One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
Poems about asphodel (21 Poems)
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 ...
Plutonian Ode (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
An Asphodel (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
O dear sweet rosy unattainable desire ...how sad, no way to change the mad cultivated asphodel, the visible reality... and ...
The Trial by Existence (Robert Frost Poem)
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...
All overgrown by cunning moss, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
All overgrown by cunning moss, All interspersed with weed, The little cage of "Currer Bell" In quiet "Haworth" laid. Gathered ...
Sonnet 27 – My own Beloved, who hast lifted me (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
My own Beloved, who hast lifted me From this drear flat of earth where I was thrown, And, in betwixt ...
CHARMIDES (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
Ravenna (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
Santa Decca (Oscar Wilde Poems)
The Gods are dead: no longer do we bring To grey-eyed Pallas crowns of olive-leaves! Demeter's child no more hath ...
Athanasia (Oscar Wilde Poems)
To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naught Of all the great things men have saved from Time, ...
Phedre (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(To Sarah Bernhardt) How vain and dull this common world must seem To such a One as thou, who should'st ...
The New Helen (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Where hast thou been since round the walls of Troy The sons of God fought in that great emprise? Why ...
Panthea (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, From passionate pain to deadlier delight, - I am too young to ...
from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” (William Carlos Williams Poems)
Of asphodel, that greeny flower, like a buttercup upon its branching stem- save that it's green and wooden- I come, ...
Demeter And Persephone (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Faint as a climate-changing bird that flies All night across the darkness, and at dawn Falls on the threshold of ...
The Lotos-eaters (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they ...
A Pot Of Tea (Robert William Service Poems)
You make it in your mess-tin by the brazier's rosy gleam; You watch it cloud, then settle amber clear; You ...
The Witch Of Atlas (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Necrological (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
The friar had said his paternosters duly And scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept; But with much riddling ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...