Arrival (Philip Larkin Poem)
Morning, a glass door, flashes Gold names off the new city, Whose white shelves and domes travel The slow sky ...
Poems about ignorance (26 Poems)
The Building (Philip Larkin Poem)
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
To The Nile (John Keats Poem)
Son of the old Moon-mountains African! Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile! We call thee fruitful, and that very while ...
A Farewell to the World (Ben Jonson Poem)
FALSE world, good night! since thou hast brought That hour upon my morn of age; Henceforth I quit thee from ...
Je Suis une table (Donald Hall Poem)
It has happened suddenly, by surprise, in an arbor, or while drinking good coffee, after speaking, or before, that I ...
Song of Man XXV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
I was here from the moment of the Beginning, and here I am still. And I shall remain here until ...
Father Death Blues (Don’t Grow Old, Part V) (Allen Ginsberg Poems)
Hey Father Death, I'm flying home Hey poor man, you're all alone Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going ...
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 ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
For the Better (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred, With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed; Enquiring, how he did ...
The Lightning is a yellow Fork (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Lightning is a yellow Fork From Tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropt The awful Cutlery Of mansions ...
No Man can compass a Despair (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Man can compass a Despair -- As round a Goalless Road No faster than a Mile at once The ...
He parts Himself — like Leaves — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He parts Himself -- like Leaves -- And then -- He closes up -- Then stands upon the Bonnet Of ...
An ignorance a Sunset (Emily Dickinson Poem)
An ignorance a Sunset Confer upon the Eye -- Of Territory -- Color -- Circumference -- Decay -- Its Amber ...
On Love (Bliss Carman Poem)
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
The Dungeon (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Song (Act V, scene i) And this place our forefathers made for man ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Testament (Wendell Berry Poem)
1. Dear relatives and friends, when my last breath Grows large and free in air, don't call it death -- ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Rogue Elephant (A. R. Ammons Poem)
The reason to be autonomous is to stand there, a cleared instrument, ready to act, to search the moral realm ...
November 1968 (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Stripped you're beginning to float free up through the smoke of brushfires and incinerators the unleafed branches won't hold you ...
Farewell Address at the Argyle Hall (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Fellow Citizens of Dundee. I now must bid farewell to ye. For I am going to London far away. But ...
Tom May’s Death (Andrew Marvell Poems)
As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on ...
On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost (Andrew Marvell Poems)
When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender Book his vast Design unfold, Messiah Crown'd, Gods Reconcil'd Decree, ...
Percival Sharp (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Observe the clasped hands! Are they hands of farewell or greeting, Hands that I helped or hands that helped me? ...