The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket (Robert Lowell Poem)
(For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea) Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of ...
Poems about powerless (30 Poems)
The Fire of Drift-wood (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
DEVEREUX FARM, NEAR MARBLEHEAD. We sat within the farm-house old, Whose windows, looking o'er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze ...
The Son Of The Evening Star (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Meditation On Saviors (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
The Broken Balance (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
The Alchemist in the City (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
My window shews the travelling clouds, Leaves spent, new seasons, alter'd sky, The making and the melting crowds: The whole ...
THE NEW AMOR. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
AMOR, not the child, the youthful lover of Psyche, Look'd round Olympus one day, boldly, to triumph inured; There he ...
It is a time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The Advent seasons the days watching the star waiting for the Christ-child the moment of His birth It is a ...
Gray to Green (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
People, random strangers Cool stores Hot blacktop Eyes turn Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing ...
Day Moon (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Over the tree line Under the blue Powerless ghost Servant of day A leaf pressed under waxed paper Muted and ...
Green Sky (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
People, random strangers Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing Darkening sky Deep grays Strong edges ...
Overnight at the Riverside Tower (Tu Fu Poem)
Evening colors linger on mountain paths. Out beyond this study perched over River Gate, At the cliff's edge, frail clouds ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
The Pains Of Sleep (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or ...
If This Be All (Anne Bronte Poem)
O God! if this indeed be all That Life can show to me; If on my aching brow may fall ...
Remembrance (Emily Bronte Poem)
Cold in the earth-and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Sun of the Sleepless! (Lord Byron Poem)
Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star! Whose tearful beam glows tremulously far, That show'st the darkness thou canst not dispel, ...
Buried Life, The (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
The Buried Life (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
Cartographies of Silence (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1. A conversation begins with a lie. and each speaker of the so-called common language feels the ice-floe split, the ...
An Address to Shakespeare (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Immortal! William Shakespeare, there's none can you excel, You have drawn out your characters remarkably well, Which is delightful for ...
The Ashantee War (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1874, and on New Year's Day, The British Army landed at Elmina without dismay, And ...
The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...
Translation From the Gull Language (Thomas Moore Poems)
'Twas grav'd on the Stone of Destiny, In letters four, and letters three; And ne'er did the King of the ...
Scotland’s Winter (Edwin Muir Poems)
Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill, The sun looks from the hill Helmed in his winter ...
Love, Though for This (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I LOVE, though for this you riddle me with darts, And drag me at your chariot till I die, Oh, ...
Shema (Primo Levi Poems)
You who live secure In your warm houses Who return at evening to find Hot food and friendly faces: Consider ...