The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
Poems about perfumes (31 Poems)
A Pastoral Dialogue. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
Dorinda. SAbæan Perfumes fragrant Roses bring, With all the Flowers that Paint the gaudy Spring: Scatter them all in young ...
Unto one who lies at rest (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Unto one who lies at rest 'Neath the sunset, in the West, Clover-blossoms on her breast. Lover of each gracious ...
The Dover Bitch: A Criticism Of Life (Anthony Hecht Poem)
So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them, And he said ...
ON A PERFUMED LADY (Robert Herrick Poem)
You say you're sweet: how should we know Whether that you be sweet or no? --From powders and perfumes keep ...
THE WIDOWS’ TEARS; OR, DIRGE OF DORCAS (Robert Herrick Poems)
Come pity us, all ye who see Our harps hung on the willow-tree; Come pity us, ye passers-by, Who see ...
A PANEGYRIC TO SIR LEWIS PEMBERTON (Robert Herrick Poem)
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
THE FUNERAL RITES OF THE ROSE (Robert Herrick Poem)
The Rose was sick, and smiling died; And, being to be sanctified, About the bed, there sighing stood The sweet ...
St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
The Petition for an Absolute Retreat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
The Voice of Robert Desnos (Robert Desnos Poem)
So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight ...
Sleep Spaces (Robert Desnos Poem)
In the night there are of course the seven wonders of the world and the greatness tragedy and enchantment. Forests ...
Elegy IV: The Perfume (John Donne Poem)
Once, and but once found in thy company, All thy supposed escapes are laid on me; And as a thief ...
Ithaka (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, ...
In the Holy Nativity of our Lord (Richard Crashaw Poem)
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The Sirens’ Song (William Browne Poems)
STEER, hither steer your winged pines, All beaten mariners! Here lie Love's undiscover'd mines, A prey to passengers-- Perfumes far ...
The Wood (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
Waikiki (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes Somewhere an `eukaleli' ...
BALCONY (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
MOTHER of memories, mistress of mistresses, O thou, my pleasure, thou, all my desire, Thou shalt recall the beauty of ...
THE DANCE OF DEATH (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
CARRYING bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves, Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves With all the careless ...
I Love The Naked Ages Long Ago (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
I love the naked ages long ago When statues were gilded by Apollo, When men and women of agility Could ...
Correspondences (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
Nature is a temple where the living pillars Let go sometimes a blurred speech- A Forest of symbols passes through ...
Love Of Jerusalem (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
There is a street where they sell only red meat And there is a street where they sell only clothes ...
My Mistress’ Eyes (William Shakespeare Poem)
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun Coral is far more red than her lips’ red, If snow be ...
Wisteria (Philip Levine Poems)
The first purple wisteria I recall from boyhood hung on a wire outside the windows of the breakfast room next ...
Chopin (Emma Lazarus Poems)
I A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof Of the entangling waltz. Bright ...
Corn (Sidney Lanier Poems)
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...