Wise Men In Their Bad Hours (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Wise men in their bad hours have envied The little people making merry like grasshoppers In spots of sunlight, hardly ...
Poems about envied (25 Poems)
The Flaâneur (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
Bill and Joe (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
COME, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone by, The shining days when life ...
PROMETHEUS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus, With clouds of mist, And, like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with ...
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray Poem)
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods ...
The Criminal V (Khalil Gibran Poem)
A young man of strong body, weakened by hunger, sat on the walker's portion of the street stretching his hand ...
The Psalter (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
The Foolish Fir-Tree (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
The Reason Why I’m Fat (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
I thought my father was far too fat - eagerly I told him so, if he was offended it didn't ...
The Jolly Company (Rupert Brooke Poem)
The stars, a jolly company, I envied, straying late and lonely; And cried upon their revelry: "O white companionship! You ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island (Robert Browning Poem)
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed’s Church (Robert Browning Poems)
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, ...
A Dog Has Died (Pablo Neruda Poems)
My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I'll join ...
Chattanooga (Herman Melville Poems)
(November, 1863) A kindling impulse seized the host Inspired by heaven's elastic air; Their hearts outran their General's plan, Though ...
Tis Gone, And For Ever (Thomas Moore Poems)
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking, Like Heaven's first dawn o'er the sleep of the dead ...
The Death of Cromwell (Andrew Marvell Poems)
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
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 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Teddy Bear (A. A. Milne Poems)
A bear, however hard he tries, Grows tubby without exercise. Our Teddy Bear is short and fat, Which is not ...
A Greek Girl (Amy Levy Poems)
I may not weep, not weep, and he is dead. A weary, weary weight of tears unshed Through the long ...
Child of a Day (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
Child of a day, thou knowest not The tears that overflow thy urn, The gushing eyes that read thy lot, ...
How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Oh, once I walked in Heaven, all alone Upon the sacred cliffs above the sky. God and the angels, and ...
On Reading Omar Khayyam (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
In the midst of the battle I turned, (For the thunders could flourish ...