Asphodel (Edwin Evans Ewing Poems)
I'll think of thee, I'll think of thee,When raging tempests wildly blow,Mid storm and darkness—wond'rous powers!Heaping the stainless, virgin snowAbove ...
Poems about somber (21 Poems)
Musings (Charles Evans Poems)
Few the joys—oh! few and scattered—That from fleeting life we borrow;And we're paying, ever paying,With an usury of sorrow!If a ...
Anterior Life (La Vie Anterieure) (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Long since, I lived in lordly porches frontingWith thronged, enormous pillars to the tide,Where day as in basaltic caverns diedWith ...
The Past (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
I fling the past behind me, like a robe Worn threadbare at the seams, and out of date. I have ...
Laus Mortis (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
The imperishable phantoms, Love and Fame,Nor Beauty, burning on the mist and mireA fugitive uncapturable fire,Nor God, that is a ...
Don Juan Sings (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Lightly kiss and lightly passEre the sleeping Love shall wake;Nimble-footed, lean and takeBlossoms from a blind morass.Past the dragon coiled ...
Before The Snow (Bliss William Carman Poems)
NOW soon, ah, very soon, I knowThe trumpets of the north will blow,And the great winds will come to bringThe ...
Parent’s Pantoum (Carolyn Kizer Poems)
for Maxine Kumin Where did these enormous children come from, More ladylike than we have ever been? Some of ours ...
Shining White (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
His countenance changed imbued with God's love his clothes dazzling becoming shining white Are we aglow is our face lit ...
Before the Forty Days (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the reminiscent moment Moses taking Joshua climbing the mountain Christ and the disciples under the cloud of God God ...
Before the Congregation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Another hurdle, a step on the path to ministry, to her calling They met in the sanctuary, somber, orderly But ...
Bereft (Robert Frost Poem)
Where had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? What would it take my standing ...
A Song before Sailing (Bliss Carman Poem)
Wind of the dead men's feet, Blow down the empty street Of this old city by the sea With news ...
Heritage (Countee Cullen Poem)
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
The house where I was born (05) (Yves Bonnefoy Poem)
In the same dream I am lying in the hollow of a boat, My forehead and eyes against the curved ...
Dream Song 74: Henry hates the world. What the world to Henry (John Berryman Poem)
Henry hates the world. What the world to Henry did will not bear thought. Feeling no pain, Henry stabbed his ...
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town (Charles Bukowski Poem)
Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian ...
From “Snow-Bound,” 11:1-40, 116-154 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder ...
Imitation (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
I saw the Death, and she was seating By quiet entrance at my own home, I saw the doors were ...
In the footsteps of the walking air (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
In the footsteps of the walking air Sky's prophetic chickens weave their cloth of awe And hillsides lift green wings ...
Nothing But Death (Pablo Neruda Poems)
There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound, the heart moving through ...