The Simple Line (Laura Riding Jackson Poem)
The secrets of the mind convene splendidly, Though the mind is meek. To be aware inwardly of brain and beauty ...
Poems about splendor (31 Poems)
The Broken Balance (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
Contemplation Of The Sword (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly ...
Love The Wild Swan (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
"I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or ...
Shine, Perishing Republic (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire And protest, only a bubble in ...
The Purse-Seine (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight They could not tell where ...
For the Moore Centennial Celebration (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
I ENCHANTER of Erin, whose magic has bound us, Thy wand for one moment we fondly would claim, Entranced while ...
Æstivation (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
An Unpublished Poem, by my late Latin Tutor. In candent ire the solar splendor flames; The foles, languescent, pend from ...
The White Lilies (Louise Gluck Poem)
As a man and woman make a garden between them like a bed of stars, here they linger in the ...
Afire (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Ablaze with orange, with yellow the tree afire drenched in the sunset through the thinning branches dying in its splendor ...
A proper trewe idyll of camelot (Eugene Field Poem)
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a ...
Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River (Tu Fu Poem)
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable, And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy. I look up our southern ...
Loss And Gain (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Virtue runs before the muse And defies her skill, She is rapt, and doth refuse To wait a painter's will. ...
A Display Of Mackeral (Mark Doty Poem)
They lie in parallel rows, on ice, head to tail, each a foot of luminosity barred with black bands, which ...
The Window (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
All night long, by a distant bell, The passing hours were notched On the dark, while her breathing rose and ...
Flood-Tide of Flowers (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
IN HOLLAND The laggard winter ebbed so slow With freezing rain and melting snow, It seemed as if the earth ...
Merry Autumn (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
It's all a farce,-these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the ...
One of the ones that Midas touched (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One of the ones that Midas touched Who failed to touch us all Was that confiding Prodigal The reeling Oriole ...
The Winter Scene (Bliss Carman Poem)
I The rutted roads are all like iron; skies Are keen and brilliant; only the oak-leaves cling In the bare ...
In Church (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
I love the church: its labara, its silver vessels, its candleholders, the lights, the ikons, the pulpit. Whenever I go ...
The Aristocrat (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
The Devil is a gentleman and askes you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far ...
Narva and Mored (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
In heaven (Stephen Crane Poem)
In heaven, Some little blades of grass Stood before God. "What did you do?" Then all save one of the ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Betrothed (Louise Bogan Poem)
You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth, You have said my name as a prayer. Here ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Rain After a Vaudeville Show (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
Portrait of a Boy (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
After the whipping he crawled into bed, Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. How funny uncle's hat had ...
Benediction (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
When, by decree of the supreme power, The Poet appears in this annoyed world, His mother, blasphemous out of horror ...
A Letter From Li Po (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...