The Death of Virtuous (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
Sweet is the scene when Virtue dies!-When sinks a righteous soul to rest,How mildly beam the closing eyes,How gently heaves ...
Poems about insidious (21 Poems)
Tendrils (Edith Mirick Poems)
Love is a vine that deviously crawlsAbout the heart like ivy on old walls,Prying insidious tendrils as the fabric falls ...
Piano (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
To A Lady (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Offended by a Book of the Writer's NOW that my page upcloses, doomed, maybe, Never to press thy cosy cushions ...
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 ...
We do not want to believe (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our worlds in denial safe from reality we do not want to believe the evil stalking our loved ones the ...
Pernicious (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Are we complicit when we stand in silence pernicious discrimination devaluing our neighbor Excluding them from inclusion blind to the ...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T. S. Eliot Poem)
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
Like Time’s insidious wrinkle (Emily Dickinson Poems)
Like Time's insidious wrinkle On a beloved Face We clutch the Grace the tighter Though we resent the crease The ...
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 ...
Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford (Thomas Warton Poems)
Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Those faultless forms of elegance and grace! Ah, cease to spread the ...
CHARMIDES (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
Aunt Imogen (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore The children-Jane, Sylvester, and Young George- Were eyes and ears; for there was only ...
Doctor of Billiards (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Of all among the fallen from on high, We count you last and leave you to regain Your born dominion ...
Rahel to Varnhagen (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
The New Tenants (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
The day was here when it was his to know How fared the barriers he had built between His triumph ...
Ainsi Va le Monde (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
Lines on Hearing it Declared that No Women Were So Handsome as the English (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
BEAUTY, the attribute of Heaven! In various forms to mortals given, With magic skill enslaves mankind, As sportive fancy sways ...
Ode to Beauty (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
EXULTING BEAUTY,phantom of an hour, Whose magic spells enchain the heart, Ah ! what avails thy fascinating pow'r, Thy thrilling ...
Dora Williams (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just ...