goddess Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Leisure (Amy Lowell Poem)

Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age, When hours were long and days sufficed to hold Wide-eyed delights and pleasures ...

Cliche Came Out of its Cage (C. S. Lewis Poem)

1 You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'. Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar ...

Shadows Before (Henry Lawson Poem)

"Like clouds o'er the South are the nations who reign On fair islands that we would command; But clouds that ...

The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)

"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...

TO My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of CLEANOR (Anne Killigrew Poem)

LOng my dull Muse in heavy slumbers lay, Indulging Sloth, and to soft Ease gave way, Her Fill of Rest ...

Alexandreis. (Anne Killigrew Poem)

I Sing the Man that never Equal knew, Whose Mighty Arms all Asia did subdue, Whose Conquests through the spacious ...

The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)

Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snowflake; ...

Villanelle (Donald Hall Poem)

Katie could put her feet behind her head Or do a grand plié, position two, Her suppleness magnificent in bed. ...

The River Scamander (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...

Painting And Sculpture (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm, Because she still is naked, being drest; The godlike sculptor will not so ...

Yes (Denise Duhamel Poem)

According to Culture Shock: A Guide to Customs and Etiquette of Filipinos, when my husband says yes, he could also ...

Sonnet LI: Calling to Mind (Michael Drayton Poem)

Calling to mind, since first my love begun, Th'uncertain times oft varying in their course, How things still unexpectedly have ...

Idea LI: Calling to mind since first my love begun (Michael Drayton Poem)

Calling to mind since first my love begun, Th' incertain times oft varying in their course, How things still unexpectedly ...

Sonnet XXX: Those Priests (Michael Drayton Poem)

To the Vestals Those priests which first the Vestal fire begun, Which might be borrow'd from no earthly flame, Devis'd ...

Keats (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

The melancholy gift Aurora gained From Jove, that her sad lover should not see The face of death, no goddess ...

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 ...

He Wonders Whether to Praise or Blame Her (Rupert Brooke Poem)

I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over, But if to praise or blame you, cannot say. ...

327. On Glenriddell’s Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment (Robert Burns Poems)

THOU, Liberty, thou art my theme; Not such as idle poets dream, Who trick thee up a heathen goddess That ...

Consolation (Matthew Arnold Poem)

Mist clogs the sunshine. Smoky dwarf houses Hem me round everywhere; A vague dejection Weighs down my soul. Yet, while ...

281. Sonnet to R. Graham, Esq., on Receiving a Favour (Robert Burns Poems)

I CALL no Goddess to inspire my strains, A fabled Muse may suit a bard that feigns: Friend of my ...

Come-by-Chance (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)

As I pondered very weary o'er a volume long and dreary -- For the plot was void of interest; 'twas ...

When We Were Here Together (Kenneth Patchen Poems)

when we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another. A bit of grass held ...

A Song of the Pen (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)

Not for the love of women toil we, we of the craft, Not for the people's praise; Only because our ...

Hero and Leander: The First Sestiad (Christopher Morley Poems)

1 On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, 2 In view and opposite two cities stood, 3 Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by ...

The Ghost of Miltiades (Thomas Moore Poems)

The Ghost of Miltiades came at night, And he stood by the bed of the Benthamite, And he said, in ...

Hero and Leander: The First Sestiad (Christopher Marlowe Poems)