A Ditty Of No Tone (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
_Piped to the Spirit of John Keats._ I. Would that my lips might pour out in thy praise A fitting melody--an air sublime,-- A ...
Poems about languors (21 Poems)
Carmen (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Night in Seville, and the twinkle Of stars in the far azure set,The mandolin's torturing tinkle, The click of the castanet!Music and ...
In Woodland Ways (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Out of the poignant glare, the shadeless heatOf summer noon, beseech thee follow meInto the dim, dream-haunted secrecyThe cool, green ...
The Purple Valleys (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Far in the purple valleys of illusionI see her waiting, like the soul of music,With deep eyes, lovelier than cerulean ...
L’Ennuyee (Joanna Baillie Poems)
OH ! is it dreaming follyThat thus my mind deludes?Or listless melancholyUnbidden that intrudes?Why sinks this soul of pleasureThat once ...
Betrothal Night (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THROUGH golden languors of low glimmering light,Deep eyes, o'erbrimmed with passion's sacred wine,Heart-perfumed tears--yearning towards me, shineLike stars made lovelier ...
The City Of The Soul: II (Lord Alfred Douglas Poems)
What shall we do, my soul, to please the King?Seeing he hath no pleasure in the dance,And hath condemned the ...
Euthumism (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
If in the spirit glows no spark divine;If soulless dust return to dust again;If, after life, but death and dark ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto VIII (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Admiration.ARGUMENT. Coeli trina MONAS, TRIAS una, faveto precanti! PERSONAS un? Tres DEITATE colo! Sunt tria, sunt & idem, Fons, ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto IV (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Inammoration.ARGUMENT. O, DEUS, aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab Igne! Aut solo caleat Pectus ab Igne Tui! Languet ut ...
Sister Songs-An Offering To Two Sisters – Part The First (Francis Thompson Poems)
The leaves dance, the leaves sing,The leaves dance in the breath of the Spring.I bid them dance,I bid them sing,For ...
The History Of Joseph: A Poem In Ten Books. Book IV. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
Mean while thro' savage woods, and deserts vast, The captive with his Midian masters past. At last rich Egypt's pleasant ...
The Coming Of Winter (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Poems)
_Stanzas from "Onegin"_Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer,Than Southern Winter scarce more bland--Is undeniably withdrawingOn fleeting footsteps from the land.Soon will ...
The Rider (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
I draw a-near you in your sleeping city,Who, in mine ancient freedom,Knew neither loss nor scant;Who hunted even as he ...
In A Time Of Dearth (Amy Lowell Poems)
Before me,On either side of me,I see sand.If I turn the corner of my house,I see sand,Long, brownLines and levels ...
The Royal Mummy to Bohemia (Charles Warren Stoddard Poems)
"WHEREFORE these revels that my dull eyes greet? These dancers, dancing at my fleshless feet; The harpers, harping vainly at ...
The Year Outgrows the Spring (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
The year outgrows the spring it thought so sweet,And clasps the summer with a new delight,Yet wearied, leaves her languors ...
Dogwood Blossoms (George Marion McClellan Poems)
To dreamy languors and the violet mistOf early Spring, the deep sequestered valeGives first her paling-blue Miamimist,Where blithely pours the ...
The Dying African (Frank Sayers Poems)
On my toil-wither'd limbs sickly languors are shed,And the dark mists of death o'er my eye-lids are spread;Before my last ...
Alexandrines (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Knowing the weariness of dreams, and days, and nights,The great and grievous vanity of joy and pain;Frail loves that pass, ...
Duality (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Thy soul is like a secret garden-close,Where roots of cleft rnandragoras enwreathe;Where bergamot and fumitory breathe,And ivy winds its tower ...