Poems about superior (51 Poems)
Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones– In fact, he’s remarkably fat. He doesn’t haunt pubs–he has eight or nine clubs, For he’s the St. James’s Street Cat! He’s the Cat we all greet as he walks down the street … Continue reading
To The Pious Memory Of The Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew (John Dryden Poem)
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck’d from Paradise, In spreading branches more sublimely rise, Rich with immortal green above the rest: Whether, adopted to some neighbouring star, Thou … Continue reading
Ode (John Dryden Poem)
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and Painting Thou youngest Virgin Daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the blest; Whose palms, new-plucked from … Continue reading
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli’d his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin’d: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni’d Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; … Continue reading
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted – One need not be a House – The Brain has Corridors — surpassing Material Place – Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting External Ghost Than its interior Confronting – … Continue reading
We miss Her, not because We see — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
We miss Her, not because We see – The Absence of an Eye – Except its Mind accompany Abridge Society As slightly as the Routes of Stars – Ourselves — asleep below – We know that their superior Eyes Include … Continue reading
Two Lengths has every Day — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Two Lengths has every Day – Its absolute extent And Area superior By Hope or Horror lent – Eternity will be Velocity or Pause At Fundamental Signals From Fundamental Laws. To die is not to go – On Doom’s consummate … Continue reading
Of Tribulation, these are They (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Of Tribulation, these are They, Denoted by the White – The Spangled Gowns, a lesser Rank Of Victors — designate – All these — did conquer – But the ones who overcame most times – Wear nothing commoner than Snow … Continue reading
Me, change! Me, alter! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Me, change! Me, alter! Then I will, when on the Everlasting Hill A Smaller Purple grows – At sunset, or a lesser glow Flickers upon Cordillera – At Day’s superior close! (Emily Dickinson)
I watched the Moon around the House (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I watched the Moon around the House Until upon a Pane – She stopped — a Traveller’s privilege — for Rest – And there upon I gazed — as at a stranger – The Lady in the Town Doth think … Continue reading