Festus – III (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Follows a starry nightWhere in the talk of man and spirit we seeForeproven, the all--grasping mind's inordinate loveFor marvels, mysteries, ...
Poems about limitation (13 Poems)
Of Being Numerous (George Oppen Poems)
'Whether, as the intensity of seeing increases, one's distance from Them, the people, does not also increase'I know, of course ...
The Puzzle is no Puzzle (James Merrill Poems)
A card table in the library stands readyTo receive the puzzle which keeps never coming.Daylight shines in or lamplight downUpon ...
On The Character Of God (Patience Worth Poems)
The God which I announce unto my heartIs a proud God. His pride is shown in thePerfection of His labor. ...
Love (Katrina Trask Poems)
O power of Love, O wondrous mystery! How is my dark illumined by thy light, That maketh morning of my ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto I (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
Sotweed redivivus (Benjamin Colman Poems)
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
Lux In Tenebris (George Essex Evans Poems)
When first the Gods, whose Empire is eternal, In Time's deep chalice poured Life's sacred wine,Flashed all the crystal ...
The Egoists (Edith Nesbit Poems)
TWO strangers, from opposing poles,Meet in the torrid zone of Love:And their desire seems set aboveThe limitation of their souls.This ...
Eternal Me (Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman Poems)
What an exceeding rest 'twill beWhen I can leave off being Me!To think of it! - at last be ridOf ...
An Orson Of The Muse (George Meredith Poems)
Her son, albeit the Muse's liveryAnd measured courtly paces rouse his taunts,Naked and hairy in his savage haunts,To Nature only ...
Circe’s Power (Louise Gluck Poems)
I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs; I make them Look like pigs. I'm sick of ...
Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...