Divina Commedia (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
Poems about dante (31 Poems)
The Great Explosion (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The universe expands and contracts like a great heart. It is expanding, the farthest nebulae Rush with the speed of ...
Be Angry At The Sun (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has ...
A Hill (Anthony Hecht Poem)
In Italy, where this sort of thing can occur, I had a vision once - though you understand It was ...
LINES ON SEEING SCHILLER’S SKULL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house ...
Machines (Michael Donaghy Poem)
Dearest, note how these two are alike: This harpsicord pavane by Purcell And the racer's twelve-speed bike. The machinery of ...
Robert Browning (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
How blind the toil that burrows like the mole, In winding graveyard pathways underground, For Browning's lineage! What if men ...
Milton (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
A precious — mouldering pleasure — ’tis (Emily Dickinson Poems)
A precious -- mouldering pleasure -- 'tis -- To meet an Antique Book -- In just the Dress his Century ...
Last Poem of my 45th Year (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I thought of how a whale's white ribs could choke the sky's blue neck, massive vertebrae half-buried in sand, and ...
The Friar’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
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 ...
Reason (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
... Finally, what is Reason ? You have often asked me ; and this is my answer :-- Whene'er the ...
Dinner at the Who’s Who (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poems)
amidst swirling wine and flickers of silver guests quote Dante, Brecht, Kant and each other. I wait in the hall ...
Love Incarnate (Frank Bidart Poem)
(Dante, Vita Nuova) To all those driven berserk or humanized by love this is offered, for I need help deciphering ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Old Pictures In Florence (Robert Browning Poem)
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
Up At A Villa- Down In The City (Robert Browning Poem)
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
Epilogue (Richard Aldington Poem)
Che son contenti nel fuoco We are of those that Dante saw Glad, for love's sake, among the flames of ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
D.G. Rossetti (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Buried all of his libretti, Thought the matter over - then Went and dug them up again. ...
Gustav Richter (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
After a long day of work in my hot-houses Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side ...
Dire Cure (William Matthews Poems)
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...
To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs (John Milton Poems)
Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, ...
Judson Stoddard (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
On a mountain top above the clouds That streamed like a sea below me I said that peak is the ...
Sonnet 13 (John Milton Poems)
XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires. Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song First taught our English Musick ...
The Crystal (Sidney Lanier Poems)
At midnight, death's and truth's unlocking time, When far within the spirit's hearing rolls The great soft rumble of the ...
To Lady Jane (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Romance was always young. You come today Just eight years old With marvellous dark hair. Younger than Dante found you ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...
Ode To The Johns Hopkins University (Sidney Lanier Poems)
How tall among her sisters, and how fair, -- How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair As dawn, 'mid wrinkled ...