The Young Friar (Alfred Noyes Poems)
When leaves broke out on the wild briar, And bells for matins rung,Sorrow came to the old friar ...
Poems about vespers (21 Poems)
The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)
He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...
From Monte Pincio (Bjornstjerne Bjornson Poems)
Evening is coming, the sun waxes red,Radiant colors from heaven are beamingLife's lustrous longings in infinite streaming;—Glory in death o'er ...
If I Were A Monk, And If Thou Wert A Nun (George MacDonald Poems)
If I were a monk, and thou wert a nun,Pacing it wearily, wearily,Twixt chapel and cell till day were done—Wearily, ...
31st December, 1883 (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
OPEN the beautiful gates of the West,A chariot of gold is waiting the guestWho, for twelve rolling moons, has been ...
Cinqueterre (Edoardo Firpo Poems)
The slope rises rapidly in the shadow of the houses; amid the eaves and gutters appears a limpid sky... The ...
The Crabs (Brian Vrepont Poems)
The crabs are lunching;An hour I've watched, and still they eat,Pincering microcosms from the scaly rocks,Time to split-second mouth shutteringsLink ...
Sonnet CXII: “Gone, gone! The rayless window sheds no light” (George Henry Boker Poems)
CXIIGone, gone! The rayless window sheds no light Upon my upturned eyes; the graceful girl Whose distant presence made my ...
Dead Men On Parade (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
From Mericourt to Avion'Tis but a mile or so:(Only the span 'tixt life and death,I found, so long ago!)To saunter ...
He Did Love (Anna Akhmatova Poems)
He did love three things in this world:Choir chants at vespers, albino peacocks,And worn, weathered maps of America.And he did ...
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 ...
The Eve Of St. Agnes (John Keats Poem)
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
I shall keep singing! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I shall keep singing! Birds will pass me On their way to Yellower Climes -- Each -- with a Robin's ...
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
Soliloquy Of The Spanish Cloister (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Gr-r-r---there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would ...
Sabbaths, W.I. (Derek Walcott Poems)
Those villages stricken with the melancholia of Sunday, in all of whose ocher streets one dog is sleeping those volcanoes ...
Pelleas And Ettarre (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)
He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...
Harp of the North, Farewell! (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark, On purple peaks a deeper shade descending; In twilight copse the ...
Julian and Maddalo (excerpt) (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I rode one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice: ...
Golfre, Gothic Swiss Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
I. Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow O'er LEMAN'S Lake rose, tow'ring; The BARON GOLFRE'S Castle strong Was seen, the ...