Frankincense and Myrrh (Amy Lowell Poem)
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind ...
Poems about imaginings (21 Poems)
The Starling (Amy Lowell Poem)
"`I can't get out', said the starling." Sterne's `Sentimental Journey'. Forever the impenetrable wall Of self confines my poor rebellious ...
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Australian Engineers (Henry Lawson Poem)
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things ...
Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
Since that first morning when I crawled into the world, a naked grubby thing, and found the world unkind, my ...
The Fabulists (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When all the world would keep a matter hid, Since Truth is seldom Friend to any crowd, Men write in ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Next Day (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add it to my wild rice, ...
The End Of The Weekend (Anthony Hecht Poem)
A dying firelight slides along the quirt Of the cast iron cowboy where he leans Against my father's books. The ...
Houses chapter IX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
A mason came forth and said, "Speak to us of Houses." And he answered and said: Build of your imaginings ...
The Shepherd’s Tree (John Clare Poems)
Huge elm, with rifted trunk all notched and scarred, Like to a warrior's destiny! I love To stretch me often ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Sonnet XI (Alan Seeger Poems)
When among creatures fair of countenance Love comes enformed in such proud character, So far as other beauty yields to ...
The Witch Of Atlas (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- ...
Peter Quince At The Clavier (Wallace Stevens Poems)
I Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, ...
Mont Blanc (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
(Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni) 1 The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its ...
Kinship (George William Russell Poems)
IN summer time, with high imaginings Of proud Crusaders and of Paynim kings, The children crowned themselves with famous names, ...
The Man Against the Sky (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
Dead Man’s Dump (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
The plunging limbers over the shattered track Racketed with their rusty freight, Stuck out like many crowns of thorns, And ...
The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...