Lovesong (Ted Hughes Poem)
He loved her and she loved him His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He ...
Poems about attempts (24 Poems)
ORIGINAL PREFACE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
TO THE DISTANT ONE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
AND have I lost thee evermore? Hast thou, oh fair one, from me flown? Still in mine ear sounds, as ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
Justified Freely, By His Grace (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not by our works our attempts at righteousness justified freely, by His grace God's love redeeming before we are convicted ...
Acrostics (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Alphabetic writing Coming alive on the page Reading the meaning in the letters Overcoming the mundane language Seeing the possibilities ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
To The Painter Of An Ill-drawn Picture of Cleone (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Sooner I'd praise a Cloud which Light beguiles, Than thy rash Hand which robs this Face of Smiles; And does ...
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 ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Melancholetta (Lewis Carroll Poem)
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
Executive (John Betjeman Poem)
I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
To A Lady (Lord Byron Poem)
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token, These follies had not, then, ...
The Lay of a Golden Goose (Louisa May Alcott Poem)
Long ago in a poultry yard One dull November morn, Beneath a motherly soft wing A little goose was born. ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Comete (Les Murray Poems)
Uphill in Melbourne on a beautiful day a woman is walking ahead of her hair. Like teak oiled soft to ...
The Death of the Queen (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! our noble and generous Queen Victoria is dead, And I hope her soul to Heaven has fled, To sing ...
The Wreck of the Abercrombie Robinson (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with ...
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 Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...