The Story of Ung (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
Poems about doubted (30 Poems)
The Pro-Consuls (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The overfaithful sword returns the user His heart's desire at price of his heart's blood. The clamour of the arrogant ...
The Heritage (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Our Fathers in a wondrous age, Ere yet the Earth was small, Ensured to us a heritage, And doubted not ...
The Explorer (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
Middle-Age Enthusiasms (Thomas Hardy Poem)
To M. H. WE passed where flag and flower Signalled a jocund throng; We said: "Go to, the hour Is ...
Freedoms Plow (Langston Hughes Poem)
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
eight roundels (Rg Gregory Poem)
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
In this Season of Lent (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Turning toward Jerusalem going with the Christ with his disciples on the way to David's city On the road covered ...
Equipped for the Task (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The timid disciples, gathered in a room hiding in Jerusalem, in their hidden place the mysteries revealed, shared by the ...
Sinking in the Waters (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He stepped out in his faith walking toward the Lord Sinking in the waters at the mercy of the wind ...
We were the Disciples (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We were the disciples, who betrayed, who doubted, who were confused We were the disciples, who ran We were Peter, ...
Unnamed but Remembered (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A woman, unnamed but remembered for her act of love, of faith spend money, extravagantly lavished costly nard, oil on ...
Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost Poem)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I ...
Landscape At The End Of The Century (Stephen Dunn Poem)
The sky in the trees, the trees mixed up with what's left of heaven, nearby a patch of daffodils rooted ...
He strained my faith (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He strained my faith -- Did he find it supple? Shook my strong trust -- Did it then -- yield? ...
Preface to Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
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 ...
I SEE A WOMAN MAKING UP (Luis Benitez Poem)
I see a woman any woman making up and change first she is thinking of something else (because when a ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Epilogue (Robert Browning Poem)
At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where--by ...
Epilogue To Asolando (Robert Browning Poem)
At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where--by ...
112. A Dream (Robert Burns Poems)
GUID-MORNIN' to our Majesty! May Heaven augment your blisses On ev'ry new birth-day ye see, A humble poet wishes. My ...
The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost Poem)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I ...
Old King Cole (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole A wise old age anticipate, Desiring, with his pipe and bowl, No Khan's ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Green Fields (W. S. Merwin Poems)
By this part of the century few are left who believe in the animals for they are not there in ...
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 ...