The Highlands (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
HILLS that were born of ages, Heaving slowly from the deep, Are shaking down their tresses, Silver-threaded from the steep; ...
Poems about dwellers (21 Poems)
Quatrains (Edith Matilda Thomas Poems)
"The Soul In The BodyWHAT if the Soul her real life elsewhere holds, Her faint reflex Time's darkling stream enfolds, ...
My Tenants (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
I never had a title-deed To my estate. But little heed Eyes give to me, when I walk by My ...
To a Fish (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poem)
You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced, Dreary-mouthed, gaping wretches of the sea, Gulping salt-water everlastingly, Cold-blooded, though with red your blood be ...
Architectural Masks (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I There is a house with ivied walls, And mullioned windows worn and old, And the long dwellers in those ...
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 ...
Frogmouth biker (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The biker was a menace on the farm, a madman bent on speed, intent on leaving all for dead (it ...
On Love (Bliss Carman Poem)
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
Love and Folly (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
Love's worshippers alone can know The thousand mysteries that are his; His blazing torch, his twanging bow, His blooming age ...
A Spirit Passed Before Me (Lord Byron Poem)
From Job A spirit passed before me: I beheld The face of immortality unveiled- Deep sleep came down on every ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Song of the Broad-Axe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
1861. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AARM'D year! year of the struggle! No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! Not you as ...
The Ideal And The Actual Life (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Forever fair, forever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice-- Moons ...
You Gote-heard Gods (Sir Philip Sidney Poems)
Strephon. You Gote-heard Gods, that loue the grassie mountaines, You Nimphes that haunt the springs in pleasant vallies, You Satyrs ...
Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy (William Shakespeare Poems)
Were't aught to me I bore the canopy, With my extern the outward honouring, Or laid great bases for eternity, ...
Sonnet CXXV (William Shakespeare Poems)
Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy, With my extern the outward honouring, Or laid great bases for ...
The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain, to burst our bonds and become estranged from ...
The Sea Spirit (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
I smile o'er the wrinkled blue Lo! the sea is fair, Smooth as the flow of a maiden's hair; And ...
The Night-Fire (Claude McKay Poems)
No engines shrieking rescue storm the night, And hose and hydrant cannot here avail; The flames laugh high and fling ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...