In Springtime (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
My garden blazes brightly with the rose-bush and the peach, And the koil sings above it, in the siris by ...
Poems about knell (31 Poems)
The Fir-Tree and the Brook (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
The Fir-Tree looked on stars, but loved the Brook! "O silver-voiced! if thou wouldst wait, My love can bravely woo." ...
A BROTHER IN NEED (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
NOW, rallying once if ne'er again, With flag at half-mast flown, A people in dire need and strain Mans Tyra's ...
Mortification (George Herbert Poem)
How soon doth man decay! When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets To swaddle infants, whose young breath ...
His Meditation Upon Death (Robert Herrick Poem)
BE those few hours, which I have yet to spend, Blest with the meditation of my end; Though they be ...
Amabel (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I MARKED her ruined hues, Her custom-straitened views, And asked, "Can there indwell My Amabel?" I looked upon her gown, ...
The Problem (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Shall we conceal the Case, or tell it - We who believe the evidence? Here and there the watch-towers knell ...
A Man (In Memory of H. of M.) (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, Wrought with pilaster, bay, and balustrade In tactful times when shrewd Eliza ...
Tess’s Lament (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I I would that folk forgot me quite, Forgot me quite! I would that I could shrink from sight, And ...
God’s Funeral (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I I saw a slowly-stepping train -- Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar -- Following in files ...
THE TREASURE-DIGGER (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ALL my weary days I pass'd Sick at heart and poor in purse. Poverty's the greatest curse, Riches are the ...
THE BRIDE OF CORINTH. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray Poem)
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods ...
She could not live upon the Past (Emily Dickinson Poem)
She could not live upon the Past The Present did not know her And so she sought this sweet at ...
Saturday At The Border (Hayden Carruth Poem)
"Form follows function follows form . . . , etc." --Dr. J. Anthony Wadlington Here I am writing my first ...
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 ...
Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Fit the Sixth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
The Folly of Wisdom (Michael Burch Poem)
She is wise in the way that children are wise, looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes I must ...
On the Funeral of Charles the First (William Lisle Bowles Poem)
The castle clock had tolled midnight: With mattock and with spade, And silent, by the torches' light, His corse in ...
IX. O Poverty! though from thy haggard eye… (William Lisle Bowles Poem)
O POVERTY! though from thy haggard eye, Thy cheerless mein, of every charm bereft, Thy brow, that hope's last traces ...
Sonnet: O Poverty! Though From Thy Haggard Eye (William Lisle Bowles Poem)
O, Poverty! though from thy haggard eye, Thy cheerless mien, of every charm bereft, Thy brow that Hope's last traces ...
Elegy (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homewards ...
Freedom (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
When We Two Parted (Lord Byron Poem)
When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, ...
Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along (Robert Browning Poem)
Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King, Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing: And, pressing a troop unable to stoop And ...
287. Song-The Battle of Sherramuir (Robert Burns Poem)
"O CAM ye here the fight to shun, Or herd the sheep wi' me, man? Or were ye at the ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 05: Retrospect (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops, Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass. A flock of ...