HOW HIS SOUL CAME ENSNARED (Robert Herrick Poem)
My soul would one day go and seek For roses, and in Julia's cheek A richess of those sweets she ...
Poems about thrall (31 Poems)
peach-power (Rg Gregory Poem)
peaches exude this thrall - reminders of those luscious whereabouts that lips best find their precious sips to cry let ...
Trilogy of Passion: II. ELEGY. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
TO A GOLDEN HEART THAT HE WORE ROUND HIS NECK. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[Addressed, during the Swiss tour already mentioned, to a present Lily had given him, during the time of their happy ...
Beauty Clear and Fair (John Fletcher Poem)
BEAUTY clear and fair, Where the air Rather like a perfume dwells; Where the violet and the rose Their blue ...
Bond and Free (Robert Frost Poem)
Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about-- Wall within wall to shut fear out. ...
William Rufus (Marriott Edgar Poem)
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
Ode To Beauty (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
Doth Then The World Go Thus? (William Drummond Poem)
Doth then the world go thus? doth all thus move? Is this the justice which on earth we find? Is ...
1. Faith (Mark Doty Poem)
"I've been having these awful dreams, each a little different, though the core's the same- we're walking in a field, ...
Remember with affection (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
They'll always tell a story those obscure mementos stacked on dusty shelves, demure and silent like the other gaudy tributes ...
Night’s sentinel (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
A Hymn (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and ...
The Friar’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
A Valentine (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't ...
The Mores (John Clare Poem)
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene Bespread with rush and one eternal green That never felt the rage ...
The Nightingale’s Nest (John Clare Poems)
Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove, And list the nightingale- she dwells just here. Hush ! let the wood-gate ...
Summer Evening (John Clare Poem)
The frog half fearful jumps across the path, And little mouse that leaves its hole at eve Nimbles with timid ...
Farewell (John Clare Poem)
Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river And the flags where the butter-bump hides in forever; Farewell to ...
Excerpts from “Poetry” (Michael Burch Poem)
Poetry, I found you where at last they chained and bound you; with devices all around you to torture and ...
Folk Tune (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
It's not that the Muse feels like clamming up, it's more like high time for the lad's last nap. And ...
Elegy (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
It's not that the Muse feels like clamming up, it's more like high time for the lad's last nap. And ...
Contemplations (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
Dream Song 114: Henry in trouble whirped out lonely whines (John Berryman Poem)
Henry in trouble whirped out lonely whines. When ich when was ever not in trouble? But did he whip out ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Mesmerism (Robert Browning Poem)
I. All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange ...
536. Song-This is no my ain lassie (Robert Burns Poem)
Chorus-This is no my ain lassie, Fair tho, the lassie be; Weel ken I my ain lassie, Kind love is ...
538. Song-Now Spring has clad the grove in green (Robert Burns Poem)
NOW spring has clad the grove in green, And strew'd the lea wi' flowers; The furrow'd, waving corn is seen ...
313. Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots (Robert Burns Poems)
NOW Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the ...
84. Address to the Deil (Robert Burns Poems)
O THOU! whatever title suit thee- Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie, Clos'd ...