“Full Well I Know . . . ” (Hartley Coleridge Poems)
FULL well I know — my friends — ye look on meA living specter of my Father dead —Had I ...
Poems about specter (21 Poems)
Where Once Poe Walked (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Eternal brood the shadows on this ground,Dreaming of centuries that have gone before;Great elms rise solemnly by slab and mound,Arched ...
The Sotweed Factor (3) (Ebenezer Cook Poems)
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse, Of Friends unkind, and empty Purse: Plagues worse than fill'd ...
Flight Of Leeona (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
In bloom gemm'd depths, where Sylvan branches meetAbove dim paths, that thread a still retreat;Where light on tip-toe shy, steals ...
Rose of Aberlone (Brainerd Currie Poems)
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
Autumn Shade (Edgar Bowers Poems)
1 The autumn shade is thin. Grey leaves lie faint Where they will lie, and, where the thick green was, ...
The Closing Year (George D Prentice Poems)
'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence nowIs brooding like a gentle spirit o'erThe still and pulseless world. Hark! on the ...
The Vintage (Atom Yarjanian Poems)
How abundant was autumn this year… Its heroic suns and blessings, After our pains, our ashes and deaths, Have filled ...
Our Sister Of The Streets (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
She comes not with the conscious grace Of gentle, winsome womanhood, Nor yet, withal, the flaunting face ...
Little Giffen (Francis Orray Ticknor Poems)
Out of the focal and foremost fire,Out of the hospital walls as dire,Smitten of grapeshot and gangrene,(Eighteenth battle and he ...
Sonnet CLXXXVII: “Climb glory’s ladder to the topmost height” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Climb glory's ladder to the topmost height, Rifle the treasures of the jealous land, In gold and purple take thy ...
Sonnet CLXXXIX: “Another picture of my love I have” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Another picture of my Love I have, Painted in colors that will never fade- The rosy glow, deep eyes and ...
Two Wishes XI (Khalil Gibran Poem)
In the silence of the night Death descended from God toward the earth. He hovered above a city and pierced ...
The Beauty of Death XIV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Part One - The Calling Let me sleep, for my soul is intoxicated with love and Let me rest, for ...
The Creation I (Khalil Gibran Poem)
The God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of ...
Peace XVIII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The ...
Sunflower Sutra (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Cypher (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A cipher, nullity, a phantom stood before them unknown and unacknowledged time lost never to be regained lives turned, away ...
The Haunted Beach (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Upon a lonely desart Beach Where the white foam was scatter'd, A little shed uprear'd its head Though lofty Barks ...
Poetry (Claude McKay Poems)
Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower, And seek to hide my tortured soul from thee. Bowing my head in ...