stifled Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)

I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...

The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)

Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...

The Fire At Ross’s Farm (Henry Lawson Poems)

The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the west Selected on his ...

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (Galway Kinnell Poem)

For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman ...

Isabella or The Pot of Basil (John Keats Poem)

I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...

Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)

There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...

Endymion: Book IV (John Keats Poem)

Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...

Epistle To My Brother George (John Keats Poem)

Full many a dreary hour have I past, My brain bewildered, and my mind o'ercast With heaviness; in seasons when ...

Henry James in the Heart of the City (Erica Jong Poem)

We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City. Nothing would surprise him. The ...

The Glove and The Lions (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poem)

King Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, And one day as his lions fought, sat looking ...

The Levelled Churchyard (Thomas Hardy Poem)

"O passenger, pray list and catch Our sighs and piteous groans, Half stifled in this jumbled patch Of wrenched memorial ...

silence of reading (Rg Gregory Poem)

i like the silence of reading flat on my stomach on the woollen floor my legs waving upwards like the ...

The Last Leap (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)

ALL is over! fleet career, Dash of greyhound slipping thongs, Flight of falcon, bound of deer, Mad hoof-thunder in our ...

Mysterious Man (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Mysterious man Where have you gone; What is your story, really; Your allegiances, your faith? Hidden away from view Behind ...

By the Lake (Tu Fu Poem)

The old fellow from Shao-ling weeps with stifled sobs as he walks furtively by the bends of the Sepentine on ...

Storm Fear (Robert Frost Poem)

WHEN the wind works against us in the dark, And pelts with snow The lowest chamber window on the east, ...

Macavity: The Mystery Cat (T. S. Eliot Poem)

Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw-- For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's ...

Civilization — spurns — the Leopard! (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard! Was the Leopard -- bold? Deserts -- never rebuked her Satin -- Ethiop -- ...

I know ’tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish (fragment) (Samuel Coleridge Poems)

I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish Than if 'twere Truth. It has been often so: Must ...

Dejection: An Ode (Samuel Coleridge Poem)

Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...

Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)

PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...

The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)

The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...

I Am (John Clare Poem)

I am: yet what I am none cares or knows My friends forsake me like a memory lost, I am ...

Frances (Charlotte Bronte Poem)

SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...

Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)

"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...

The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)