Orlando Furioso Canto 4 (Ludovico Ariosto Poems)
ARGUMENTThe old Atlantes suffers fatal wreck,Foiled by the ring, and young Rogero freed,Who soars in air till he appears a ...
Animals Poems (403 Poems)
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: Third Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO.There are several varieties of enthusiasts, which may all be reduced totwo kinds. While some only display blindness, stupidity, and ...
History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow) (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
The Sun's in its orbit, yet I feel morbid.Act 1PrologueLadies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let ...
Festus – XIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
In one of earth'sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all--wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent ...
Notes On Vision (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
Look where we worship. We all live in the city.The city forms- often physically, but inevitablypsychically- a circle. A Game. ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Third Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
_Interlocutors_:LIBERIO. LAODONIO.LIB. Reclining in the shade of a cypress-tree, the enthusiast findinghis mind free from other thoughts, it happened that ...
Essay On War (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
Man's sad necessity, destructive War,Sweeps to the grave the surplus of his sons,Where'er the kindly clime and soil inviteTo Love; ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: Second Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO.Now begins the enthusiast to display the affections and uncover thewounds which are for a sign in his body, and ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book I – Part 06 – Confutation Of Other Philosophers (Lucretius Poems)
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
Book I – Part 06 – Confutation Of Other Philosophers (Lucretius Poems)
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
Poems For Piraye (9 To 10 O’Clock Poems) (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
Remembering you is goodin prisonamid the newsof victory and deathas my fortieth year passes...Remembering you is goodyour handforgotten upon a ...
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part V (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
WINTER _We, whom God sets a task, Striving, who ne'er attain, We are the curst!--who ask Death, and still ask in vain. We, whom God ...
The New Creatures (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
Snakeskin jacketIndian eyesBrilliant hairHe moves in disturbedNile insectAir~~~You parade thru the soft summerWe watch your eager rifle decayYour wildernessYour teeming ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book IV – Part 04 – Some Vital Functions (Lucretius Poems)
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear ...
Book IV – Part 04 – Some Vital Functions (Lucretius Poems)
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear ...
Rural Sports: A Georgic – Canto I. (John Gay Poems)
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;In Windsor groves your easy hours ...
The Poem of Antar (Antarah (Antar) Ibn Shaddad Poems)
Have the poets left in the garment a place for a patch to be patched by me; and did you ...
A Session With Uncle Sidney (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
IONE OF HIS ANIMAL STORIES Now, Tudens, you sit on _this_ knee--and 'scuse It having no side-saddle on;--and, Jeems, You sit on _this_--and ...
Seasonal Cycle – Chapter 01 – Summer (Kalidasa Poems)
"Oh, dear, this utterly sweltering season of the highly rampant sun is drawing nigh, and it will always be good ...
December (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The house of December was all aglow, Each room was jolly and red; There were bulgy stockings ranged in a row, And holly ...
Music (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IMUSIC, on the air's edge, rides alone,Plumed like empastured Caesars of the skyWith a god's helmet; now, in the gold ...
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (William Carlos Williams Poems)
Of asphodel, that greeny flower,like a buttercupupon its branching stem-save that it's green and wooden-I come, my sweet,to sing to ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 05 – Origins Of Vegetable And Animal Life (Lucretius Poems)
And now to what remains!- Since I've resolvedBy what arrangements all things come to passThrough the blue regions of the ...
The Poem Of Imru al Qays (Imru al Qays ibn Hujr Poems)
Stop, oh my friends, let us pause to weep over the remembrance of my beloved.Here was her abode on the ...
An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
August (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
George Mullen’s Confession (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
For the sake of guilty conscience, and the heart that ticks thetimeOf the clockworks of my nature, I desire to ...
Ajanta (Muriel Rukeyser Poems)
CAME in my full youth to the midnight cavenerves ringing; and this thing I did alone.Wanting my fulness and not ...
April (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The April house was near a pond; It was made of reeds and of rushes, All helter-skelter and out of kelter, And ringed ...
Apology For Bad Dreams (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
IIn the purple light, heavy with redwood, the slopes drop seaward,Headlong convexities of forest, drawn in together to the steepravine. ...