsIts wonted strength when solemn stillness reigns;For silence proves a shelter for the mind,When ...
Three Songs (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
LOVE, thou art best of Human Joys, Our chiefest Happiness below;All other Pleasures are but Toys,Musick without Thee is but ...
The Cow (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
THIS is a rune I ravelled in the still, Arrogant stare of an Australian cow- 'These prankt intruders of the ...
The Nurse-Life Wheat (Fulke Greville Poems)
THE nurse-life wheat, within his green husk growing, Flatters our hope and tickles our desire, Nature's true riches in sweet ...
The Dark and the Fair (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
A roaring company that festive night; The beast of dialectic dragged his chains, Prowling from chair to chair is the ...
DISTICHS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
CHORDS are touch'd by Apollo,--the death-laden bow, too, he bendeth; While he the shepherdess charms, Python he lays in the ...
Three Songs (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
LOVE, thou art best of Human Joys, Our chiefest Happiness below; All other Pleasures are but Toys, Musick without Thee ...
Turns And Movies: Rose And Murray (Conrad Aiken Poem)
After the movie, when the lights come up, He takes her powdered hand behind the wings; She, all in yellow, ...
The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
Venus and Adonis (William Shakespeare Poems)
Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, ...
Cassandra (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I heard one who said: "Verily, What word have I for children here? Your Dollar is your only Word, The ...
Stanzas to a Friend (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
AH! think no more that Life's delusive joys, Can charm my thoughts from FRIENDSHIP'S dearer claim; Or wound a heart, ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...