Happiness (Amy Lowell Poem)
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. Days of passive somnolence, At its wildest, indolence. Hours of empty ...
Poems about livelier (21 Poems)
The Discontent. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
I. HEre take no Care, take here no Care, my Muse, Nor ought of Art or Labour use: But let ...
The Forerunners (George Herbert Poem)
The harbingers are come. See, see their mark; White is their colour, and behold my head. But must they have ...
Terence, This is Stupid Stuff (A. E. Housman Poem)
'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
The Living Temple (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
NOT in the world of light alone, Where God has built his blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, ...
WHEN THE FOX DIES, HIS SKIN COUNTS.* (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
(* The name of a game, known in English as "Jack's alight.") WE young people in the shade Sat one ...
In the Home Stretch (Robert Frost Poem)
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
Fears In Solitude (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
To Thos. Floyd (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
How fares it, friend, since I by Fate annoy'd Left the old home in need of livelier play For body ...
In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams (Wendell Berry Poem)
I. The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves, one of the necessities, so ...
Locksley Hall (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
The Princess (part 1) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face, Of temper amorous, as the first of May, With lengths of ...
The Talking Oak (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Once more the gate behind me falls; Once more before my face I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, That stand within ...
Sleep (Sir Philip Sidney Poems)
Come Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's ...
Come Sleep, O Sleep! The Certain Knot Of Peace (Sir Philip Sidney Poems)
Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's ...
Sonnet XXXIX: Come, Sleep! (Sir Philip Sidney Poems)
Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's ...
Astrophel and Stella: XXXIX (Sir Philip Sidney Poems)
Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's ...
Sculptor (Sylvia Plath Poems)
For Leonard Baskin To his house the bodiless Come to barter endlessly Vision, wisdom, for bodies Palpable as his, and ...
There Are Sounds of Mirth (Thomas Moore Poems)
There are sounds of mirth in the night-air ringing, And lamps from every casement shown; While voices blithe within are ...
They May Rail at this Life (Thomas Moore Poems)
They may rail at this life -- from the hour I began it I found it a life full of ...
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 ...