Exultation (Emma Lazarus Poems)
BEHOLD, I walked abroad at early morning,The fields of June were bathed in dew and lustre,The hills were clad with ...
Poems about browsing (21 Poems)
L’envoi from Balladeadro (George Gordon McCrae Poems)
See where the allied armies camped,Where plumed and painted dancers tramped—'Tis still the same, the same wild scene,As though the ...
Faute De Mieux (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN the corn is green and the poppies red And the fields are crimson with love-lies-bleeding, When the ...
The Cowbells (Charles Frederic Robinson Poems)
Old Winter's joys are many; keen and bracing is his air,Tracing forms of grace and beauty on the window-pane;Yet when ...
Early Seasons (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
UNUSUALLY alert, young SpringIs stretching wide her purple wing,To renovate the Earth;Already o'er our wint'ry IsleShe sheds her joy-diffusing smile,And ...
Euryalus (Edith Wharton Poems)
UPWARD we went by fields of asphodel,Leaving Ortygia's moat-bound walls below;By orchards, where the wind-flowers' drifted snowLay lightly heaped upon ...
Questions (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
What is the secret of your life, browsing ox, Ox the sweet grass eating? Who strung the mighty sinews in ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Earth’s Immortalities (Robert Browning Poems)
FAME. See, as the prettiest graves will do in time, Our poet's wants the freshness of its prime; Spite of ...
Shepherd And Goatherd (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Shepherd. That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year. I wished before it ceased. Goatherd. Nor bird nor beast ...
How We Are (Lisa Zaran Poems)
Pale scrapings of people with lipstick ringed glasses and cigarettes burning, and laughter trickling up and down their knotty throats. ...
Custer (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
Wuthering Heights (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The horizons ring me like faggots, Tilted and disparate, and always unstable. Touched by a match, they might warm me, ...
PG Wooster, Just as he Useter (Ogden Nash Poems)
Bound to your bookseller, leap to your library, Deluge your dealer with bakshish and bribary, Lean on the counter and ...
Edinburgh (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Beautiful city of Edinburgh! Where the tourist can drown his sorrow By viewing your monuments and statues fine During the ...
The Bonnie Sidlaw Hills (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Bonnie Clara, will you go to the bonnie Sidlaw hills And pu' the blooming heather, and drink from their rills? ...
Phoebus with Admetus (George Meredith Poems)
WHEN by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, Mindful were the ploughmen of who ...
Beautiful Balmoral (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye lovers of the picturesque, away and see Beautiful Balmoral, near by the River Dee; There ye will see the ...
The Poet And His Book (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Down, you mongrel, Death! Back into your kennel! I have stolen breath In a stalk of fennel! You shall scratch ...
Late Light (Philip Levine Poems)
Rain filled the streets once a year, rising almost to door and window sills, battering walls and roofs until it ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...