King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Poems about highest (50 Poems)
On a Prospect of T’ai-shan (Tu Fu Poems)
How is one to describe this king of mountains? Throught the whole of Ch'i and Lu one never loses sight ...
Maple (Robert Frost Poem)
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
A Winter Eden (Robert Frost Poem)
A winter garden in an alder swamp, Where conies now come out to sun and romp, As near a paradise ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Blight (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
Dæmonic Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
La Figlia che Piange (T. S. Eliot Poem)
O quam te memorem virgo... STAND on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave ...
Gus: The Theatre Cat (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really ...
A Runnable Stag (John Davidson Poem)
When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom, And apples began to be golden-skinn'd, We harbour'd a stag ...
Sonnet LIV: Yet Read at Last (Michael Drayton Poem)
Yet read at last the story of my woe, The dreary abstracts of my endless cares, With my life's sorrow ...
Charms (William Henry Davies Poem)
She walks as lightly as the fly Skates on the water in July. To hear her moving petticoat For me ...
Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
Heroic Stanzas (John Dryden Poem)
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
The Vain King (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Merry Autumn (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
It's all a farce,-these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the ...
One crown that no one seeks (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One crown that no one seeks And yet the highest head Its isolation coveted Its stigma deified While Pontius Pilate ...
A Wounded Deer — leaps highest (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Wounded Deer -- leaps highest -- I've heard the Hunter tell -- 'Tis but the Ecstasy of death -- ...
From The Ladies Defence (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
The Unpardonable Sin (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
I do not cry, beloved, neither curse. Silence and strength, these two at least are good. He gave me sun ...
The Logical Vegetarian (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
"Why shouldn't I have a purely vegetarian drink? Why shouldn't I take vegetables in their highest form, so to speak? ...
The Death of Nicou (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
Living and a Dead Faith (William Cowper Poem)
The Lord receives his highest praise From humble minds and hearts sincere; While all the loud professor says Offends the ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Improvisatore (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Blustering God (Stephen Crane Poem)
i Blustering God, Stamping across the sky With loud swagger, I fear You not. No, though from Your highest heaven ...
“Truth,” said a traveller (Stephen Crane Poem)
"Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; Often have I been to it, Even to its highest ...
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 ...
Music on Christmas Morning (Anne Bronte Poem)
Music I love - but never strain Could kindle raptures so divine, So grief assuage, so conquer pain, And rouse ...
A Polar Explorer (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
All the huskies are eaten. There is no space left in the diary, And the beads of quick words scatter ...