A Calendar of Sonnets: August (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Silence again. The glorious symphony Hath need of pause and interval of peace. Some subtle signal bids all sweet sounds ...
Poems about interval (22 Poems)
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet (Tony Hoagland Poem)
At this height, Kansas is just a concept, a checkerboard design of wheat and corn no larger than the foldout ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
Waiting (Robert Frost Poem)
Afield at dusk What things for dream there are when specter-like, Moving amond tall haycocks lightly piled, I enter alone ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Storm-Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
O Music hast thou only heard The laughing river, the singing bird, The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees,-- Nothing but ...
This Consciousness that is aware (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself ...
The Symptom of the Gale — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Symptom of the Gale -- The Second of Dismay -- Between its Rumor and its Face -- Is almost ...
Love — is that later Thing than Death — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Love -- is that later Thing than Death -- More previous -- than Life -- Confirms it at its entrance ...
Before you thought of Spring (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Before you thought of Spring Except as a Surmise You see -- God bless his suddenness -- A Fellow in ...
The murmuring of Bees, has ceased (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The murmuring of Bees, has ceased But murmuring of some Posterior, prophetic, Has simultaneous come. The lower metres of 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 ...
I, or Someone Like Me (Marvin Bell Poem)
In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing through trees, with a wind playing all the high notes, and the prospect ...
History Of The Night (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
Throughout the course of the generations men constructed the night. At first she was blindness; thorns raking bare feet, fear ...
Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, ...
To Rinaldo (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
SOFT is the balmy breath of May, When from the op'ning lids of day Meek twilight steals; and from its ...
On the Way (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
Black Rook In Rainy Weather (Sylvia Plath Poems)
On the stiff twig up there Hunches a wet black rook Arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain. I ...
The Makers (Howard Nemerov Poems)
Who can remember back to the first poets, The greatest ones, greater even than Orpheus? No one has remembered that ...
Shall the Harp Then Be Silent (Thomas Moore Poems)
Shall the Harp then be silent, when he who first gave To our country a name, is withdrawn from all ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Tortoise Shout (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I thought he was dumb, said he was dumb, Yet I've heard him cry. First faint scream, Out of life's ...