Passion Uninspired By Sentiment (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"OH! Passion, seducer of heart and of soul! Thou transport tyrannic! half pleasure, half pain! Why consum'st thou the breast ...
Poems about aspires (21 Poems)
Influence (Ada Cambridge Poems)
As in the deeps of embryonic night, Out of unfathomable obscurities Of Nature's womb, the little life-germs rise, Pushing and ...
The Ebb of Day. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
The ebb of day has now begun;The waters to the low west crowd;But one forgotten wisp of cloudGlows like a ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
The Indian Burying Ground (Philip Freneau Poem)
In spite of all the learn'd have said; I still my old opinion keep, The posture, that we give the ...
The King and the Shepherd (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
For every Bird a Nest (Emily Dickinson Poem)
For every Bird a Nest -- Wherefore in timid quest Some little Wren goes seeking round -- Wherefore when boughs ...
Dtatue And The Bust, The (Robert Browning Poem)
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
The Statue and the Bust (Robert Browning Poem)
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
Breadth And Depth (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Full many a shining wit one sees, With tongue on all things well conversing; The what can charm, the what ...
Faust In Old Age (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
"Poet and veteran of childhood, look! See in me the obscene, for you have love, For you have hatred, you, ...
From The Graveyard By The Sea (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
(After Valery) This hushed surface where the doves parade Amid the pines vibrates, amid the graves; Here the noon's justice ...
Away, Melancholy (Stevie Smith Poems)
Away, melancholy, Away with it, let it go. Are not the trees green, The earth as green? Does not the ...
The Man Against the Sky (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
Stanzas Written under an Oak in Windsor Forest (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
"HERE POPE FIRST SUNG!" O, hallow'd Tree ! Such is the boast thy bark displays; Thy branches, like thy Patron's ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
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, ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...