Prevailing Winds (Lee Anderson2 Poems)
IThe bland many-eyed wallsof skyscrapers and the modestin-between brownstone housesshall not bruise the thrust of his rapier spiritrather the artist ...
Poems about intemperate (21 Poems)
The Bas Bleu: Or, Conversation. Addressed To Mrs. Vesey (Hannah More Poems)
VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,Awhile my idle strain attend:Not with the days of early Greece,I mean to ope ...
Experience (Jane Taylor Poems)
--A COSTLY good ; that none e'er bought or soldFor gem, or pearl, or miser's store, twice told :Save certain ...
Beechwood (John Freeman Poems)
Hear me, O beeches! YouThat have with ageless anguish slowly risenFrom earth's still secret prisonInto the ampler prison of aery ...
Vanity of Vanities (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
A Song of EmptinessTo Fill up the Empty Pages FollowingVain, frail, short liv'd, and miserable Man,Learn what thou art when ...
Three Valentines to the Wide World (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
IThe child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, shestands on one leg and folds up the other. She is listeningto the ...
Death by Aesthetics (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover,dressed as a virgin, coming to keep the tryst.The patient was early; she is ...
Address And Welcome To J. B. Gough (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Welcome! Oh, welcome! in thy course of fame—Through rolling clouds of smoke and lurid flame,Belched from a hundred murky piles—at ...
The Vine (Henry James Pye Poems)
Like clustering tents upon the embattled mead, See Vitis thick her small pavilions spread. Beneath each silken veil, with studious care Five amorous ...
The Daisy (Marya Zaturenska Poems)
Having so rich a treasurey, so fine a hordOf beauty water-bright before my eyes,I plucked the daisy only, simple and ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
A Reading Of Life–With The Persuader (George Meredith Poems)
Who murmurs, hither, hither: whoWhere nought is audible so fills the ear?Where nought is visible can make appearA veil with ...
Eleonora (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
O THOU ! to whom each thought unchanging tends,To thee these lines a wretched captive sends.In vain did love our ...
Not Even My Pride Shall Suffer Much (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Not even my pride shall suffer much;Not even my pride at all, maybe,If this ill-timed, intemperate clutchBe loosed by you ...
Clerihew – Bunyan (Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems)
I do not extenuate Bunyan'sIntemperate use of onions,But if I knew a wicked agressI would lend her The Pilgrim's Progress.(Edmund ...
Hurt Hawks (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, ...
To The Rev. George Coleridge (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
The Deserted Garden (Alan Seeger Poems)
I know a village in a far-off land Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain With tinted walls a space on ...
Not Even My Pride Shall Suffer Much (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Not even my pride shall suffer much; Not even my pride at all, maybe, If this ill-timed, intemperate clutch Be ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...