The Layers (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some ...
Poems about directed (25 Poems)
TABLE SONG. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[Composed for the merry party already mentioned, on the occasion of the departure for France of the hereditary prince, who ...
DEATH-LAMENT OF THE NOBLE WIFE OF ASAN AGA. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[From the Morlack.) WHAT is yonder white thing in the forest? Is it snow, or can it swans perchance be? ...
Before the Throne of Beauty XXVI (Khalil Gibran Poem)
One heavy day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city and ...
Be Fruitful (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In wherever we are found wherever we live where God has led us this is where to begin Be fruitful ...
Metal Doors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A singular sound, a permanency, masculine certainty, sudden heavy, final, unrelenting the sound of authority, no free will no choices ...
Vision of Cornelius (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A vision of an appointment, a call to connection reaching across faith, divisions, across cultures to seek out the one ...
Prayers for a Change in My Heart (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Over and over, I knelt, fell to my knees, gave myself to You, Lord tears pouring from my eyes, shaking ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
The Marriage of Edward Herbert Esquire, and Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
CUPID one day ask'd his Mother, When she meant that he shou'd Wed? You're too Young, my Boy, she said: ...
t of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Enter, as in the Temple of Jerusalem, ATHALIA, MATHAN, ABNER WHY, to our Wonder, in this Place is seen, ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Uncommon common sense (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The other day I listened to a man on the radio who made uncommon common sense, 'specially since it was ...
The Retired Cat (William Cowper Poem)
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
Fit the Sixth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
111. Address to Beelzebub (Robert Burns Poems)
LONG life, my Lord, an' health be yours, Unskaithed by hunger'd Highland boors; Lord grant me nae duddie, desperate beggar, ...
Clancy Of The Overflow (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him ...
CAPTAIN WHO VOYAGES NO MORE (Vlanes Poems)
Troubled slumbering of things, the curtain blown aside by the gush of the salty wind, the advent of the tide ...
The Battle of Waterloo (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Nyctivoe (extract) (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...