Aaron Buckles (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like so many who would follow the priest falling, caving, buckling to the will of the congregation, the people when ...
Poems about impatient (41 Poems)
Plead for Mercy (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Moses plead for mercy for the wayward children before he descended with the law he was the mediator, the go ...
A Different Fig Tree (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A different messiah without armies or power came to be planted in the soil of the owner given love and ...
A Fruitless Tree (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A tree, not bearing fruit A landowner impatient, ready to pass judgment, A gardener, ready to work, asking for more ...
Shy Shy’s First Day (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Hair just so in her pretty pig tails Don't you know "How do I look, daddy?" Drips from her lips ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
The Spleen (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
The Cautious Lovers (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Silvia, let's from the Crowd retire; For, What to you and me (Who but each other do desire) Is all ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Place for a Third (Robert Frost Poem)
Nothing to say to all those marriages! She had made three herself to three of his. The score was even ...
The Recumbent Posture (Marriott Edgar Poem)
The day after Christmas, young Albert Were what's called, confined to his bed, With a tight kind of pain in ...
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 ...
Preludes (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I THE WINTER evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Christ of Everywhere (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
"Christ of the Andes," Christ of Everywhere, Great lover of the hills, the open air, And patient lover of impatient ...
Two Travellers perishing in Snow (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words That ...
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? Then crouch within the door -- Red -- is the Fire's ...
Nature — the Gentlest Mother is, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Nature -- the Gentlest Mother is, Impatient of no Child -- The feeblest -- or the waywardest -- Her Admonition ...
Darius (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The poet Phernazis is composing the important part of his epic poem. How Darius, son of Hystaspes, assumed the kingdom ...
To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus (Richard Crashaw Poem)
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion (William Cowper Poem)
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion, Scarce can endure delay of execution, Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my Soul ...
Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity (William Cowper Poem)
Hatred and vengence-my eternal portion Scarce can endure delay of execution- Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
I stood musing in a black world (Stephen Crane Poem)
I stood musing in a black world, Not knowing where to direct my feet. And I saw the quick stream ...
The Parting (Anne Bronte Poem)
1 The chestnut steed stood by the gate His noble master's will to wait, The woody park so green and ...
Gilbert (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...