What Were They Like? (Denise Levertov Poem)
Did the people of Viet Nam use lanterns of stone? Did they hold ceremonies to reverence the opening of buds? ...
Poems about terraces (21 Poems)
Landscape of a Pissing Multitude (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
The men kept to themselves: they were waiting for the swiftness of the last cyclists. The women kept to themselves: ...
Moonlight (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
As a pale phantom with a lamp Ascends some ruin's haunted stair, So glides the moon along the damp Mysterious ...
The World (George Herbert Poem)
Love built a stately house, where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs ...
The Mountain (Robert Frost Poem)
The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once: I noticed ...
Journey Of The Magi (T. S. Eliot Poem)
'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
Lyric of Love to Leah (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Lyric of Love to Leah (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Dream Song 102: The sunburnt terraces which swans make home (John Berryman Poem)
The sunburnt terraces which swans make home with water purling, Macchu Pichu died like Delphi long agoâ?" a message to ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04: Up high black walls, up sombre terraces (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Up high black walls, up sombre terraces, Clinging like luminous birds to the sides of cliffs, The yellow lights went ...
Consolation (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Mist clogs the sunshine. Smoky dwarf houses Hem me round everywhere; A vague dejection Weighs down my soul. Yet, while ...
The Pick (Cecilia Woloch Poems)
I watched him swinging the pick in the sun, breaking the concrete steps into chunks of rock, and the rocks ...
Paris (Alan Seeger Poems)
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
The Last Meeting (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
Epipsychidion (excerpt) (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Emily, A ship is floating in the harbour now, A wind is hovering o'er the mountain's brow; There is a ...
The Storm (Theodore Roethke Poems)
1 Against the stone breakwater, Only an ominous lapping, While the wind whines overhead, Coming down from the mountain, Whistling ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, (Alexander Pope Poems)
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures: Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe ...
In Salutation to the Eternal Peace (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
Men say the world is full of fear and hate, And all life's ripening harvest-fields await The restless sickle of ...
The Earthly Paradise: The Lady of the Land (William Morris Poems)
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...