The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Poems about dislike (21 Poems)
The Bed By The Window (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I chose the bed downstairs by the sea-window for a good death-bed When we built the house, it is ready ...
UPON LOVE:BY WAY OF QUESTION AND ANSWER (Robert Herrick Poem)
I bring ye love. QUES. What will love do? ANS. Like, and dislike ye. I bring ye love. QUES. What ...
The Lyon And The Gnat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately Pace, ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
The cruelty of P. L. Brown- (He had ten toes as good as mine) Was known to every one in ...
Dream Song 17: Muttered Henry:â?”Lord of matter, thus (John Berryman Poem)
Muttered Henry:â?"Lord of matter, thus: upon some more unquiet spirit knock, my madnesses have cease. All the quarter astonishes a ...
Dream Song 84: Op. posth. no. 7 (John Berryman Poem)
Plop, plop. The lobster toppled in the pot, fulfilling, dislike man, his destiny, glowing fire-red, succulent, and on the whole ...
The Breast (Anne Sexton Poems)
This is the key to it. This is the key to everything. Preciously. I am worse than the gamekeeper's children ...
Where Shall We Go? (Vernon Scannell Poems)
Waiting for her in the usual bar He finds she's late again. Impatience frets at him, But not the fearful, ...
Prothalamion (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did ...
Nature’s Touch (Robert William Service Poems)
In kindergarten classed Dislike they knew; And as the years went past It grew and grew; Until in maidenhood Each ...
Six Significant Landscapes (Wallace Stevens Poems)
I An old man sits In the shadow of a pine tree In China. He sees larkspur, Blue and white, ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face (Jack Prelutsky Poems)
Be glad your nose is on your face, not pasted on some other place, for if it were where it ...
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (Ezra Pound Poems)
After Li Po While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played at the front gate, pulling ...
Mirror (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
Poetry (Marianne Moore Poems)
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...