In The Half-Way House (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IAt twenty we fancied the blest Middle Ages A spirited cross of romantic and grand,All templars and minstrels and ladies and ...
Poems about likened (21 Poems)
Song I (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Dear people, swelled in fool's wisdomAnd clinging to error so fanciful,To the skies, adorned in hosts of fair stars,Look up ...
God, Whom Shall I Compare To Thee? (Yehudah HaLevi Poems)
God, whom shall I compare to Thee,When Thou to none canst likened be?Under what image shall I dareTo picture Thee, ...
The complaynt of a sinner (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Like as the theefe in prison cast, With wofull wayling mones,When hope of pardon cleane is past, And sighes with dolefull grones:So ...
The Ash (John Freeman Poems)
The undecaying yew has shed his flowersLong since in golden showers.The elm has robed her heightIn green, and hangs maternal ...
The Light on the Wreck (Henry Lawson Poems)
Out there by the rocks, at the end of the bank,In the mouth of the river, the Wanderer sank.She is ...
Away (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I cannot say, and I will not sayThat he is dead--. He is just away!With a cheery smile, and a ...
In A Pass of Bavaria (Richard Chenevix Trench Poems)
A sound of many waters!--now I knowTo what was likened the large utterance sentBy Him who mid the golden lampads ...
A Comparison (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I THINK, ofttimes, that lives of men may beLikened to wandering winds that come and go,Not knowing whence they rise, ...
Remembrance (Su Tung-po Poems)
To what can our life on earth be likened?To a flock of geese,alighting on the snow.Sometimes leaving a trace of ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.When the marriage was completed,When the many guests had feasted,At the wedding of the Northland,At the Dismal-land carousal,Spake ...
Light (George MacDonald Poems)
First-born of the creating Voice!Minister of God's Spirit, who wast sentWaiting upon him first, what time he wentMoving about mid ...
The Suicide’s Grave (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
This is the scene of a man's despair, and a soul's release From the difficult traits of the flesh; so, ...
Wedlock (Benjamin Franklin Poems)
Wedlock as old men note, hath likened been, Unto a public crowd or common rout; Where those that are without ...
Peter Anderson And Co. (Henry Lawson Poem)
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
The Deserted Garden (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I mind me in the days departed, How often underneath the sun With childish bounds I used to run To ...
The Last Tournament (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
To What Shall I Compare Her? (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
TO what shall I compare her, That is as fair as she? For she is fairer - fairer Than the ...
Necrological (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
The friar had said his paternosters duly And scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept; But with much riddling ...
Gin (Philip Levine Poems)
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...