Gracious Rain (Caroline Anne Bowles Southey Poems)
The east wind had whistled for many a day,Sere and wintry, o'er summer's domain;And the sun, muffled up in a ...
Poems about hardness (21 Poems)
Bad Days (Boris Pasternak Poems)
When Passion week started and JesusCame down to the city, that dayHosannahs burst out at his entryAnd palm leaves were ...
Ballad XIV (Christine de Pizan Poems)
Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer ! Come, rend me from this dolorous world apart ! ...
Hymn XXVII: Saviour, the World’s and Mine (Charles Wesley Poems)
Saviour, the world's and mine,Was ever grief like thine!Thou my pain, my curse hast took,All my sins were laid on ...
All For Herself; Shakey (Eli Siegel Poems)
Darkly, between two worlds, Darkly, impeded; What it might joy at Not seen as needed. Such winsome coils in a ...
Laud’s Devotions (Frederick William Faber Poems)
In stillest prayers and hours of holy thought Thy spirit, dearest of the Martyr band! Long time hath been with ...
Comfort (Archibald Lampman Poems)
Comfort the sorrowful with watchful eyesIn silence, for the tongue cannot avail.Vex not his wounds with rhetoric, nor the staleWorn ...
Of One Who Died In Spring (George MacDonald Poems)
Loosener of springs, he died by thee!Softness, not hardness, sent him home;He loved thee—and thou mad'st him freeOf all the ...
Sad Steps (Philip Larkin Poem)
Groping back to bed after a piss I part the thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the ...
Grace (George Herbert Poem)
My stock lies dead and no increase Doth my dull husbandry improve: O let thy graces without cease Drop from ...
Digging (Seamus Heaney Poem)
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pin rest; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping ...
Winter in Durnover Field (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Scene.--A wide stretch of fallow ground recently sown with wheat, and frozen to iron hardness. Three large birds walking about ...
two south coast poems (a) this morning i came within sound of the sea (Rg Gregory Poem)
for a man whose eyes till now were a bed of rock whose hands were drier than deserts the sea's ...
Please Master (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Please master can I touch your cheeck please master can I kneel at your feet please master can I loosen ...
Love The Lord (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, Never let His words depart. Love Him with your soul and ...
A New Shepherd (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We heard a new shepherd in the quiet of the congregation listening, hanging on each new word our attention held ...
The Rain (Robert Creeley Poem)
All night the sound had come back again, and again falls this quite, persistent rain. What am I to myself ...
Self Communion (Anne Bronte Poem)
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
The Carver (Conrad Aiken Poem)
See, as the carver carves a rose, A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye, In cruel granite, to disclose The ...
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
Crossing The Atlantic (Anne Sexton Poems)
We sail out of season into on oyster-gray wind, over a terrible hardness. Where Dickens crossed with mal de mer ...