The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Poems about outright (21 Poems)
Faithless Sally Brown (Thomas Hood Poem)
Young Ben he was a nice young man, A carpenter by trade; And he fell in love with Sally Brown, ...
The Ivy-Wife (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I LONGED to love a full-boughed beech And be as high as he: I stretched an arm within his reach, ...
Pur autre vie “For the life of another.” (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
How often that is true That we live for another Not owning it outright In fee simple absolute for perpetuity ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
The Black Cottage (Robert Frost Poem)
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry ...
Maple (Robert Frost Poem)
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
A Ballad of Hell (John Davidson Poem)
'A letter from my love to-day! Oh, unexpected, dear appeal!' She struck a happy tear away, And broke the crimson ...
The Sea (Lewis Carroll Poem)
There are certain things -a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but ...
A Sea Dirge (Lewis Carroll Poem)
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
The Grandmother (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
I. And Willy, my eldest-born, is gone, you say, little Anne? Ruddy and white, and strong on his legs, he ...
Live (Anne Sexton Poems)
Live or die, but don't poison everything... Well, death's been here for a long time -- it has a hell ...
On The Wire (Robert William Service Poems)
O God, take the sun from the sky! It's burning me, scorching me up. God, can't You hear my cry? ...
Mrs Frances Haris’s Petition (Jonathan Swift Poems)
To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland, The humble petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve and die a ...
The Witch Of Atlas (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Sonnet CXXXIX (William Shakespeare Poems)
O, call not me to justify the wrong That thy unkindness lays upon my heart; Wound me not with thine ...
The Lovers (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
See how in their veins all becomes spirit; into each other they mature and grow. Like axles, their forms tremblingly ...
The Man Against the Sky (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
The Battle of Omdurman (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me And King in praise of the gallant British Armie, That behaved ...
Modern Love XXXVI: My Lady unto Madam (George Meredith Poems)
My Lady unto Madam makes her bow. The charm of women is, that even while You're probed by them for ...