Kypris (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
WHAT hast thou done, Kypris?Thou hast pressed thy lip against the cheekOf that girl sleeping!Didst thou think, when creepingTo her ...
Poems about sayest (21 Poems)
The Dauntless Three (With Apologies to the Shade of Macaulay) (A B Banjo Paterson Poems)
Chris Watson, of the Parliament,By his Caucus Gods he sworeThat the great Labor PartyShould suffer wrong no more.By his Caucus ...
To A World-Reform (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
I Have sacrificed all, thou sayest, "that man I might succor; Vain the attempt; my reward was ...
Sonnet LXXXII: Hoarded Joy (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
I said: "Nay, pluck not,-let the first fruit be:Even as thou sayest, it is sweet and red,But let it ripen ...
The Story of Ung (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
The Naulahka (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
The Answer (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path, Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath, Because a sudden ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
I Will Not Let Thee Go (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
I will not let thee go. Ends all our month-long love in this? Can it be summed up so, Quit ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
Mater Triumphalis (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
Fridolin (The Walk To The Iron Factory) (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear, Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear. She ...
Genius (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
"Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me, And what their followers' band boldly and ...
To A World-Reformer (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
"I Have sacrificed all," thou sayest, "that man I might succor; Vain the attempt; my reward was persecution and hate." ...
The Dauntless Three (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Chris Watson, of the Parliament, By his Caucus Gods he swore That the great Labor Party Should suffer wrong no ...
The Battle of Cressy (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 26th of August, the sun was burning hot, In the year of 1346, which will never be ...
Atalanta’s Race (William Morris Poems)
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
The Earthly Paradise: The Lady of the Land (William Morris Poems)
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...