The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
Poems about befits (21 Poems)
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
The World — stands — solemner — to me (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The World -- stands -- solemner -- to me -- Since I was wed -- to Him -- A modesty ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar (Robert Browning Poem)
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
Mesmerism (Robert Browning Poem)
I. All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
Obermann Once More (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
The Princess (prologue) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun Up to the people: ...
Ode Written On The First Of January (Robert Southey Poems)
Come melancholy Moralizer--come! Gather with me the dark and wintry wreath; With me engarland now The SEPULCHRE OF TIME! Come ...
Sonnet XLI (William Shakespeare Poems)
Those petty wrongs that liberty commits, When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full ...
The Shepherd’s Dog (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
I. A Shepherd's Dog there was; and he Was faithful to his master's will, For well he lov'd his company, ...
The Widow’s Home (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Close on the margin of a brawling brook That bathes the low dell's bosom, stands a Cot; O'ershadow'd by broad ...
Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits (William Shakespeare Poems)
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full ...
Theophilus (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
By what serene malevolence of names Had you the gift of yours, Theophilus? Not even a smeared young Cyclops at ...
The World (Katherine Philips Poems)
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends, That we should grieve for their too early ends: He that surveys ...
Child of Europe (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
1 We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day. Who in May admire trees flowering Are better than those ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
From ‘Arcades’ (John Milton Poems)
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...