The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Poems about midsummer (24 Poems)
Essential Beauty (Philip Larkin Poem)
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen ...
The Old Fools (Philip Larkin Poem)
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
The Bush Girl (Henry Lawson Poem)
So you rode from the range where your brothers "select," Through the ghostly grey bush in the dawn--- You rode ...
Keats (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
The young Endymion sleeps Endymion's sleep; The shepherd-boy whose tale was left half told! The solemn grove uplifts its shield ...
A Tree Song (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(A. D. 1200) Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: January (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn Dismayed, and think ...
Moonrise (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning: The moon, ...
Affirmation (Donald Hall Poem)
To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, ...
September (Ted Hughes Poem)
We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold: No clock counts this. When kisses are repeated and the arms hold ...
Widows (Louise Gluck Poem)
My mother's playing cards with my aunt, Spite and Malice, the family pastime, the game my grandmother taught all her ...
Lincoln (John Gould Fletcher Poem)
I Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of ...
Poet As Fisherman (James A. Emanuel Poem)
I fish for words to say what I fish for, half-catch sometimes. I have caught little pan fish flashing sunlight ...
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 ...
Alphonso Of Castile (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I Alphonso live and learn, Seeing nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind, Lemons run to leaves and rind, Meagre ...
Yvonne Of Brittany (Ernest Dowson Poem)
In your mother's apple-orchard, Just a year ago, last spring: Do you remember, Yvonne! The dear trees lavishing Rain of ...
Midsummer, was it, when They died — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Midsummer, was it, when They died -- A full, and perfect time -- The Summer closed upon itself In Consummated ...
I think to Live — may be a Bliss (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I think to Live -- may be a Bliss To those who dare to try -- Beyond my limit to ...
Freedom of Love (Andre Breton Poem)
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Fra Lippo Lippi (Robert Browning Poem)
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
Thyrsis, a Monody (Matthew Arnold Poem)
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
Journey Into The Interior (Theodore Roethke Poems)
In the long journey out of the self, There are many detours, washed-out interrupted raw places Where the shale slides ...
Jonathan Houghton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
There is the caw of a crow, And the hesitant song of a thrush. There is the tinkle of a ...