Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
Poems about impotence (21 Poems)
The Deserted Village (Oliver Goldsmith Poem)
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
If What we could — were what we would (Emily Dickinson Poem)
If What we could -- were what we would -- Criterion -- be small -- It is the Ultimate of ...
Banish Air from Air — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Banish Air from Air -- Divide Light if you dare -- They'll meet While Cubes in a Drop Or Pellets ...
Portrait of a Baby (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
He lay within a warm, soft world Of motion. Colors bloomed and fled, Maroon and turquoise, saffron, red, Wave upon ...
THE TEMPTATION (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
THE Demon, in my chamber high, This morning came to visit me, And, thinking he would find some fault, He ...
Aurora Leigh (excerpts) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
The Disabled Debauchee (John Wilmot Poems)
As some brave admiral, in former war, Deprived of force, but pressed with courage still, Two rival fleets appearing from ...
Respondez! (Walt Whitman Poems)
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
Carol of Occupations. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
In the Stalls (Arthur Symons Poems)
My life is like a music-hall, Where, in the impotence of rage, Chained by enchantment to my stall, I see ...
The Triumph of Life (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) (Alexander Pope Poems)
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Motel Seedy (Thomas Lux Poems)
The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base (a huge red slug with a hole where its heart ...
On the Threshold (Amy Levy Poems)
O God, my dream! I dreamed that you were dead; Your mother hung above the couch and wept Whereon you ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
Red Dust (Philip Levine Poems)
This harpie with dry red curls talked openly of her husband, his impotence, his death, the death of her lover, ...