The Platypus (Oliver Herford Poems)
MY child, the Duck-billed PlatypusA sad example sets for us:From him we learn how IndecisionOf character provokes Derision.This vacillating Thing, ...
Poems about baffles (21 Poems)
The Voice Of The Void (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
I warn, like the one drop of rainOn your face, ere the storm;Or tremble in whispered refrainWith your blood, beating ...
Sicut In Principio (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
A pentecostal breath—The wind that baffles Death—Moves: and from sterile sandThe sea brings forth the Land,Out of whose wounded sideAll ...
The Moat House (Edith Nesbit Poems)
PART I IUNDER the shade of convent towers, Where fast and vigil mark the hours, From childhood ...
An Anthem Of Earth (Francis Thompson Poems)
Proemion.Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav'st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, ...
Blown Seed Of Song (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
I sat apart upon a hill, And piped and piped ...
Pashepaho’s Speech To The Young Men (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Pashepaho heard the young menTill their lofty words had ended,And in accents stern, thus answered:"For your presents, I am thankful.By ...
Off The Skidloe (Emma Alice Browne Poems)
With leagues of wasteful water ringed about,And wrapped in sheeted foam from base to peak,A sheer, stupendous monolith, wrought outBy ...
After-Life (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
O BOON and curse in one - this ceaseless needOf looking still behind us and before!Gift to the soul of ...
A Rhine-Land Drinking Song (Eugene Field Poems)
If our own life is the life of a flower (And that's what some sages are thinking),We should moisten ...
sonnet XXXII. Life And Death. 4. (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
IF at one door stands life to cheat our trust,And at another, death, to mock becauseWe thought life's promise good; ...
This World is not Conclusion (Emily Dickinson Poems)
501This World is not Conclusion.A species stands beyond-Invisible, as Music-But positive, as Sound-It beckons, and it baffles-Philosophy-don't know-And through a ...
VERSES Occasioned by a Young Lady’s asking the Author, What was a Cure for Love? (Thomas Godfrey Poems)
From me, my Dear, O seek not to receive What e'en deep-read Experience cannot give. We may, indeed, from the ...
A rhine-land drinking song (Eugene Field Poem)
If our own life is the life of a flower (And that's what some sages are thinking), We should moisten ...
The Psalter (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
Cassandra (Hilda Doolittle Poem)
O Hymen king. Hymen, O Hymen king, what bitter thing is this? what shaft, tearing my heart? what scar, what ...
Grief is a Mouse — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Grief is a Mouse -- And chooses Wainscot in the Breast For His Shy House -- And baffles quest -- ...
This World is not Conclusion. (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond -- Invisible, as Music -- But positive, as Sound -- It ...
On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture (William Cowper Poems)
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
Hymn 168 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The Divine Perfections. Jehovah reigns, his throne is high, His robes are light and majesty; His glory shines with beams ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...