The Iliad: Book 1 (Homer Poems)
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that broughtcountless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul ...
Poems about augurs (15 Poems)
Essay on Psychiatrists (Robert Pinsky Poems)
I. InvocationIt's crazy to think one could describe them-Calling on reason, fantasy, memory, eves and ears-As though they were all ...
Prevailing Winds (Lee Anderson2 Poems)
IThe bland many-eyed wallsof skyscrapers and the modestin-between brownstone housesshall not bruise the thrust of his rapier spiritrather the artist ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Flood – Fountain) (Henry Baker Poems)
Flood.See Deluge.-- Eridanus supreme of FloodsRush'd thro' the Forests, tore the lofty Woods,And rolling onward with a sweepy Sway,Bore Houses, ...
Belshazzar’s Feast (Joanna Baillie Poems)
'TWAS night in Babylon,--yet many a beamOf lamps, far glittering from her domes on high,Shone, brightly mingling in Euphrates' stream,With ...
The Origin Of Didactic Poetry (James Russell Lowell Poems)
When wise Minerva still was young And just the least romantic,Soon after from Jove's head she flung That preternatural antic,'Tis said, to ...
Numa Pompilius (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
O well is thee! King Numa,Within thy secret cave,Where thy bones are ever moistenedBy sad Egeria's wave;None now have power ...
The Trial Of The Gods (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
NEVER nobler was the Senate,Never grander the debate:Rome's old gods are on their trialBy the judges of the state!Torn by ...
Orient Ode (Francis Thompson Poems)
Lo, in the sanctuaried East,Day, a dedicated priestIn all his robes pontifical exprest,Lifteth slowly, lifteth sweetly,From out its Orient tabernacle ...
Sonnet LXXXVIII: Hero’s Lamp. (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
That lamp thou fill'st in Eros' name to-night,O Hero, shall the Sestian augurs takeTo-morrow, and for drowned Leander's sakeTo Anteros ...
The Quiet Eye (Eliza Cook Poem)
THE ORB I like is not the one That dazzles with its lightning gleam; That dares to look upon the ...
Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul (William Shakespeare Poems)
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come Can yet the ...
Sonnet CVII (William Shakespeare Poems)
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the ...
Sonnet CVII: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul (William Shakespeare Poems)
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the ...
The Unforgiven (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
When he, who is the unforgiven, Beheld her first, he found her fair: No promise ever dreamt in heaven Could ...