Recompense (Constance Naden Poems)
THE wine-flushed monarch slept--but in his ear An angel breathed--"Repent; or choose the flame Quenchless." In dread he woke, but ...
Poems about quenchless (21 Poems)
Sonnet CCLXXXIX: “This was my lady’s birthday, and yet I” (George Henry Boker Poems)
This was my lady's birthday, and yet I At dawn heard not the cannon's brazen throat, Nor saw the fluttering ...
Amor (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
This is the fire of Hestia's careful hearth;The flame that fed on many-towered Troy;Selene's light about the Latmian boy;The all-consuming ...
Deeds (Archibald Lampman Poems)
'Tis well with words, oh masters, ye have sought,To turn men's eyes yearning to the great and true,Yet first take ...
No more lewd lays of lighter loves I sing (Barnabe Barnes Poems)
No more lewd lays of lighter loves I sing,Nor teach my lustful muse abused to flyWith sparrows' plumes, and for ...
Sonnet CCXXII: “Saint Paul has said this mortal shall arise” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Saint Paul has said this mortal shall arise Freed from its grossness, palpable in form, Vital, organic, pulsing with a ...
Ave Atque Vale (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Black dreams; the pale and sorrowful desireWhose eyes have looked on Lethe and have seen,Deep in the sliding ebon tide ...
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 ...
The Philosopher (Emily Bronte Poem)
"Enough of thought, philosopher! Too long hast thou been dreaming Unlightened, in this chamber drear, While summer's sun is beaming! ...
Oh, For The Time When I Shall Sleep (Emily Bronte Poem)
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity, And never care how rain may steep, Or snow may ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter III (William Blake Poems)
1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visage Emerge from the darkness; his hand On the rock of eternity ...
The Wanderings of Oisin: Book I (William Butler Yeats Poems)
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
Apologia (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at ...
Song of the Universal. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
Still, though the One I Sing. (Walt Whitman Poems)
STILL, though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him Revolt, ...
Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, ...
Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
The Altar (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Alone, remote, nor witting where I went, I found an altar builded in a dream- A fiery place, whereof there ...
A Farewell to False Love (Sir Walter Raleigh Poems)
Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies, A mortal foe and enemy to rest, An envious boy, from whom all ...
Corn Grinders (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
O little mouse, why dost thou cry While merry stars laugh in the sky? Alas! alas! my lord is dead! ...