The Prairie (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I see the grass shake in the sun for leagues on either hand, I see a river loop and run ...
Poems about far-off (31 Poems)
The Benefactors (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
The Betrothed (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
The Woman At The Washington Zoo (Randall Jarrell Poem)
The saris go by me from the embassies. Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. They look back at ...
The Dame of Athelhall (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "Soul! Shall I see thy face," she said, "In one brief hour? And away with thee from a loveless ...
The Ghost Of The Past (Thomas Hardy Poem)
We two kept house, the Past and I, The Past and I; I tended while it hovered nigh, Leaving me ...
The wooing of the southland (Eugene Field Poem)
(ALASKAN BALLAD) The Northland reared his hoary head And spied the Southland leagues away-- "Fairest of all fair brides," he ...
The “happy isles” of horace (Eugene Field Poem)
Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles In the golden haze off yonder, Where the song of the sun-kissed ...
Moonlit Night (Tu Fu Poem)
Tonight at Fu-chou, this moon she watches Alone in our room. And my little, far-off Children, too young to understand ...
Poet As Fisherman (James A. Emanuel Poem)
I fish for words to say what I fish for, half-catch sometimes. I have caught little pan fish flashing sunlight ...
The Vain King (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Storm-Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
O Music hast thou only heard The laughing river, the singing bird, The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees,-- Nothing but ...
Sea-Gulls of Manhattan (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Children of the elemental mother, Born upon some lonely island shore Where the wrinkled ripples run and whisper, Where the ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Longfellow (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Where there were many ...
Indian Summer (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
A soft veil dims the tender skies, And half conceals from pensive eyes The bronzing tokens of the fall; A ...
Song to the Evening Star (Thomas Campbell Poem)
1 Star that bringest home the bee, 2 And sett'st the weary labourer free! 3 If any star shed peace, ...
To the Evening Star (Thomas Campbell Poem)
Star that bringest home the bee, And sett'st the weary labourer free! If any star shed peace, 'tis thou, That ...
Myself (Robert Creeley Poem)
What, younger, felt was possible, now knows is not - but still not chanted enough - Walked by the sea, ...
Prologue (Lewis Carroll Poem)
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are ...
All In The Golden Afternoon (Lewis Carroll Poem)
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are ...
Cornish Cliffs (John Betjeman Poem)
Those moments, tasted once and never done, Of long surf breaking in the mid-day sun. A far-off blow-hole booming like ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema (Conrad Aiken Poem)
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 06: Over the darkened city, the city of towers (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the ...
Evening Song Of Senlin (Conrad Aiken Poem)
from Senlin: A Biography It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves, remote ...
Discordants (Conrad Aiken Poem)
I. (Bread and Music) Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was ...
Morning Song Of Senlin (Conrad Aiken Poem)
from Senlin: A Biography It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning When the light drips through the shutters ...
The Boy (William Allingham Poem)
The Boy from his bedroom-window Look'd over the little town, And away to the bleak black upland Under a clouded ...
After Sunset (William Allingham Poem)
The vast and solemn company of clouds Around the Sun's death, lit, incarnadined, Cool into ashy wan; as Night enshrouds ...
The Forsaken Merman (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...