The Intruder (Christopher Morley Poems)
AS I sat, to sift my dreaming To the meet and needed word, Came a merry Interruption With insistence to ...
Poems about antic (21 Poems)
Melbourne Sonnets: I: In Collins Street (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
THIS city's greatness glares - a wild obsession,New, crude, harsh, unremembering, un-romantlc;Some latent thing gropes here, unseen, gigantic,With Internecine commerce ...
Sonnet CLXII: “If it has been the misery of my fate” (George Henry Boker Poems)
If it has been the misery of my fate To mix too closely with the knave and fool, In these ...
The Butchers At Prayer (Donald Marquis Poems)
EACH nation as it draws the sword And flings its standard to the air Petitions piously the Lord -- Vexing ...
London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poem)
We, the Fairies, blithe and antic, Of dimensions not gigantic, Though the moonshine mostly keep us, Oft in orchards frisk ...
The Progress of Poesy (Thomas Gray Poem)
A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A ...
A Fool For Evergreen (James A. Emanuel Poem)
A little bit of fool in me Hides behind my inmost tree And pops into the narrow path I walk ...
Sonnet XXXI: Methinks I See (Michael Drayton Poem)
To the Critic Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer, And tax my Muse with this fantastic grace, Turning my ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
The Black Virgin (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
One in thy thousand statues we salute thee On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim Who walk in forest ...
The old pond (Matsuo Basho Poem)
Following are several translations of the 'Old Pond' poem, which may be the most famous of all haiku: Furuike ya ...
From The Short Story Shadow-Children (Louisa May Alcott Poem)
Little shadows, little shadows Dancing on the chamber wall, While I sit beside the hearthstone Where the red flames rise ...
A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (John Wilmot Poems)
Chloe, In verse by your command I write. Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with ...
Goblin Revel (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
In gold and grey, with fleering looks of sin, I watch them come; by two, by three, by four, Advancing ...
Sunshine (Robert William Service Poems)
I Flat as a drum-head stretch the haggard snows; The mighty skies are palisades of light; The stars are blurred; ...
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
The Town Down by the River (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I Said the Watcher by the Way To the young and the unladen, To the boy and to the maiden, ...
Morning along Shore (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
Hark, oh hark the elfin laughter All the little waves along, As if echoes speeding after Mocked a merry merman's ...
Ghoti (Heather McHugh Poems)
The gh comes from rough, the o from women's, and the ti from unmentionables--presto: there's the perfect English instance of ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...