The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Poems about boar (22 Poems)
The Law of the Jungle (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(From The Jungle Book) Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the ...
The Gipsy Trail (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The white moth to the closing bine, The bee to the opened clover, And the gipsy blood to the gipsy ...
Certain Maxims Of Hafiz (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I. If It be pleasant to look on, stalled in the packed serai, Does not the Young Man try Its ...
Beast and Man in India (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Written for John Lockwood Kipling's They killed a Child to please the Gods In Earth's young penitence, And I have ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Endymion: Book I (John Keats Poem)
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Unhappy about some far off things That are not my affair, wandering Along the coast and up the lean ridges, ...
The Curse Upon Edward (Thomas Gray Poem)
WEAVE the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters ...
The Bard (Thomas Gray Poem)
Pindaric Ode "Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait! Tho' fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock ...
To Juan at the Winter Solstice (Robert Graves Poem)
There is one story and one story only That will prove worth your telling, Whether as learned bard or gifted ...
Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
The Vain King (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
The Road to Roundabout (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Some say that Guy of Warwick The man that killed the Cow, And brake the mighty Boar alive Beyond the ...
The Death of Nicou (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
A Dialogue between Old England and New (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
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 ...
254. Caledonia: A Ballad (Robert Burns Poems)
THERE was once a day, but old Time wasythen young, That brave Caledonia, the chief of her line, From some ...
Sow (Sylvia Plath Poems)
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...
Psalm 80 (John Milton Poems)
Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keep Give ear in time of need, Who leadest like a flock of sheep Thy ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...