“As Psyche-Life goes down to the shades” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
As Psyche-Life goes down to the shadesIn a translucent forest in Persephone's tracks,A blind swallow falls at her feetWith Stygian ...
Poems about hesitates (21 Poems)
The Bell’s Dress (Paul Colinet Poems)
She's morning's residence. She's as clear as she isinvisible, as tranquil as forgotten lands.Her hair is golden, her smooth windows ...
On The Water (Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme Poems)
The sound of bank and water is all I hear,The sad resignation of a weeping springOr a rock that hourly ...
Shadow (Josef Hora Poems)
A flower, when it is November. Seems sheepish in the bloom. A shadow was cast on the ground As austerely as dice. Pilgrims on ...
Rape Of Florida: Canto I: Invocation (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
The Ideal And The Actual Life (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Forever fair, forever calm and bright,Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice—Moons wane, and ...
The Anarchist. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
THE dawn hangs heavy on the distant hill,The darkness shudders slowly into light;And from the weary bosom of the nightThe ...
The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)
He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...
Visitors (Donald Marquis Poems)
THEY haunt me, they tease me with hinted Withheld revelations, The songs that I may not utter; They lead me, ...
The Beautiful Toilet (Ezra Pound Poems)
Blue, blue is the grass about the riverAnd the willows have overfilled the close garden.And within, the mistress, in the ...
adventure (Rg Gregory Poem)
just as the dusk comes hooting down through the shivering black leaves of the swinging trees we (the brave ones ...
Searching For Pittsburgh (Jack Gilbert Poem)
The fox pushes softly, blindly through me at night, between the liver and the stomach. Comes to the heart and ...
Astræ (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Himself it was who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That ...
Rhapsody on a Windy Night (T. S. Eliot Poem)
TWELVE o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of ...
Superfluous were the Sun (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Superfluous were the Sun When Excellence be dead He were superfluous every Day For every Day be said That syllable ...
The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, The maddest noise that grows, -- The birds, they make it in the spring, ...
The Ideal And The Actual Life (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Forever fair, forever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice-- Moons ...
The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)
He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...
Child In Red (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Sometimes she walks through the village in her little red dress all absorbed in restraining herself, and yet, despite herself, ...
Trees In The Garden (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Ah in the thunder air how still the trees are! And the lime-tree, lovely and tall, every leaf silent hardly ...
The Distant Winter (Philip Levine Poems)
from an officer's diary during the last war I The sour daylight cracks through my sleep-caked lids. "Stephan! Stephan!" The ...