Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
Poems about thwarted (21 Poems)
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Bride of Frankenstein (Edward Field Poem)
The Baron has decided to mate the monster, to breed him perhaps, in the interests of pure science, his only ...
Albert Down Under (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
Etienne de la Boéce (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I serve you not, if you I follow, Shadow-like, o'er hill and hollow, And bend my fancy to your leading, ...
Kinky (Denise Duhamel Poem)
They decide to exchange heads. Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin over Ken's bulging neck socket. His wide ...
Sonnet LIX: As Love and I (Michael Drayton Poem)
As Love and I, late harbor'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain: "In Love there is no ...
They put Us far apart (Emily Dickinson Poem)
They put Us far apart -- As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula -- We signified "These see" -- ...
At His Grave (Alfred Austin Poem)
LEAVE me a little while alone, Here at his grave that still is strown With crumbling flower and wreath; The ...
The Princess (part 4) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun, If that hypothesis of theirs be sound' Said Ida; 'let us ...
A Channel Crossing (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
Athabaska Dick (Robert William Service Poems)
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
Prelude to an Unwritten Masterpiece (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
You like my bird-sung gardens: wings and flowers; Calm landscapes for emotion; star-lit lawns; And Youth against the sun-rise ... ...
The Valley of the Shadow (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
The Man Against the Sky (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
Alma Mater (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
He knocked, and I beheld him at the door-- A vision for the gods to verify. "What battered ancient is ...
The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...
The Hill (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ...
Eugenia Todd (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Have any of you, passers-by, Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort? Or a pain in the side ...
What do animals dream? (Yahia Lababidi Poems)
Do they dream of past lives and unlived dreams unspeakably human or unimaginably bestial? Do they struggle to catch in ...
The Pangolin (Marianne Moore Poems)
Another armored animal--scale lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central tail-row! This near artichoke with head ...