Grasmere – A Fragment (Dorothy Wordsworth Poems)
Peaceful our valley, fair and green, And beautiful her cottages, Each in its nook, its sheltered hold, Or underneath its ...
Poems about flourishing (21 Poems)
Written In Juice Of Lemon (Abraham Cowley Poems)
Whilst what I write I do not see, I dare thus, ev'n to you, write poetry.Ah, foolish Muse! ...
Bare Fig-Trees (D H Lawrence Poems)
FIG-TREES, weird fig-treesMade of thick smooth silver,Made of sweet, untarnished silver in the sea-southern air--I say untarnished, but I mean ...
New Year’s Wishes (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
CHRISTMAS is over, and Christmas cheer;-- What shall we wish you, O reader dear? What do you want for your ...
The Auld House (Carolina Oliphant Poems)
Oh, the auld house, the auld house, What tho' the rooms were wee! Oh, kind hearts were dwelling there, And ...
The Invective of Achilles (George Meredith Poems)
"Heigh me! brazen of front, thou glutton for plunder, how can one,Servant here to thy mandates, ...
Feigned Courage (Charles Lamb Poems)
Horatio, of ideal courage vain,Was flourishing in air his father's cane,And, as the fumes of valour swelled his pate,Now thought ...
The Shortness Of Life (Francis Quarles Poems)
And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage,Whose glory in one day doth fill the stageWith childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.And ...
A blast of wind, a momentary breath (Barnabe Barnes Poems)
A blast of wind, a momentary breath,A wat'ry bubble symbolized with air,A sun-blown rose, but for a season fair,A ghostly ...
Middleton’s Rouseabout (Henry Lawson Poems)
Tall and freckled and sandy, Face of a country lout; This was the picture of Andy, Middleton's Rouseabout. Type of ...
Giffen’s Debt (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
Tree (Richard Jones Poem)
When the sun goes down I have my first drink standing in the yard, talking to my neighbor about the ...
THE DIRGE OF JEPHTHAH’S DAUGHTER:SUNG BY THE VIRGINS (Robert Herrick Poems)
O thou, the wonder of all days! O paragon, and pearl of praise! O Virgin-martyr, ever blest Above the rest ...
TO THE WATER-NYMPHS DRINKING AT THEFOUNTAIN (Robert Herrick Poem)
Reach with your whiter hands to me Some crystal of the spring; And I about the cup shall see Fresh ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
These are the Nights that Beetles love — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
These are the Nights that Beetles love -- From Eminence remote Drives ponderous perpendicular His figure intimate The terror of ...
To Summer (William Blake Poems)
O thou who passest thro' our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from ...
A Prayer For My Daughter (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on. There is ...
Boadicea (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionaries Burnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...