Delicatessen (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Why is that wanton gossip Fame So dumb about this man's affairs? Why do we titter at his name Who ...
Poems about longs (29 Poems)
To Homer (John Keats Poem)
Standing aloof in giant ignorance, Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades, As one who sits ashore and longs ...
Oh fair enough are sky and plain (A. E. Housman Poem)
Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the ...
The Iron Gate (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
WHERE is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? Not unfamiliar to my ear his name, Nor yet unknown to many ...
THE YOUTH AND THE MILLSTREAM. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[This sweet Ballad, and the one entitled The Maid of the Mill's Repentance, were written on the occasion of a ...
SIR CURT’S WEDDING-JOURNEY. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing, Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast, To his mistress' home repairing, There to hold his ...
Good and Evil XXII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
And one of the elders of the city said, "Speak to us of Good and Evil." And he answered: Of ...
Baby Bird (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
Ever feel like a baby bird in a tree? Eyes newly opened he can barely see. With his mother away ...
When Can I Come Home (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
When will it be over? When can I go home? The days are getting longer, And the nights are growing ...
The Way of Christ (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In that moment, in that flash of light the voice of Christ calling to us on that dusty road leading ...
Sanctifying (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
growing in faith, in piety, in response to the cleansing grace of conversion living in grace, steps one at a ...
Late Spring (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Why the sweet Spring delays, And where she hides, -- ...
Jesus Hasting to Suffer (William Cowper Poem)
The Saviour, what a noble flame Was kindled in his breast, When hasting to Jerusalem, He march'd before the rest. ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Rainbow (II) (Michael Burch Poem)
You made us hopeful, LORD; where is your Hope when every lovely Rainbow bright and chill reflects your Will? You ...
California Plush (Frank Bidart Poem)
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
Evening Solace (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, ...
Le Verbe ?tre (Andre Breton Poem)
Je connais le d?sespoir dans ses grandes lignes. Le d?sespoir n'a pas d'ailes, il ne se tient pas n?cessairement ? ...
Benediction (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
When, by decree of the supreme power, The Poet appears in this annoyed world, His mother, blasphemous out of horror ...
Spleen (IV) (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle Sur l'esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis, Et que ...
Rhénane d’Automne (Guillaume Apollinaire Poems)
Mon verre est plein d'un vin trembleur comme une flamme Ecoutez la chanson lente d'un batelier Qui raconte avoir vu ...
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (Christina Rossetti Poems)
1 Lo d? che han detto a' dolci amici addio. - Dante Amor, con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci! - ...
Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery (William Morris Poems)
It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six ...
The Defence of Guenevere (William Morris Poems)
But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand ...
Jonathan Houghton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
There is the caw of a crow, And the hesitant song of a thrush. There is the tinkle of a ...
The Village Garden (Amy Levy Poems)
To E.M.S. Here, where your garden fenced about and still is, Here, where the unmoved summer air is sweet With ...
Remo: “Drink, Drink, Drink” (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
At Quattro Gatti, she is the poet-in-residence: In Barcelona, Piccasso started here, painting A humble sketch of a picket-white fence. ...
Outcast (Claude McKay Poems)
For the dim regions whence my fathers came My spirit, bondaged by the body, longs. Words felt, but never heard, ...
Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THE LION The Lion is a kingly beast. He likes a Hindu for a feast. And if no Hindu ...