The Wit And The Beau (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Strephon, whose Person ev'ry Grace Was careful to adorn; Thought, by the Beauties of his Face, In Silvia's Love ...
Poems about pretends (21 Poems)
The One O’Clock Gun (Douglas J Fraser Poems)
What gars the Embro' man feel prood?When a' is said ad duneIt's no St Giles or Holyroodbut thon big, noisy ...
At A Hotel (Abba Kovner Poems)
Mother and Father begin to die within me. Thirty years after their stormy death they steal away quietly from my ...
WITH A WATER-LILY (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
SEE, dear, what thy lover brings; 'Tis the flower with the white wings. Buoyed upon the quiet stream In the ...
The Convent Gardener Of Lamporechio (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
The Spleen (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The Eviction (William Allingham Poem)
In early morning twilight, raw and chill, Damp vapours brooding on the barren hill, Through miles of mire in steady ...
A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (John Wilmot Poems)
Chloe, In verse by your command I write. Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with ...
Hymn 84 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Salvation, righteousness, and strength in Christ. Isa. 45:21-25. Jehovah speaks! let Isr'el hear; Let all the earth rejoice and fear, ...
Psalm 50 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The last judgment. The Lord, the Sovereign, sends his summons forth, Calls the south nations and awakes the north; From ...
Baby’s Way (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment. It is not for nothing that he ...
Doors, Doors, Doors (Anne Sexton Poems)
1. Old Man Old man, it's four flights up and for what? Your room is hardly bigger than your bed. ...
Red Roses (Anne Sexton Poems)
Tommy is three and when he's bad his mother dances with him. She puts on the record, "Red Roses for ...
Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes? We are not of one mind. Are not like birds in ...
Love Is A Parallax (Sylvia Plath Poems)
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
sten… (Ogden Nash Poems)
There is a knocking in the skull, An endless silent shout Of something beating on a wall, And crying, "Let ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Sexism (David Lehman Poems)
The happiest moment in a woman's life Is when she hears the turn of her lover's key In the lock, ...
Black Stone On Top Of Nothing (Philip Levine Poems)
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon around the apartment building covering the front door. He ...