The Dream Of The World Without Death (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
NOW, sitting by her side, worn out with weeping,Behold, I fell to sleep, and had a vision,Wherein I heard a ...
Poems about blankness (21 Poems)
The Life Of Lincoln West (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Ugliest little boythat everyone ever saw.That is what everyone said.Even to his mother it was apparent-when the blue-aproned nurse came ...
An Explanation of America: A Love of Death (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Imagine a child from Virginia or New HampshireAlone on the prairie eighty years agoOr more, one afternoon-the shaggy peltOf grasses, ...
The Two Rabbins (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE Rabbi Nathan two-score years and tenWalked blameless through the evil world, and then,Just as the almond blossomed in his ...
For Ever (Henry Kendall Poems)
OUT of the body for ever, Wearily sobbing, "Oh, whither?"A Soul that hath wasted its chances Floats on the limitless ether.Lost in ...
My Dream (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In my dream, methought I trod,Yesternight, a mountain road;Narrow as Al Sirat's span,High as eagle's flight, it ran.Overhead, a roof ...
The Hospital Window (James Dickey Poems)
I have just come down from my father.Higher and higher he liesAbove me in a blue lightShed by a tinted ...
The Pressed Gentian (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The time of gifts has come again,And, on my northern window-pane,Outlined against the day's brief light,A Christmas token hangs in ...
Hope (James Logie Robertson Poems)
O bright-eyed Hope, that still look'st back on me, And beckon'st with thy hand, seeming to say- "Leave caring for these baubles ...
The Manuscript of Saint Alexius (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
There came a child into the solemn hall where great Pope Innocent sat throned and heard angry disputings on Free-Will ...
The Lady Of La Garaye – Part III (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
NEVER again! When first that sentence fell From lips so loth the bitter truth to tell, Death seemed the balance ...
Turkey-Cock (D H Lawrence Poems)
YOU ruffled black blossom,You glossy dark wind.Your sort of gorgeousness,Dark and lustrousAnd skinny repulsiveAnd poppy-glossy,Is the gorgeousness that evokes my ...
Poems, Chiefly Scientific (Eli Siegel Poems)
1. To Settle As Chalk Blankness and thickness Took a walk; And while walking decided To settle as chalk. 2. ...
MAUBERLEY (Ezra Pound Poems)
ITurned from the 'eau-fortePar Jaquemart'To the strait headOf Messalina:'His true PenelopeWas Flaubert,'And his toolThe engraver's.Firmness,Not the full smile,His art, but ...
Last Words To A Dumb Friend (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Pet was never mourned as you, Purrer of the spotless hue, Plumy tail, and wistful gaze While you humoured our ...
The Going (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, ...
Snow Day (Billy Collins Poem)
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a ...
Cleansings (Michael Burch Poem)
Walk here among the walking scepters. Learn inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave to bone this tightly if their hearts ...
An Autograph (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I write my name as one, On sands by waves o'errun Or winter's frosted pane, Traces a record vain. Oblivion's ...
Horatio (Robert William Service Poems)
His portrait hung upon the wall. Oh how at us he used to stare. Each Sunday when I made my ...
The End of the Day (Amy Levy Poems)
To B. T. Dead-tired, dog-tired, as the vivid day Fails and slackens and fades away.-- The sky that was so ...