Adams Complaint (Francis Sabie Poems)
New formed Adam of the reddish earth, Exilde from Eden, Paradice of pleasure By Gods decree cast down to woes ...
Poems about quips (20 Poems)
The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
The Borough. Letter V: The Election (George Crabbe Poems)
YES, our Election's past, and we've been free,Somewhat as madmen without keepers be;And such desire of Freedom has been shown,That ...
Killin (Alexander Anderson Poems)
The little village sleeps to-day,Save but for children at their play.The white clouds show their snowy breastAbove Glen-Aylmer's grassy crest.And ...
The Tavern Of Despair (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE wraiths of murdered hopes and loves Come whispering at the door, Come creeping through the weeping mist That drapes ...
The Death of the Old Year (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,And the winter winds are wearily sighing:Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,And tread ...
Young Woman of Cambridge, (E. E. Cummings Poems)
Gay is the captivating cognomen of a Young Woman of cambridge, mass.to whom nobody seems to have mentioned ye ...
The Woman In The Temple (George MacDonald Poems)
A still dark joy! A sudden face!Cold daylight, footsteps, cries!The temple's naked, shining space,Aglare with judging eyes!All in abandoned guilty ...
Kate (Alexander Anderson Poems)
On New Year's Night I met with Kate, The pretty hostess of our party;And we were in our palmiest state ...
Artemus Ward (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I like Artemus Ward, that quaint Rough, sturdy, antiquated Showman,Who travell'd Yankee-land to paint The social ills in man and ...
The Village Fiddler (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I see him yet, that grey old man, Whose fiddle made many a winter nightPass by as only fiddlers can, ...
The Boy Mind (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
WISH I was only as bright as my boy,Wish I could think of the things that he springs;His is a ...
The Misanthrope (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I think some spiteful fairyMy natal day did graceAnd leave me for a dowryA sympathetic face.Or why do people tell ...
To A Portrait Of Whistler In The Brooklyn Art Museum (Eleanor Rogers Cox Poems)
What waspish whim of Fate Was this that bade you hereHold dim, unhonored state, No single courtier near? Is there, ...
Sonnet CCCVIII: “Love sat at ease upon Time’s bony knee” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Love sat at ease upon Time's bony knee; Pulled his grey beard; paddled his finger-tips Among his wrinkles; smote his ...
Death and the Maiden (Elinor Wylie Poems)
BARCAROLE ON THE STYX Fair youth with the rose at your lips, A riddle is hid in your eyes; Discard ...
The Last Supper (Robert William Service Poems)
Marie Vaux of the Painted Lips, And the mouth so mocking gay, A wanton you to the finger-tips, Who break ...
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 ...
L’Allegro (John Milton Poems)
Hence, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...