The Idol-Maker Prays (Caroline Giltinan Poems)
Great god whom I shall carve from this gray stoneWherein thou liest, hid to all but me,Grant thou that when ...
Poems about liest (21 Poems)
A Cradle Song (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
Husha-husha-bye! In a lamb's skinI shall wrap thee warm, Lest the winds break in.I shall pillow ...
after five (E. E. Cummings Poems)
after fivetimes the poemof thy remembrancesurprises with refrainof unreasoning summerthat by respondingways cloaked with renewalmy body turns towardtheeagain for the ...
From Sappho (Digby Mackworth Dolben Poems)
Thou liest dead,—lie on: of theeNo sweet remembrances shall be,Who never plucked Pierian rose,Who never chanced on Anter?s.Unknown, unnoticed, there ...
THE DIRGE OF JEPHTHAH’S DAUGHTER:SUNG BY THE VIRGINS (Robert Herrick Poems)
O thou, the wonder of all days! O paragon, and pearl of praise! O Virgin-martyr, ever blest Above the rest ...
THE WIDOWS’ TEARS; OR, DIRGE OF DORCAS (Robert Herrick Poems)
Come pity us, all ye who see Our harps hung on the willow-tree; Come pity us, ye passers-by, Who see ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
Abu midjan (Eugene Field Poem)
When Father Time swings round his scythe, Entomb me 'neath the bounteous vine, So that its juices, red and blithe, ...
Fate (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught ...
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 ...
And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair (Lord Byron Poem)
And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth; And form so soft, and charms so ...
To Thyrza: And Thou Art Dead (Lord Byron Poem)
And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth; And form so soft and charm so ...
Ravenna (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue (Henry Vaughan Poems)
BODY 1 Farewell! I go to sleep; but when 2 The day-star springs, I'll wake again. SOUL 3 Go, sleep ...
The Timber (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Pass'd o'er thy head; many ...
Guinevere (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire) (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
SHALL I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, Brother, on this that was the veil of thee? Or ...
Siena (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
June Dreams, In January (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...