bettered Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Festus – VI (Philip James Bailey Poems)

Our nextAdventure seems to promise fair, for be thereOne scene, in life whence evil may be ruledAbsent, 'tis sure pure ...

Biography (John Masefield Poems)

When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts, And long before this ...

Honours — Part II. (Jean Ingelow Poems)

As one who, journeying, checks the rein in haste Because a chasm doth yawn across his wayToo wide for leaping, and ...

An Ode For The Fourth Of July (James Russell Lowell Poems)

Entranced I saw a vision in the cloudThat loitered dreaming in yon sunset sky,Full of fair shapes, half creatures of ...

Elfindale (James Avis Bartley Poems)

PART FIRST.Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale;Where all the flowers are fair, and frail(Like her fair self,) a slender fairy,And like ...

A Walk By Moonlight (Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Poems)

Last night — it was a lovely night, And I was very blest — Shall it not be for Memory A happy spot ...

The Holy Lady (James Avis Bartley Poems)

Oh, Heaven hath given to earth some souls, Of rarest loveliness,Whose being's constant current rolls, The wretched still to bless.Well wishing Heaven ...

Koheleth (Louis Untermeyer Poems)

I waited and worked To win myself leisure,Till loneliness irked And I turned to raw pleasure.I drank and I gamed, I feasted and ...

The Spagnoletto. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)

Act III.SCENE I. The studio of the Spagnoletto. RIBERA before his canvas. LUCA in attendance.RIBERA (laying aside his brush).So! I ...

The Kalevala – Rune XXVII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)

THE UNWELCOME GUEST.I have brought young Kaukomieli,Brought the Islander and hero,Also known as Lemminkainen,Through the jaws of death and ruin,Through ...

Half An Hour Before Supper (Francis Bret Harte Poems)

So she's here, your unknown Dulcinea, the lady you met on the train,And you really believe she would know you ...

In The House Of Idiedaily (Bliss William Carman Poems)

OH, but life went gaily, gaily,In the house of Idiedaily!There were always throats to singDown the river-banks with spring,When the ...

From Albert to Bapaume (Alec Waugh Poems)

Lonely and bare and desolate,Stretches of muddy filtered green,A silence half articulateOf all that those dumb eyes have seen.A bettered ...

After An Epigram Of Clement Marot (Alan Seeger Poems)

The lad I was I longer now Nor am nor shall be evermore. Spring's lovely blossoms from my brow Have ...

The Temporary The All (Thomas Hardy Poem)

CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellowly, and ...

Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)

"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...

After an Epigram of Clement Marot (Alan Seeger Poems)