There is a Zone whose even Years (Emily Dickinson Poem)
There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt -- Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait ...
Poems about centuries (51 Poems)
The event was directly behind Him (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The event was directly behind Him Yet He did not guess Fitted itself to Himself like a Robe Relished His ...
Smiling back from Coronation (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Smiling back from Coronation May be Luxury -- On the Heads that started with us -- Being's Peasantry -- Recognizing ...
Of Bronze — and Blaze (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Of Bronze -- and Blaze -- The North -- Tonight -- So adequate -- it forms -- So preconcerted with ...
Knock with tremor — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Knock with tremor -- These are Caesars -- Should they be at Home Flee as if you trod unthinking On ...
Just lost, when I was saved! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Just lost, when I was saved! Just felt the world go by! Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, ...
If anybody’s friend be dead (Emily Dickinson Poems)
If anybody's friend be dead It's sharpest of the theme The thinking how they walked alive -- At such and ...
I’ve dropped my Brain — My Soul is numb — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I've dropped my Brain -- My Soul is numb -- The Veins that used to run Stop palsied -- 'tis ...
A Word dropped careless on a Page (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Word dropped careless on a Page May stimulate an eye When folded in perpetual seam The Wrinkled Maker lie ...
A precious — mouldering pleasure — ’tis (Emily Dickinson Poems)
A precious -- mouldering pleasure -- 'tis -- To meet an Antique Book -- In just the Dress his Century ...
‘Tis Seasons since the Dimpled War (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Tis Seasons since the Dimpled War In which we each were Conqueror And each of us were slain And Centuries ...
A long — long Sleep — A famous — Sleep — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A long -- long Sleep -- A famous -- Sleep -- That makes no show for Morn -- By Stretch ...
The Thrill came slowly like a Boom for (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Thrill came slowly like a Boom for Centuries delayed Its fitness growing like the Flood In sumptuous solitude -- ...
I measure every Grief I meet (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes -- I wonder if It weighs like Mine -- Or ...
If you were coming in the Fall, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, ...
After great pain, a formal feeling comes (Emily Dickinson Poem)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -- The stiff Heart questions was ...
Because I could not stop for Death (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. ...
By the Aurelian Wall (Bliss Carman Poem)
In Memory of John Keats By the Aurelian Wall, Where the long shadows of the centuries fall From Caius Cestius' ...
Poseidonians (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The Poseidonians forgot the Greek language after so many centuries of mingling with Tyrrhenians, Latins, and other foreigners. The only ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Heritage (Countee Cullen Poem)
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
Four Riddles (Lewis Carroll Poem)
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
Nothing grows except the grass. (Carlos Barbarito Poem)
Nothing grows except the grass. Nothing leaps into sight except some stone and what the stone contains and protects. Here, ...
On a Beautiful Landscape (William Lisle Bowles Poem)
Beautiful landscape! I could look on thee For hours,--unmindful of the storm and strife, And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life. ...
The Plantster’s Vision (John Betjeman Poems)
Cut down that timber! Bells, too many and strong, Pouring their music through the branches bare, From moon-white church towers ...
How’d You Like It? (Ellis Parker Butler Poems)
Well, then! How'd you like to bear the name of Butler As an honor badge eight centuries at least, And ...
Galatea Encore (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
As though the mercury's under its tongue, it won't talk. As though with the mercury in its sphincter, immobile, by ...
A Forest Hymn (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
Mummia (Rupert Brooke Poem)
As those of old drank mummia To fire their limbs of lead, Making dead kings from Africa Stand pandar to ...
To England (Richard Brautigan Poem)
There are no postage stamps that send letters back to England three centuries ago, no postage stamps that make letters ...