Loon Point (Amy Lowell Poem)
Softly the water ripples Against the canoe's curving side, Softly the birch trees rustle Flinging over us branches wide. Softly ...
Poems about legends (31 Poems)
Something Left Undone (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun. By ...
Voices Of the Night (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
PRELUDE. Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, ...
Introduction To The Song Of Hiawatha (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the ...
Prelude (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene. Where, ...
The Spirit of Poetry (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
There is a quiet spirit in these woods, That dwells where'er the gentle south-wind blows; Where, underneath the white-thorn, in ...
Song of the Fifth River (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"The Treasure and the Low"--Puck of Pook's Hills. Where first by Eden Tree The Four Great Rivers ran, To each ...
The Native-Born (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
The Legend of Mirth (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
The English Flag (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
The Ballad of the King’s Jest (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
When spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the ...
The Eve Of St. Agnes (John Keats Poem)
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
Frederick Douglass (Robert Hayden Poem)
When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable ...
haunting the quark (Rg Gregory Poem)
(I) if you can't scientifically explain it dawkins says it has no value - some hope inside the mechanical framework ...
Sailing Barges off Southend (Adrian Green Poem)
Drifting on a tide from long ago, They swing at anchor silently Wreathed in early morning mist, Like ghosts grown ...
The Triumph Of Achilles (Louise Gluck Poem)
In the story of Patroclus no one survives, not even Achilles who was nearly a god. Patroclus resembled him; they ...
They talk as slow as Legends grow (Emily Dickinson Poem)
They talk as slow as Legends grow No mushroom is their mind But foliage of sterility Too stolid for the ...
Touched my family (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
Being old in the game (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It was a half-life that seemed like a genuine world wielding hard symbolism over those who ruled it; we lived ...
The Triumph Of Achilles (Paul Celan Poem)
In the story of Patroclus no one survives, not even Achilles who was nearly a god. Patroclus resembled him; they ...
The Friar’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
A youth in apparel that glittered (Stephen Crane Poem)
A youth in apparel that glittered Went to walk in a grim forest. There he met an assassin Attired all ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Ode to H.H. The Nizam Of Hyderabad (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
DEIGN, Prince, my tribute to receive, This lyric offering to your name, Who round your jewelled scepter bind The lilies ...
St. Senanus and the Lady (Thomas Moore Poems)
St. Senanus "On! haste, and leave this sacred isle, Unholy bark, ere morning smile; For on thy deck, though dark ...
I Sing The Body Electric (Philip Levine Poems)
People sit numbly at the counter waiting for breakfast or service. Today it's Hartford, Connecticut more than twenty-five years after ...
The Prarie Battlements (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect) HERE upon the prarie Is our ancestral hall. Agate is the dome, Cornelian ...