The Disappointment (Ann Taylor Poems)
IN tears to her mother poor Harriet came, Let us listen to hear what she says:"O see, dear mamma, it ...
Poems about disappointment (21 Poems)
Hope (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
DELUSIVE Hope, thou flattering fairy,I will not thy soft tales believe;Fill not my mind with dreams so airy,Of thee I ...
Anticipation (George Frederick Cameron Poems)
Anticipation is the oil that feedsThe flame of life. It is the Siren fairThat sings at twilight in the hollow ...
From wealth, from honours, and from courts remov’d (Christopher Anstey Poems)
From wealth, from honours, and from courts remov'd, I've kept the silent path my genius lov'd, And pitied those whom ...
Apology (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Eleanor Rogers Cox) For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races ...
The Bugler’s First Communion (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
A buglar boy from barrack (it is over the hill There)-boy bugler, born, he tells me, of Irish Mother to ...
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum: verumtamen justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? &c. Thou art ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture (William Cowper Poems)
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
What Is Life? (John Clare Poem)
And what is Life? An hour-glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated ...
Self Communion (Anne Bronte Poem)
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Frances (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
242. The Poet’s Progress (Robert Burns Poem)
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...
Before you knew you owned it (Alice Walker Poems)
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out ...
The Disappointment (Jane Taylor Poems)
In tears to her mother poor Harriet came, Let us listen to hear what she says: "O see, dear mamma, ...
Liebestod (Alan Seeger Poems)
I who, conceived beneath another star, Had been a prince and played with life, instead Have been its slave, an ...
Botany Bay Eclogues 05 – Frederic (Robert Southey Poems)
(Time Night. Scene the woods.) Where shall I turn me? whither shall I bend My weary way? thus worn with ...
July 12 (David Lehman Poems)
Wisteria, hysteria is as obvious a rhyme as Viagra and Niagara there must be a reason honeymooners traditionally went to ...
Lose/Win (Natasha Josefowitz Poem)
I have known the pain of failure frustration disappointment defeat Because I have taken a chance on winning succeeding achieving ...