Song (Amy Lowell Poem)
Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run; Holding up A scent-brimmed ...
Poems about endeavor (21 Poems)
Summer (Amy Lowell Poem)
Some men there are who find in nature all Their inspiration, hers the sympathy Which spurs them on to any ...
Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
The Day is Done (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From ...
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
In A Eweleaze Near Weatherbury (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THE years have gathered grayly Since I danced upon this leaze With one who kindled gayly Love's fitful ecstasies! But ...
Give All To Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse. ...
You’ll know Her — by Her Foot — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
You'll know Her -- by Her Foot -- The smallest Gamboge Hand With Fingers -- where the Toes should be ...
Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead Came the Darker Way -- Carriages -- Be Sure -- and Guests -- ...
Don’t put up my Thread and Needle — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
Don't put up my Thread and Needle -- I'll begin to Sew When the Birds begin to whistle -- Better ...
A Prison gets to be a friend — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Prison gets to be a friend -- Between its Ponderous face And Ours -- a Kinsmanship express -- And ...
Fit the Fifth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Falconer of God (William Rose Benet Poem)
I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying. I said, "Wait on, wait on, while I ride ...
To A Lady (Lord Byron Poem)
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token, These follies had not, then, ...
Porphyria’s Lover (Robert Browning Poems)
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And ...
An Island (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Jinny the Just (Matthew Prior Poems)
Releas'd from the noise of the butcher and baker Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her, And ...
Tin Wedding Whistle (Ogden Nash Poems)
Though you know it anyhow Listen to me, darling, now, Proving what I need not prove How I know I ...
The Bells (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
I Hear the sledges with the bells- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, ...
On the Bay (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
When the salt wave laps on the long, dim shore, And frets the reef with its windy sallies, And the ...
Success (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain, The pathos of the stupid, stumbling throng. These I ignore to-day and ...