knowledge Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Alive (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

I am alive in the spirit living because of the sacrifice, the gift of my Savior, the free and loving ...

Books (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Paper, ink and thought Fiction and reality Passion and purpose Poetry and prose Map and drawing Monographs and periodicals Card ...

Idiots (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Feeble knats Buzzing in my classroom Inane questions Blank looks On doe-like faces Frozen in time By my knowledge Unable ...

Builder (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

I could have been an architect easel and pad, compass and straight edge vision and design at least that's what ...

Learning (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Voracious appetite For learning new things about many topics To acquire knowledge and context of why things are as they ...

Tilling in the Field (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

A motorized voyeur Driving down the road By the farm At the cusp of autumn A figure toiling in the ...

The stoddards (Eugene Field Poem)

When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night, To visit with my honest, genial friends, ...

Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun (Eugene Field Poem)

Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...

The Muleteer (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...

Neighbour Peter’s Mare (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)

A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...

St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)

TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...

King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...

An Apology for my fearfull temper (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)

Tis true of courage I'm no mistress No Boadicia nor Thalestriss Nor shall I e'er be famed hereafter For such ...

Uriel (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...

Ash Wednesday (T. S. Eliot Poem)

I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...

Elegy VII (John Donne Poem)

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou ...

A Fever (John Donne Poem)

Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone, That thee I shall not ...

I could die — to know — (Emily Dickinson Poem)

I could die -- to know -- 'Tis a trifling knowledge -- News-Boys salute the Door -- Carts -- joggle ...

Thought it was America (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Is there anything which isn't made in China? The answer is. of course there is, the question was rhetorical, a ...

Mountains of Delight (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

The problem was the manner of choice (or whether there was a choice for that matter) as you had taken ...

Cherry bomb (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...

Epitaph for Maria Wentworth (Thomas Carew Poem)

And here the precious dust is laid; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made So fine that it the guest betray'd. Else ...

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John (Thomas Carew Poems)

Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...

The Task: Book I, The Sofa (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)

Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...

Hymn to Lucifer (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act? Without its climax, death, what savour hath Life? an impeccable ...

Hymn to Lucifer (Aleister Crowley Poem)