The Swimmer (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
With short, sharp violent lights made vivid, To the southward far as the sight can roam, Only the swirl of ...
Poems about lain (31 Poems)
THE MAID OF THE MILL’S REPENTANCE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
YOUTH. AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee! Or else I needs must, in ...
Love and Black Magic (Robert Graves Poem)
To the woods, to the woods is the wizard gone; In his grotto the maiden sits alone. She gazes up ...
A lowly stable (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
how right, based on the rest of his life, a lowly stable, not a palace, a throne the king of ...
Ballad of the Army Carts (Tu Fu Poem)
The carts squeak and trundle, the horses whinny, the conscripts go by, each with a bow and arrows at his ...
A Servant to Servants (Robert Frost Poem)
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
Mother Earth (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed, Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the ...
When I count the seeds (Emily Dickinson Poem)
When I count the seeds That are sown beneath, To bloom so, bye and bye -- When I con the ...
To disappear enhances — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To disappear enhances -- The Man that runs away Is tinctured for an instant With Immortality But yesterday a Vagrant ...
The Face in evanescence lain (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Face in evanescence lain Is more distinct than ours -- And ours surrendered for its sake As Capsules are ...
Lain in Nature — so suffice us (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Lain in Nature -- so suffice us The enchantless Pod When we advertise existence For the missing Seed -- Maddest ...
I bring an unaccustomed wine (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I bring an unaccustomed wine To lips long parching Next to mine, And summon them to drink; Crackling with fever, ...
A Man may make a Remark — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Man may make a Remark -- In itself -- a quiet thing That may furnish the Fuse unto a ...
The farthest Thunder that I heard (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The farthest Thunder that I heard Was nearer than the Sky And rumbles still, though torrid Noons Have lain their ...
The Grass so little has to do (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Grass so little has to do -- A Sphere of simple Green -- With only Butterflies to brood And ...
I should not dare to leave my friend, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I should not dare to leave my friend, Because -- because if he should die While I was gone -- ...
How many times these low feet staggered (Emily Dickinson Poem)
How many times these low feet staggered -- Only the soldered mouth can tell -- Try -- can you stir ...
I died for Beauty — but was scarce (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I died for Beauty -- but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain ...
The Lost Heifer (Austin Clarke Poem)
When the black herds of the rain were grazing, In the gap of the pure cold wind And the watery ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
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!- ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Night (Anne Bronte Poem)
I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may ...
Nimium Fortunatus (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
I have lain in the sun I have toil'd as I might, I have thought as I would, And now ...
Presentiment (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
' SISTER, you've sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The ...
Epitaph For A Romantic Woman (Louise Bogan Poem)
She has attained the permanence She dreamed of, where old stones lie sunning. Untended stalks blow over her Even and ...
The White Peacock (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
475. Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness) (Robert Burns Poem)
BLESS Jesus Christ, O Cardonessp, With grateful, lifted eyes, Who taught that not the soul alone, But body too shall ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
The Rock Cries Out to Us Today (Maya Angelou Poem)
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...