London Siren (Alan Pryce-Jones Poems)
I sat at a high window till sleep despaired of meAnd all the anger in this small roomShook me for ...
Poems about intruder (21 Poems)
At Delphi (Alfred Austin Poems)
I Apollo! Apollo! Apollo!II Where hast thou, Apollo, gone? I have wandered on and on, Through the shaggy Dorian gorges, ...
A Reply To A Pessimist (Alfred Austin Poems)
O beautiful bright world! for ever young, And now with Wisdom grafted on thy Spring, Why do they slander thee ...
The Hermit’s Sacrifice (Frances Ellen Watkins Poems)
From Rome's palaces and villas Gaily issued forth a throng; From her humbler habitations Moved a human tide along. Haughty ...
The Muse And The Poet (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
The Muse said, Let us sing a little songWherein no hint of wrong,No echo of the great world need, or ...
A Dream of Waking (George MacDonald Poems)
A child was born in sin and shame,Wronged by his very birth,Without a home, without a name,One over in the ...
An Evening Psalm (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
Written Just Before Leaving EnglandTHERE are bright mountains in the happy West;The sun's last rays upon their summits rest;Above their ...
Chorus of Youths and Virgins (Alexander Pope Poems)
Semichorus.Oh Tyrant Love! hast thou possestThe prudent, learn'd, and virtuous breast?Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim,And Arts but soften us ...
Rebecca At The Well (Ernest Jones Poems)
In the desert of life I found thee,In the wide, wide desert of life alone! The wilderness ...
Crime and Punishment chapter XII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
Disturbing the Spiders (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
For a few moments on the side of the house the main thing I was doing wasn't painting, not even ...
Winter Came In (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Uninvited, unwelcome, too soon winter came in in through the open front door as I sat reading on the couch ...
The Wall (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Maybe those who believe A piece of your soul Is stolen with each photograph taken Are right Reflecting back over ...
The Case Of Conscience (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
Statuary (Nick Flynn Poem)
Bees may be trusted, always, to discover the best, nay, the only human, solution. Let me cite an instance; an ...
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 ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
O, We Are The Outcasts (Charles Bukowski Poems)
ah, christ, what a CREW: more poetry, always more P O E T R Y . if it doesn't come, ...
The Garden Of Eros (Oscar Wilde Poems)
It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...
Beautiful Nairn (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
All ye tourists who wish to be away From the crowded city for a brief holiday; The town of Nairn ...