Immortal Eve – I (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1I the first man, the majestyOf creatures, Time's tall birth,Spring at God's finger-touch erect,Glorying upon earth.Above me the blue solemn ...
Poems about loftiness (21 Poems)
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
The Mosque Of Cordoba (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
The succession of day and nightIs the architect of events.The succession of day and nightIs the fountain-head of life and ...
Vignette – XXVI (Matilda Betham Poems)
ELEGY ON EDWARD BETHAM,_Lost in the Duchess of Gordon East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope_. --------Lovely as are the ...
The Metaphysical Sectarian (Samuel Butler Poems)
HE was in Logick a great Critick,Profoundly skill'd in Analytick.He could distinguish, and divideA Hair 'twixt South and South-West side:On ...
To My Georgie (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
MY cousin, I am gazing on thee now,And well I mark, with soul of joy and pride,The changing beauty of ...
Solitude (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Had I but lived when music-loving PanStill played his flute amid the whispering reeds,When through Arcadian groves the dryads ran,And--symbolizing ...
XXXIX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
A man is he, who is courageous, and whom success attendeth-Who is gentle and affable, unto all people, as long ...
III. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Spring hath returned: the narcissus in the garden wantoneth,And the breeze of the morning, the spikenard disordereth.For five short days, ...
“No, not the moon…” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
No, not the moon, but simple dial-plateIs lightning me, and 'tis my nasty fate,That lights of stars I feel as ...
Royal Prayer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HA, I am the lord of earth! The noble,Who're in my service, love me.Ha, I am the lord of earth! ...
The Abencerrage : Canto II. (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
The Last Banquet Of Antony And Cleopatra (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Thy foes had girt thee with their dead array,O stately Alexandra! — yet the soundOf mirth and music, at the ...
Psalm LXVIII (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
IRise up, Lord,And let Thine enemies be scattered,And let them that hate Thee flee before Thee!As the dispersion of smoke-drift,Thou ...
Antigone (George Meredith Poems)
The buried voice bespake Antigone.'O sister! couldst thou know, as thou wilt know,The bliss above, the reverence below,Enkindled by thy ...
Epilogue–To The Poet’s Sitter (Francis Thompson Poems)
Wherein he excuseth himself for the manner of the Portrait.Alas! now wilt thou chide, and say (I deem),My figured descant ...
A Portrait (Bliss William Carman Poems)
A. M. M.BEHOLD her sitting in the sunThis lovely April morn,As eager with the breath of lifeAs daffodils new-born!A priestess ...
ROYAL PRAYER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
HA, I am the lord of earth! The noble, Who're in my service, love me. Ha, I am the lord ...
Jottings of New York (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Oh, mighty city of New York, you are wonderful to behold-- Your buildings are magnificent-- the truth be it told-- ...
The Revolutionary (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Look at them standing there in authority The pale-faces, As if it could have any effect any more. Pale-face authority, ...
Acknowledgment. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. O Age that half believ'st thou half believ'st, Half doubt'st the substance of thine own half doubt, And, half ...