The Basket (Amy Lowell Poem)
I The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted, in the round of light thrown ...
Poems about scorching (31 Poems)
The Matrix (Amy Lowell Poem)
Goaded and harassed in the factory That tears our life up into bits of days Ticked off upon a clock ...
The Allies (Amy Lowell Poem)
August 14th, 1914 Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry of hoarse throats, it floats ...
The Great Grey Plain (Henry Lawson Poem)
Out West, where the stars are brightest, Where the scorching north wind blows, And the bones of the dead gleam ...
The Never-Never Country (Henry Lawson Poem)
By homestead, hut, and shearing-shed, By railroad, coach, and track -- By lonely graves of our brave dead, Up-Country and ...
The Dream of Eugene Aram (Thomas Hood Poem)
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: ...
Under the Violets (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
HER hands are cold; her face is white; No more her pulses come and go; Her eyes are shut to ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
DEDICATION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared The gentle sleep that round my senses clung, And I, awak'ning, from my ...
John Skelton (Robert Graves Poem)
What could be dafter Than John Skelton's laughter? What sound more tenderly Than his pretty poetry? So where to rank ...
The Context of Creation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The beauty of creation is found in the context of creation the story of how we began the world beginning ...
A spring poem from bion (Eugene Field Poem)
One asketh: "Tell me, Myrson, tell me true: What's the season pleaseth you? Is it summer suits you best, When ...
To Death (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
O King of Terrors, whose unbounded Sway All that have Life, must certainly Obey; The King, the Priest, the Prophet, ...
The Tree (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Fair tree! for thy delightful shade 'Tis just that some return be made; Sure some return is due from me ...
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
The Man Bitten By Fleas (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Peevish Fellow laid his Head On Pillows, stuff'd with Down; But was no sooner warm in Bed, With hopes ...
For the Better (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred, With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed; Enquiring, how he did ...
The Fear (Robert Frost Poem)
A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their ...
Sonnet XL: My Heart the Anvil (Michael Drayton Poem)
My heart the anvil where my thoughts do beat; My words the hammers fashioning my desire; My breast the forge ...
The Old Song (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew ...
Contemplations (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
God Has Pity On Kindergarten Children (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
God has pity on kindergarten children, He pities school children -- less. But adults he pities not at all. He ...
185. The Humble Petition of Bruar Water (Robert Burns Poem)
MY lord, I know your noble ear Woe ne'er assails in vain; Embolden'd thus, I beg you'll hear Your humble ...
26. John Barleycorn: A Ballad (Robert Burns Poems)
THERE was three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, And they hae sworn a solemn oath ...
468. Song-On the Seas and far away (Robert Burns Poems)
HOW can my poor heart be glad, When absent from my sailor lad; How can I the thought forego- He's ...
John Barleycorn (Robert Burns Poems)
There were three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, An' they hae sworn a solemn oath ...
68. The Holy Fair (Robert Burns Poems)
UPON 1 a simmer Sunday morn When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An' snuff ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
The Light o’ the Moon (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood ...