Rhodon And Iris. Act III (Ralph Knevet Poems)
SCEN. 1.Clematis Solo Well, if I were but once rid of her service, If I ever serv'd love-sicke mistris againe, I would feed all ...
Privacy Poems (39 Poems)
A Home Idyl (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
I.OVER the valley the storm-clouds blow,Dark and low;The wild air whitens with flying snow.Through the timber two lovers ride,Side by ...
Vision of War (Lincoln Colcord Poems)
1.I went out into the night of quiet stars;I looked up at the wheeling heavens, at the mysterious firmament;I thought ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Absence – Advice) (Henry Baker Poems)
Absence.Neglected, now, behold my Tresses flow:Nor sparkling Diamonds on my Fingers glow.All plain, and cheap, the humble Weeds I wear:No ...
The Contract (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid,In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid;The fertile subject never will be dry:'Tis ...
A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags (William Wordsworth Poems)
A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags,A rude and natural causeway, interposedBetween the water and a winding slopeOf copse ...
My Bores (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I take their hands with placid smileAnd words which social rules enforce,Though sadly conscious all the whileOf something very like ...
To **** (John Keats Poems)
Hadst thou liv'd in days of old,O what wonders had been toldOf thy lively countenance,And thy humid eyes that danceIn ...
Chamber Music (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(Lines read at the dinner given to Mr. and Mrs. E. J. de Coppert on the twenty-fifth anniversary of their ...
Paraphrase Of Seneca’s Thyestes, Act 2 (Matthew Hale Poems)
Let him that will ascend, the tottering SeatOf courtly Grandeur, and become as greatAs are his mounting Wishes: As for ...
My Lady The Tyranness (Francis Thompson Poems)
Me since your fair ambition bowsFeodary to those gracious brows,Is nothing mine will not confessYour sovran sweet rapaciousness?Though use to ...
First Love (Frederick William Faber Poems)
I have been long without a home, And yearned too much for one; And scanty are the deeds of faith ...
The Last Sundowner (C J Dennis Poems)
He sat upon a fallen log And heaved a long, deep sigh.His gnarled hand fondling his old dog As his ...
My Studio (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
I LOVE it, yet I hardly can tell why -My studio with its window to the sky,Far up above the ...
Hypochondria (Charles Lamb Poems)
By myself walking,To myself talking,When as I ruminateOn my untoward fate,Scarcely seem IAlone sufficiently,Black thoughts continuallyCrowding my privacy;They come unbidden,Like ...
To my quick ear the Leaves-confe (Emily Dickinson Poems)
To my quick ear the Leaves-conferred-The Bushes-they were Bells-I could not find a PrivacyFrom Nature's sentinels-In Cave if I presumed ...
On Being Human (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities ...
For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell Poem)
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
HIS GRANGE, OR PRIVATE WEALTH (Robert Herrick Poem)
Though clock, To tell how night draws hence, I've none, A cock I have to sing how day draws on: ...
HIS CONTENT IN THE COUNTRY (Robert Herrick Poem)
HERE, Here I live with what my board Can with the smallest cost afford; Though ne'er so mean the viands ...
San Sepolcro (Jorie Graham Poem)
In this blue light I can take you there, snow having made me a world of bone seen through to. ...
The Spoilsport (Robert Graves Poem)
My familiar ghost again Comes to see what he can see, Critic, son of Conscious Brain, Spying on our privacy. ...
Clothes chapter X (Khalil Gibran Poem)
And the weaver said, "Speak to us of Clothes." And he answered: Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet ...
Our Sin Taken (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In our repenting our confession to God in the privacy of our hearts repenting of our sin Our sin taken ...
The Contract (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
Initial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
On Being Born The Same Exact Day Of The Same Exact Year As Boy George (Denise Duhamel Poem)
We must have clamored for the same mother, hurried for the same womb. I know it now as I read ...
To my quick ear the Leaves — conferred — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To my quick ear the Leaves -- conferred -- The Bushes -- they were Bells -- I could not find ...
Hoping With Care (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We are honored and humble and earnest to share in events which would happen although we weren't there, a trifling ...