The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Poems about loath (24 Poems)
The Young British Soldier (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
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 ...
Discontents In Devon (Robert Herrick Poem)
More discontents I never had Since I was born, than here; Where I have been, and still am, sad, In ...
a reader’s de profundis (Rg Gregory Poems)
in my reading of the moment i have learned the figure next to christ in da vinci's last supper (a ...
Winfreda (Eugene Field Poem)
(A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE) When to the dreary greenwood gloam Winfreda's husband strode that day, The fair Winfreda ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Elegy II: The Anagram (John Donne Poem)
Marry, and love thy Flavia, for she Hath all things whereby others beautious be, For, though her eyes be small, ...
The Bait (John Donne Poem)
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sand, and crystal ...
Puissant Morons (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Clean your glory glasses, scrub the lenses clean and see the puissant morons stare; garbed in common guises far from ...
A Day Dream (Emily Bronte Poem)
On a sunny brae, alone I lay One summer afternoon; It was the marriage-time of May With her young lover, ...
Meditations Divine and Moral (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, ...
Song For The Last Act (Louise Bogan Poem)
Now that I have your face by heart, I look Less at its features than its darkening frame Where quince ...
Written After Swimming From Sestos To Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
If, in the month of dark December, Leander, who was nightly wont (What maid will not the tale remember?) To ...
The Everlasting Gospel (William Blake Poems)
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
Why He Was There (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Much as he left it when he went from us Here was the room again where he had been So ...
A Mountain Revelry (Li Po Poems)
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows, We drained a hundred jugs of wine. A splendid night ...
The World (Katherine Philips Poems)
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends, That we should grieve for their too early ends: He that surveys ...
Strange Meeting (Wilfred Owen Poems)
It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which ...
Exposure (Wilfred Owen Poems)
I Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us . . . Wearied we keep awake ...
As Slow Our Ship (Thomas Moore Poems)
As slow our ship her foamy track Against the wind was cleaving, Her trembling pennant still look'd back To that ...
Twas One of Those Dreams (Thomas Moore Poems)
'TWAS one of those dreams, that by music are brought, Like a bright summer haze, o'er the poet's warm thought ...
King Arthur’s Tomb (William Morris Poems)
Hot August noon: already on that day Since sunrise through the Wiltshire downs, most sad Of mouth and eye, he ...
Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Oblig'd by frequent visits of this man, Whom as Priest, Poet, and Musician, I for some branch of Melchizedeck took, ...