Arabian Night’s Entertainments (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Once on a timeThere was a little boy: a master-mageBy virtue of a BookOf magic--O, so magical it filledHis life ...
Poems about eunuchs (21 Poems)
The Man of Sentiment (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
Part One[A walled garden of York. It is an August Sunday, and the baying of deep church-bells is blown faintly ...
From “To a Writer of the Day” (Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Poems)
TECHNIQUE Could but this be broughtInto your ken,-that the technique is thought!Escape from "Style," the notion men can useWords without thoughts,-so ...
Tamara (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
Where waves of the Terek are waltzing In Dariel's wickedest pass,There rises from bleakest of storm crags An ancient grey towering mass.In ...
O Maytime Woods! (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From the idyll "Wild Thorn and Lily"O Maytime woods! O Maytime lanes and hours!And stars, that knew how often there ...
The Mameluke (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IShe was a queen. 'Midst mutes and slaves,A mameluke, he loved her.——WavesDashed not more hopelessly the pavesOf her high marble ...
The Slave (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
He waited till within her towerHer taper signalled him the hour.He was a prince both fair and brave.—What hope that ...
The King Of Sardis (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
Song of Unending Sorrow. (Bai JuYi Poems)
China's Emperor, craving beauty that might shake an empire, Was on the throne for many years, searching, never finding, Till ...
Backwardness of the Present Spring Accounted For, May 5th, 1782 (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
Last Wen'sday, when Jupiter rose to survey The annual return and procession of May, Concluding, the lady with Venus and ...
When, Like A Running Grave (Dylan Thomas Poems)
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down,Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs,Love in her gear ...
Ode to Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday (Andre Marie de Chenier Poems)
Le noir serpent, sorti de sa caverne impure,A donc vu rompre enfin sous ta main ferme et s?rele venimeux tissu ...
Song Of Lovely Women (Du Fu Poems)
Third day, third month festival, and the air fresh with spring;beside Serpentine Lake in Chang'an, many lovely women ...
The Turk (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
A totally perverse Turk bought for himself,Out of grief for the recent deathOf plump Fatme, his favorite wife,From his white-slaver, ...
Rimmon (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1903 After Boer War Duly with knees that feign to quake-- Bent head and shaded brow,-- Yet once again, for ...
Elegy II: The Anagram (John Donne Poem)
Marry, and love thy Flavia, for she Hath all things whereby others beautious be, For, though her eyes be small, ...
Respondez! (Walt Whitman Poems)
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
When, Like A Running Grave (Dylan Thomas Poems)
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs, Love in ...
Medusa (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs, Eyes rolled by white sticks, Ears cupping the sea's incoherences, You house your unnerving ...
Dance Figure (Ezra Pound Poems)
For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee Dark-eyed, O woman of my dreams, Ivory sandalled, There is none like thee ...
The Mower Against Gardens (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use, Did after him the World seduce: And from the Fields the Flow'rs ...