A proper trewe idyll of camelot (Eugene Field Poem)
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a ...
Poems about entertain (34 Poems)
Advice To An Old Man of Sixty Three About To Marry a Girle of Sixteen (Thomas Flatman Poem)
Now fie upon him! what is Man, Whose life at best is but a span? When to an inch it ...
The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
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 ...
Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
A Hundred Collars (Robert Frost Poem)
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books (Robert Frost Poems)
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people ...
Threnody (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Initial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Sonnet LIX: As Love and I (Michael Drayton Poem)
As Love and I, late harbor'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain: "In Love there is no ...
Sonnet IV: Bright Star of Beauty (Michael Drayton Poem)
Bright star of beauty, on whose eyelids sit A thousand nymph-like and enamour'd Graces, The Goddesses of Memory and Wit, ...
To the Reader of These Sonnets (Michael Drayton Poem)
Into these Loves who but for Passion looks, At this first sight here let him lay them by And seek ...
Television (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
“Mike Teavee…” (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
To own the Art within the Soul (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To own the Art within the Soul The Soul to entertain With Silence as a Company And Festival maintain Is ...
The Heaven vests for Each (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Heaven vests for Each In that small Deity It craved the grace to worship Some bashful Summer's Day -- ...
The duties of the Wind are few, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The duties of the Wind are few, To cast the ships, at Sea, Establish March, the Floods escort, And usher ...
So the Eyes accost — and sunder (Emily Dickinson Poem)
So the Eyes accost -- and sunder In an Audience -- Stamped -- occasionally -- forever -- So may Countenance ...
Of Bronze — and Blaze (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Of Bronze -- and Blaze -- The North -- Tonight -- So adequate -- it forms -- So preconcerted with ...
Shells from the Coast mistaking — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Shells from the Coast mistaking -- I cherished them for All -- Happening in After Ages To entertain a Pearl ...
Never for Society (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Never for Society He shall seek in vain -- Who His own acquaintance Cultivate -- Of Men Wiser Men may ...
I fear a Man of frugal Speech — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I fear a Man of frugal Speech -- I fear a Silent Man -- Haranguer -- I can overtake -- ...
The Grass so little has to do (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Grass so little has to do -- A Sphere of simple Green -- With only Butterflies to brood And ...
My Mistress Commanding Me to Return Her Letters. (Thomas Carew Poem)
SO grieves th' adventurous merchant, when he throws All the long toil'd-for treasure his ship stows Into the angry main, ...
The Wish (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Would but indulgent Fortune send To me a kind, and faithful Friend, One who to Virtue's Laws is true, And ...
Verses from the Shepherds’ Hymn (Richard Crashaw Poems)
WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young dawn of our eternal day; We saw Thine eyes break from the ...
In the Holy Nativity of our Lord (Richard Crashaw Poem)
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
November (John Clare Poem)
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
Dream Song 86: Op. posth. no. 9 (John Berryman Poem)
The conclusion is growing . . . I feel sure, my lord, this august court will entertain the plea Not ...