Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
Poems about eminence (29 Poems)
On Being Human (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
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 ...
The Bridge of Sighs (Thomas Hood Poem)
One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; ...
These are the Nights that Beetles love — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
These are the Nights that Beetles love -- From Eminence remote Drives ponderous perpendicular His figure intimate The terror of ...
Such are the inlets of the mind — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Such are the inlets of the mind -- His outlets -- would you see Ascend with me the eminence Of ...
What a weekend (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
What a weekend, it certainly defied all the pundits' trends, the 'World Game' French were trashed by Versace and petulance, ...
The Price of Fame (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Do I really love you? So let me guess, you'll think I'm easy prey if I say, okay I do ...
Simple pleasures that you bring (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Do you mind if I write a few lines for you tonight? I'm fuelled for sure, perhaps a bit ebullient, ...
Fountain of your rise (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Michelle, the thought of you confused or under siege bereaves us; you, the cheerful heart who waged a silent war ...
A final journeying (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Steve is gone, I hardly can believe the man wont cry again, I cannot credit that his energy wont bloom ...
The Task: Book I, The Sofa (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
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 ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Dream Song 90: Op. posth. no. 13 (John Berryman Poem)
In the night-reaches dreamed he of better graces, of liberations, and beloved faces, such as now ere dawn he sings. ...
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
Fairy-Land (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Dim vales- and shadowy floods- And cloudy-looking woods, Whose forms we can't discover For the tears that drip all over! ...
Al Aaraaf (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
Beautiful Crief (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, Take my advice, and visit the ancient town ...
The Battle of Culloden (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1746, and in April the 14th day, That Prince Charles Stuart and his army marched ...
The Battle of Omdurman (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me And King in praise of the gallant British Armie, That behaved ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
The Pangolin (Marianne Moore Poems)
Another armored animal--scale lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central tail-row! This near artichoke with head ...