Gold Poems (5431 Poems)
Rhodon And Iris. Act II (Ralph Knevet Poems)
SCEN. 1.Poneria, Agnostus.Po. Bold foolish wickednesse is that Which walks by day, expos’d to the world’s eie. Sinne is the daughter of the darkest night, And therefore doth abhorre to come to light. Give me that cole blacke sinne that can lye hid. Under the candid robes … Continue reading
Among the Hills (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
PRELUDEALONG the roadside, like the flowers of goldThat tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,And the red pennons of the cardinal-flowersHang motionless upon their upright staves.The sky is hot and hazy, and the wind,Vying-weary with its … Continue reading
The Eve Of St. Agnes (John Keats Poems)
I.St. Agnes’ Eve–Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb were the Beadsman’s fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted … Continue reading
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part II (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
EARLY SUMMER _The cricket in the rose-bush hedge Sings by the vine-entangled gate; The slim moon slants a timid edge Of pearl through one low cloud of slate; Around dark door and window-ledge Like dreams the shadows wait. And through the summer dusk she goes, On her … Continue reading
The Ghetto (Lola Ridge Poems)
I Cool, inaccessible airIs floating in velvety blackness shot with steel-blue lights,But no breath stirs the heatLeaning its ponderous bulk upon the GhettoAnd most on Hester street… The heat…Nosing in the body’s overflow,Like a beast pressing its great steaming belly … Continue reading
A Parson’s Letter To A Young Poet (Jean Ingelow Poems)
They said “Too late, too late, the work is done;Great Homer sang of glory and strong menAnd that fair Greek whose fault all these longyearsWins no forgetfulness nor ever can;For yet cold eyes upon her frailty bend,For yet the world … Continue reading
The Golden Legend: Prologue & 1. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL. Night and storm. LUCIFER, with the Powers of theAir, trying to tear down the Cross. _Lucifer._ HASTEN! hasten!O ye spirits!From its station drag the ponderousCross of iron, that to mock usIs uplifted high in air! … Continue reading
Vision Of Columbus – Book 6 (Joel Barlow Poems)
Naval action of De Grasse and Graves. Capture of Cornwallis..Thus view’d the sage. When, lo, in eastern skies,From glooms unfolding, Gallia’s coasts arise.Bright o’er the scenes of state, a golden throne,Instarr’d with gems and hung with purple, shone.Great Louis there, … Continue reading
The Iliad: Book 3 (Homer Poems)
When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain,the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that screamoverhead when rain and winter drive them over the flowing waters ofOceanus to bring death and destruction on … Continue reading
Stanza’s Concerning Some Persons And Things, That Are Mentioned In The Holy Scriptures (Rees Prichard Poems)
FROM Adam’s lapse, this useful lesson learn,“As the least sin, there’s nothing costs so much”Thence, too, the danger thou may’st well discern,“All things forbidden by the Lord, to touch.” Old Eve, by her offence and fatal crime,Has thrown a powerful … Continue reading