Employment (I) (George Herbert Poem)
If as a flower doth spread and die, Thou wouldst extend me to some good, Before I were by frost's ...
Poems about extremity (21 Poems)
Wolf Knife (Donald Hall Poem)
In the mid August, in the second year of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter almost ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Sonnet XX: An Evil Spirit (Michael Drayton Poem)
An evil spirit, your beauty haunts me still, Wherewith, alas, I have been long possest, Which ceaseth not to tempt ...
Idea XX: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still (Michael Drayton Poem)
An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still, Wherewith, alas, I have been long possess'd, Which ceaseth not to tempt ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
I read my sentence — steadily (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I read my sentence -- steadily -- Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In ...
On a Columnar Self — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
On a Columnar Self -- How ample to rely In Tumult -- or Extremity -- How good the Certainty That ...
I got so I could take his name (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I got so I could take his name -- Without -- Tremendous gain -- That Stop-sensation -- on my Soul ...
“Hope” is the thing with feathers (Emily Dickinson Poem)
"Hope" is the thing with feathers -- That perches in the soul -- And sings the tune without the words ...
Syrinx (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Like the foghorn that's all lung, the wind chime that's all percussion, like the wind itself, that's merely air in ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
The Voice (Matthew Arnold Poem)
As the kindling glances, Queen-like and clear, Which the bright moon lances From her tranquil sphere At the sleepless waters ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1 (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
The Maid of Neidpath (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
O lovers' eyes are sharp to see, And lovers' ears in hearing; And love, in life's extremity, Can lend an ...
Sonnet LI (William Shakespeare Poems)
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed: From where thou ...
Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence (William Shakespeare Poems)
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence Of my dull bearer, when from thee I speed: From where thou ...
Lost in the Prairie (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
In one of fhe States of America, some years ago, There suddenly came on a violent storm of snow, Which ...
The Hero of Kalapore (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
The 27th Regiment has mutinied at Kalapore; That was the substance of a telegram, which caused great uproar, At Sattara, ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Tortoise Shout (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I thought he was dumb, said he was dumb, Yet I've heard him cry. First faint scream, Out of life's ...