The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
Poems about necessity (21 Poems)
The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
It would have starved a Gnat — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It would have starved a Gnat -- To live so small as I -- And yet I was a living ...
I think the Hemlock likes to stand (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I think the Hemlock likes to stand Upon a Marge of Snow -- It suits his own Austerity -- And ...
For this — accepted Breath (Emily Dickinson Poem)
For this -- accepted Breath -- Through it -- compete with Death -- The fellow cannot touch this Crown -- ...
Fame of Myself, to justify, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous -- An Incense Beyond Necessity -- Fame of Myself to ...
They might not need me — yet they might — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
They might not need me -- yet they might -- I'll let my Heart be just in sight -- A ...
Logos (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own! Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge Constant my heart ...
Logos (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own! Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge Constant my heart ...
193. On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit (Robert Burns Poem)
WHY, ye tenants of the lake, For me your wat'ry haunt forsake? Tell me, fellow-creatures, why At my presence thus ...
Easter Morning (A. R. Ammons Poem)
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
295. Epistle to Dr. Blacklock (Robert Burns Poems)
ELLISLAND, 21st Oct., 1789.WOW, but your letter made me vauntie! And are ye hale, and weel and cantie? I ken'd ...
Integrity (Adrienne Rich Poems)
the quality of being complete; unbroken condition; entirety ~ Webster A wild patience has taken me this far as if ...
Edge (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The woman is perfected Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Wish (W. S. Merwin Poems)
The star in my Hand is falling All the uniforms know what's no use May I bow to Necessity not ...
Lake (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Maidenly lake, fathomless lake, Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes, Idling with a reflected cloud, for my sake ...
Tortoise Gallantry (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Making his advances He does not look at her, nor sniff at her, No, not even sniff at her, his ...