Leo (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I made a journey o'er the sea,I bade my faithful dog good-bye,I knew that he would grieve for me,But did ...
Poems about disillusion (21 Poems)
In The Half-Way House (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IAt twenty we fancied the blest Middle Ages A spirited cross of romantic and grand,All templars and minstrels and ladies and ...
Musings (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
INSPIRATION. All who have toiled for Art, who've won or lost, Sat equal priests at her high Pentecost; Only the chrism and sacrament ...
The Loving Cup. On A Coming Of Age At Merriewold (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Within the silver bowl beholdThe golden vintage of all friendly cheer,Fresh from the wine-press of our Merriewold,And not a drop ...
Paradiso (Kenneth Koch Poems)
There is no way not to be excitedWhen what you have been disillusioned by raises its headFrom its arms and ...
Brook Farm (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
Down the long road, bent and brown, Youth, that dearly loves a vision, Ventures to the gate Elysian,As a pilgrim from the ...
Omar Dead (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
FROM the squat tavern laughing to the eastHe turned; within the murmuring babbleceas'd;And red wine split on scattered roses thereExhaled ...
Juvenilia, An OdeTo Natural Beauty (Alan Seeger Poems)
There is a power whose inspiration fills Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought, Like airy dew ere any drop distils, ...
March of Memories (C J Dennis Poems)
Left, right - left, right . . . We march today for memories (the grizzled Digger said)Memories of lost dreams ...
The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)
He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...
In The Carlyle House, Chelsea (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Up the steep stair they clatter to each room, In whispered merriment they pierce the gloom Of Time's sweet mercy, ...
The Wisdom of Folly (Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler Poems)
The cynics say that every roseIs guarded by a thorn that growsTo spoil our posies:But I no pleasure therefore lack;I ...
The Writer’s Hand (David Gascoyne Poems)
What is your want, perpetual invalidWhose fist is always beating on my breast'sBone wall, incurable dictator of my houseAnd breaker ...
Sonnet II (Alan Seeger Poems)
Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways, Between the rivers and the illumined sky Whose fervid depths reverberate ...
Had You Been Old (Elizabeth Hollister Frost Poems)
Had you been old Imight be reconciledTo see you gatheredto the silent wild.Were your days darkened,weary, shattered, told.Had life with ...
Crepuscule du Matin (Amy Lowell Poem)
All night I wrestled with a memory Which knocked insurgent at the gates of thought. The crumbled wreck of years ...
Poetry (Charles Bukowski Poems)
it takes a lot of desperation dissatisfaction and disillusion to write a few good poems. it's not for everybody either ...
The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)
He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...
Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty (Alan Seeger Poems)
There is a power whose inspiration fills Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought, Like airy dew ere any drop distils, ...
Sonnet II (Alan Seeger Poems)
Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways, Between the rivers and the illumined sky Whose fervid depths reverberate ...
Rahel to Varnhagen (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...