Lines: Written to my Sister during her Passage to the West Indies (Emma Lyon Poems)
MY soul with joyful gratitude surveys The cheerful sun each day more splendid rise!The softest breezes fan me as ...
Poems about forbore (21 Poems)
Weeding (Charles Lamb Poems)
As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play, Was labouring industriously hardTo cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away, ...
Triple Time (Philip Larkin Poem)
This empty street, this sky to blandness scoured, This air, a little indistinct with autumn Like a reflection, constitute the ...
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, ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
A Serenade At The Villa (Robert Browning Poem)
I. That was I, you heard last night, When there rose no moon at all, Nor, to pierce the strained ...
Prospice (Robert Browning Poem)
Fear death?-to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts ...
Sonnet 06 – Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of ...
Hymn 112 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The brazen serpent; or, Looking to Jesus. John 3:14-16. So did the Hebrew prophet raise The brazen serpent high, The ...
Guinevere (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
Enoch Arden (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red ...
Pelleas And Ettarre (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
The Marriage Of Geraint (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
The Man Against the Sky (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti Poems)
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
In The Willow Shade (Christina Rossetti Poems)
I sat beneath a willow tree, Where water falls and calls; While fancies upon fancies solaced me, Some true, and ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...