John Company’s Ships (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
John Company's ships, they sailed the seas —The Merchant's Hope and the Trade's Increase ,Globe and Dragon and Hector too,Thames ...
Poems about filigree (21 Poems)
A Meeting (Bjornstjerne Bjornson Poems)
… O'er uplands fresh swift sped my sleigh…A light snow fell; along the way Stood firs and birches slender.The former ...
She Of The Garden (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
In such a spot, with radiant flowers for halo,I saw the Guardian Angel sit her down;Vine-branches fashioned a green shrine ...
The Gardens (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
The landscape now reveals a change;A stair--that twin?d elm-boughs holdEnclosed 'mid hedges mystic, strange--Inaugurates a green and goldVision of gardens, ...
The Concert (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
No, I will go alone.I will come back when it's over.Yes, of course I love you.No, it will not be ...
A Hard Frost (Cecil Day Lewis Poems)
A frost came in the night and stole my worldAnd left this changeling for it - a precociousImage of spring, ...
To A Snowflake (Francis Thompson Poems)
What heart could have thought you? — Past our devisal (O filigree petal!) Fashioned so purely, Fragilely, surely, From what ...
Tribute (Aline Murray Kilmer Poems)
DEBORAH and Christopher brought me dandelions,Kenton brought me buttercups with summer on their breath,But Michael brought an autumn leaf, like ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
The Fruit Shop (Amy Lowell Poem)
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
The Guardian Angel Of The Private Life (Jorie Graham Poem)
All this was written on the next day's list. On which the busyness unfurled its cursive roots, pale but effective, ...
Night’s sentinel (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
Colours in lamplight (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Colours in lamplight are previews, scarcely eschewed as wave-length turbulence tuned to closeness and friendship. Colours in firelight are skin-warmed ...
Fog (Amy Clampitt Poem)
A vagueness comes over everything, as though proving color and contour alike dispensable: the lighthouse extinct, the islands' spruce-tips drunk ...
Passer-By, These Are Words (Yves Bonnefoy Poem)
Passer-by, these are words. But instead of reading I want you to listen: to this frail Voice like that of ...
The Fairy Goldsmith (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Here's a wonderful thing, A humming-bird's wing In hammered gold, And store well chosen Of snowflakes frozen In crystal cold. ...
To A Snowflake (Francis Thompson Poems)
What heart could have thought you? -- Past our devisal (O filigree petal!) Fashioned so purely, Fragilely, surely, From what ...
The Concert (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
No, I will go alone. I will come back when it's over. Yes, of course I love you. No, it ...
The Bride (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
My love looks like a girl to-night, But she is old. The plaits that lie along her pillow Are not ...
Awakening… (John McLeon Poem)
Awakening, dawn's chorus Welcoming, The day new, untouched Waiting to be filled.... And will we paint a rainbow With all ...