The Poe-et’s Nightmare (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
A FA FableLuxus tumultus semper causa est.Lucullus Languish, student of the skies,And connoisseur of rarebits and mince pies,A bard by ...
Poems about gibbering (21 Poems)
Ancestors (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
ON READING A FAMILY HISTORY.OPEN lies the book before me: in a realm obscure as dreamsI can trace the pale ...
Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AN ACADEMIC POEM1829-1879Read at the Commencement Dinner of the Alumni of HarvardUniversity, June 25, 1879.WHILE fond, sad memories all around ...
The Reign Of Reason (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The day of truth is dawning. I beholdO'er darksome hills the trailing robes of goldAnd silent footsteps of the gladsome ...
Grammarye (John Kenyon Poems)
"Argantyr! awake-awake-Hervor bids thy slumbers fly.Magic chords around thee break;Argantyr! reply-reply." In vain had they striven-those Beldames three- With all their might ...
Similes For Two Political Characters of 1819 (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.As from an ancestral oakTwo empty ravens sound their clarion,Yell by yell, and croak by croak,When they scent the noonday ...
The Street (James Russell Lowell Poems)
They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds,Dim ghosts of men that hover to and fro,Hugging their bodies round ...
Sonnet XVIII. To The Anonymous Editor Of Coleridge’s Letters And Conversations (John Moultrie Poems)
A gibbering ape that leads an elephant;A dwarf deformed, the presence heraldingOf potent wizard, or the Elfin King;Caliban, deigning sage ...
The Lady Of La Garaye – Part IV (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
SILENT old gateway! whose two columns stand Like simple monuments on either hand; No trellised iron-work, with pleasant view Of ...
The Cornfield And The Factory (Ernest Jones Poems)
OH! what is so blithe as through cornfields to roam, When the lark is in heaven and laughter on ...
Nightmare (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
Down crumbling steps I galloped fast;Swart cliffs and gullies on each handEngulfed the night; dry, yellow sand,Far-strewn with wreckage, gaped ...
Bewitched (Cale Young Rice Poems)
(_On a Devon Moor_) Why do I babble of bitter chills-- And icy trees--and snowy fallows? Why do I shudder ...
Ghosts (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
There are ghosts in the room.As I sit here alone, from the dark corners thereThey come out of the gloom,And ...
The Microcosm (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
Pain, pain exalts me Into consciousness:I am awake! My jangled anguish rivesEach tense quick nerve pricked by unnum-bered knives,My only ...
Syrinx (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Like the foghorn that's all lung, the wind chime that's all percussion, like the wind itself, that's merely air in ...
The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Smoke and Steel (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
The Four Brothers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
MAKE war songs out of these; Make chants that repeat and weave. Make rhythms up to the ragtime chatter of ...
A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor (Ogden Nash Poems)
The hands of the clock were reaching high In an old midtown hotel; I name no name, but its sordid ...
The Ghosts of the Buffaloes (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Last night at black midnight I woke with a cry, The windows were shaking, there was thunder on high, The ...