The Little Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold.Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold.To this the god of love ...
Poems about elegantly (20 Poems)
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;Yet, why suppose the sex my ...
Calidore: A Fragment (John Keats Poems)
Young Calidore is paddling o'er the lake;His healthful spirit eager and awakeTo feel the beauty of a silent eve,Which seem'd ...
To Mrs. Ward. By The Same. (Mary Barber Poems)
O thou, my beauteous, ever tender Friend,Thou, on whom all my worldly Joys depend,Accept these Numbers; and with Pleasure hearUnstudy'd ...
The River Scamander (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale;Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail;Men, gods, and all, his ...
To Charles Cowden Clarke (John Keats Poems)
Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,And with proud breast his own white shadow crowning;He slants his neck beneath ...
The Ode of Tarafah (Tarafah ibn al Abd Poems)
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes,holding aloof, with the ...
The Next Poem (Dana Gioia Poems)
How much better it seems nowthan when it is finally done-the unforgettable first line,the cunning way the stanzas run.The rhymes ...
Coupling (David Ignatow Poems)
Wherever he looks, standing still in the city,are people born of coupling, walking in gray suitsand ties, in long dresses ...
Pale Complexions (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
VAUNT not, thou blooming sweet, love-tinted Rose,O'er whose rich beauties each wild Zephyr blows,Thy charms unequall'd, or unrivall'd power;Though Joy ...
On Reading Verses by the Hon. Julia Curzon, on Hare Hunting. — Dec. 1792. (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
Through half her teens, e'en from her birth,All humour, comedy and mirth,Of fun and whim the very soul,While true good-nature ...
Haiku – haiku – 1 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Elegantly, five sophisticated seven precisely, formed January 18, 2010 (Raymond A. Foss)
The River Scamander (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican (John Betjeman Poem)
Isn't she lovely, "the Mistress"? With her wide-apart grey-green eyes, The droop of her lips and, when she smiles, Her ...
On My Wife’s Birth-Day (Christopher Smart Poems)
'Tis Nancy's birth-day--raise your strains, Ye nymphs of the Parnassian plains, And sing with more than usual glee To Nancy, ...
Sonnet XIII: Bring, Brick to Deck My Brow (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Bring, bring to deck my brow, ye Sylvan girls, A roseate wreath; nor for my waving hair The costly band ...
The Black Watch Memorial (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye Sons of Mars, it gives me great content To think there has been erected a handsome monument In memory ...