Fantasia (Duncan Campbell Scott Poems)
Here in Samarcand they offer emeralds,Pure as frozen drops of sea-water,Rubies, pale as dew-ponds stained with slaughter,Where the fairies fought ...
Poems about emeralds (21 Poems)
Colour (Dorothea Mackellar Poems)
The lovely things that I have watched unthinking,Unknowing, day by day,That their soft dyes have steeped my soul in colourThat ...
White Currants (Amy Lowell Poems)
Shall I give you white currants? I do not know why, but I have a sudden fancy for this fruit. ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
LOVE AS A LANDSCAPE PAINTER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ON a rocky peak once sat I early, Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving; Stretch'd out like a pall ...
NEXT YEAR’S SPRING. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like ...
Spring in the South (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Now in the oak the sap of life is welling, Tho' to the bough the rusty leafage clings; Now on ...
The Angle of a Landscape (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Angle of a Landscape -- That every time I wake -- Between my Curtain and the Wall Upon an ...
Waiting For The Barbarians (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
The Jewel (James Wright Poems)
There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobodyt is going to touch: A cloister, a silence ...
Never Again The Same (Edward Taylor Poems)
Speaking of sunsets, last night's was shocking. I mean, sunsets aren't supposed to frighten you, are they? Well, this one ...
Pelleas And Ettarre (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
Never Again The Same (James Tate Poems)
Speaking of sunsets, last night's was shocking. I mean, sunsets aren't supposed to frighten you, are they? Well, this one ...
Jobson Of The Star (Robert William Service Poems)
Within a pub that's off the Strand and handy to the bar, With pipe in mouth and mug in hand ...
THE LOBSTER (Carl Rakosi Poems)
Eastern Sea, 100 fathoms, green sand, pebbles, broken shells. Off Suno Saki, 60 fathoms, gray sand, pebbles, bubbles rising. Plasma-bearer ...
Oh, the Shamrock (Thomas Moore Poems)
Through Erin's Isle To sport awhile As Love and Valour wander'd, With Wit, the sprite, Whose quiver bright A thousand ...
Cargoes (John Masefield Poems)
QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes ...
Niagara (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I Within the town of Buffalo Are prosy men with leaden eyes. Like ants they worry to and fro, (Important ...