Others, I Am Not the First (A. E. Housman Poem)
Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst: If in the breathless night I too ...
Poems about lastly (28 Poems)
TO HIS SAVIOUR, A CHILD;A PRESENT, BY A CHILD (Robert Herrick Poem)
Go, pretty child, and bear this flower Unto thy little Saviour; And tell him, by that bud now blown, He ...
FOUR THINGS MAKE US HAPPY HERE (Robert Herrick Poem)
Health is the first good lent to men; A gentle disposition then: Next, to be rich by no by-ways; Lastly, ...
THE SUCCESSION OF THE FOUR SWEET MONTHS (Robert Herrick Poem)
First, April, she with mellow showers Opens the way for early flowers; Then after her comes smiling May, In a ...
To Perilla (Robert Herrick Poem)
Ah, my Perilla, dost thou grieve to see Me day by day to steal away from thee? Age calls me ...
Divination By A Daffodil (Robert Herrick Poem)
When a daffodil I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may what I must be: First, I ...
His Immortality (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I I saw a dead man's finer part Shining within each faithful heart Of those bereft. Then said I: "This ...
Reach Out (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
God is beside us invisible until we look for him there walking with us each day of our lives Quietly ...
Sonnet XXXVI: Thou Purblind Boy (Michael Drayton Poem)
Cupid Conjured Thou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack To wound her heart, whose eyes have wounded me, ...
Sonnet LI: Calling to Mind (Michael Drayton Poem)
Calling to mind, since first my love begun, Th'uncertain times oft varying in their course, How things still unexpectedly have ...
Idea LI: Calling to mind since first my love begun (Michael Drayton Poem)
Calling to mind since first my love begun, Th' incertain times oft varying in their course, How things still unexpectedly ...
A prayer to the Wind (Thomas Carew Poem)
Go thou gentle whispering wind, Bear this sigh; and if thou find Where my cruel fair doth rest, Cast it ...
The Improvisatore (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
171. Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech’s Absence (Robert Burns Poems)
AULD chuckie Reekie's 1 sair distrest, Down droops her ance weel burnish'd crest, Nae joy her bonie buskit nest Can ...
258. Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner (Robert Burns Poems)
AULD comrade dear, and brither sinner, How's a' the folk about Glenconner? How do you this blae eastlin wind, That's ...
80. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata (Robert Burns Poems)
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
75. Halloween (Robert Burns Poems)
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...
112. A Dream (Robert Burns Poems)
GUID-MORNIN' to our Majesty! May Heaven augment your blisses On ev'ry new birth-day ye see, A humble poet wishes. My ...
An Island (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Now Listen to Me and I’ll Tell You My Views (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Now listen to me and I'll tell you my views concerning the African war, And the man who upholds any ...
To my son (John Matthew Poems)
You will realize this wisdom, When you are my age, and experience, Gained from being in vexing situations, Yet, being ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
From ‘Arcades’ (John Milton Poems)
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Lycidas (John Milton Poems)
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
A Florida Sunday. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...