The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Poems about dreaded (31 Poems)
The Warden of the Cinque Ports (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
A mist was driving down the British Channel, The day was just begun, And through the window-panes, on floor and ...
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 ...
Birth-Dues (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely contemptible, the dangled Carrot the ass follows to market or ...
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 ...
I. THE PARIAH’S PRAYER (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
DREADED Brama, lord of might! All proceed from thee alone; Thou art he who judgeth right! Dost thou none but ...
THE PUPIL IN MAGIC. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I AM now,--what joy to hear it!-- Of the old magician rid; And henceforth shall ev'ry spirit Do whate'er by ...
THE DANCE OF DEATH. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night, On the tombs that lie scatter'd below: The moon fills ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
Freedom XIV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
And an orator said, "Speak to us of Freedom." And he answered: At the city gate and by your fireside ...
The duel (Eugene Field Poem)
The gingham dog and the calico cat Side by side on the table sat; 'T was half-past twelve, and (what ...
The Hermit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Snow (Robert Frost Poem)
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
‘Tis so appalling — it exhilarates (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Tis so appalling -- it exhilarates -- So over Horror, it half Captivates -- The Soul stares after it, secure ...
I dreaded that first Robin, so, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I dreaded that first Robin, so, But He is mastered, now, I'm accustomed to Him grown, He hurts a little, ...
Courage is a motherless lamb (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For a small child crossing the pen alone was a courageous feat, occasionally, with a maniacal bleat, the wether would ...
The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
On The Loss Of The Royal George (William Cowper Poem)
Written when the news arrived. Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave ...
THE ALIEN THOUDEA (Bhaskar Roy Barman Poem)
Bhaskar Roy Barman He knew for sure he was going to succumb to the eminence grise of an alien thoudea ...
The Desk, for Jeremy (Michael Burch Poem)
There is a child I used to know who sat, perhaps, at this same desk where you sit now, and ...
Past Days (Anne Bronte Poem)
'Tis strange to think, there was a time When mirth was not an empty name, When laughter really cheered the ...
Water (Wendell Berry Poem)
I was born in a drouth year. That summer my mother waited in the house, enclosed in the sun and ...
Safety-Clutch (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Once I seen a human ruin In a elevator-well. And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had ...
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 Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
95. Address to the Unco Guid (Robert Burns Poems)
O YE wha are sae guid yoursel', Sae pious and sae holy, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell ...
351. Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Robert Burns Poems)
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...