A Pastoral Dialogue (Melibæus, Alcippe, Asteria, Licida, Alcimedon, and Amira. ) (Anne Killigrew Poem)
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
Poems about weights (21 Poems)
The Fatal Sisters (Thomas Gray Poem)
Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepares!) Iron-sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened ...
The Fear Of Burial (Louise Gluck Poem)
In the empty field, in the morning, the body waits to be claimed. The spirit sits beside it, on a ...
Weights Lifted (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the words he raised all of our prayers raised up, offered at your rail laid at the foot of ...
Spoken Word (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The words on the pages, The assigned words For the day, often, all too often, Speak to you, to me, ...
Stepping into the Unknown (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Faith empowers, liberates removes the chains, the weights, the shackles on their feet, the spirits of their lives Enabling the ...
Heroic Stanzas (John Dryden Poem)
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun Seductive in the Air -- That Tun is hollow -- but the ...
I can wade Grief (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of ...
Meditations Divine and Moral (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, ...
The General Public (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Syringa (John Ashbery Poem)
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
God Full Of Mercy (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
God-Full-of-Mercy, the prayer for the dead. If God was not full of mercy, Mercy would have been in the world, ...
The Seraph and Poet (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
The seraph sings before the manifest God-One, and in the burning of the Seven, And with the full life of ...
Discontent (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
LIGHT human nature is too lightly tost And ruffled without cause, complaining on-- Restless with rest, until, being overthrown, It ...
The Seraph and the Poet (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
THE seraph sings before the manifest God-One, and in the burning of the Seven, And with the full life of ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter VII (William Blake Poems)
1. They named the child Orc, he grew Fed with milk of Enitharmon 2. Los awoke her; O sorrow & ...
What Are Big Girls Made Of? (Marge Piercy Poems)
The construction of a woman: a woman is not made of flesh of bone and sinew belly and breasts, elbows ...
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (Christina Rossetti Poems)
1 Lo d? che han detto a' dolci amici addio. - Dante Amor, con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci! - ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...