The Poet (Amy Lowell Poem)
What instinct forces man to journey on, Urged by a longing blind but dominant! Nothing he sees can hold him, ...
Poems about friendships (24 Poems)
A Fairy Tale (Amy Lowell Poem)
On winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures. There before ...
My Lost Youth (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Often I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea; Often in thought go up and down ...
THREE ODES TO MY FRIEND. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
The Triumph Of Achilles (Louise Gluck Poem)
In the story of Patroclus no one survives, not even Achilles who was nearly a god. Patroclus resembled him; they ...
Drivebys (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Driveby friendships in the inbetween times the gaps, spaces between classes, lunch, studying caught in line, in the hall, bookstore, ...
Drivebys – revised (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Driveby friendships in the inbetween times the gaps, spaces between classes, lunch, studying caught in line, in the hall, bookstore, ...
The Bench-Legged Fyce (Eugene Field Poem)
Speakin' of dorgs, my bench-legged fyce Hed most o' the virtues, an' nary a vice. Some folks called him Sooner, ...
De Amicitiis (Eugene Field Poem)
Though care and strife Elsewhere be rife, Upon my word I do not heed 'em; In bed I lie With ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Clyster (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; And ...
Growing Apart (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We knew their names or thought we did, we knew their faces from an album of places we'd played in ...
The Triumph Of Achilles (Paul Celan Poem)
In the story of Patroclus no one survives, not even Achilles who was nearly a god. Patroclus resembled him; they ...
The Three Sorts of Friends (fragment) (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Though friendships differ endless in degree , The sorts , methinks, may be reduced to three. Ac quaintance many, and ...
To The Rev. George Coleridge (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
From ‘The Testament of Beauty’ (Robert Seymour Bridges Poems)
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
The Teacher’s Monologue (Charlotte Bronte Poems)
The room is quiet, thoughts alone People its mute tranquillity; The yoke put on, the long task done, I am, ...
On A Distant View Of Harrow (Lord Byron Poem)
Ye scenes of my childhood, whose lov'd recollection Embitters the present, compar'd with the past; Where science first dawn'd on ...
203. Sylvander to Clarinda (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN dear Clarinda, 1 matchless fair, First struck Sylvander's raptur'd view, He gaz'd, he listened to despair, Alas! 'twas all ...
352. The Song of Death (Robert Burns Poems)
FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the broad setting sun; Farewell, loves and ...
The Leal (Dorothy Parker Poems)
The friends I made have slipped and strayed, And who's the one that cares? A trifling lot and best forgot- ...
Avenging and Bright (Thomas Moore Poems)
Avenging and bright fall the swift sword of Erin On him who the brave sons of Usna betray'd! -- For ...
Tis the Last Rose of Summer (Thomas Moore Poems)
Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone: No flower of ...