The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Poems about material (28 Poems)
Natural Theology (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Primitive I ate my fill of a whale that died And stranded after a month at sea. . . . ...
Giffen’s Debt (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
penelope (Rg Gregory Poem)
name meaning thread weaver or duck (these may be guesses from obscurity) ten-year faithful wife whilst her husband was gallivanting ...
Material Wealth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
From before Christ's time maybe back to Cain and Abel wanting to have maybe even the garden the fall itself ...
Hope in God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our hope in God not in material wealth not in the things we have but in what God gives His ...
Not coveting possessions (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the brother's question something of his heart wanting his brother's portion the inheritance he was given as if it ...
Other Wealth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They were living, pursuing seeking after other wealth not the material trappings of life not holding back, giving all selling ...
Obstacles to Grace (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Alienation is our separation from God and Man Loving ourselves more than God Ignoring God's call for our lives Envy, ...
The Hippopotamus (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros autem, ut ...
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One need not be a Chamber -- to be Haunted -- One need not be a House -- The Brain ...
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 ...
The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Dharma (Billy Collins Poem)
The way the dog trots out the front door every morning without a hat or an umbrella, without any money ...
Self-Portrait At 28 (David Berman Poem)
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
231. Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Robert Burns Poem)
WHEN Nature her great master-piece design'd, And fram'd her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all ...
Syringa (John Ashbery Poem)
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing (Margaret Atwood Poem)
The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. ...
Three Women (Sylvia Plath Poems)
A Poem for Three Voices Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about FIRST VOICE: I am slow as the world. ...
An Appearance (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The smile of iceboxes annihilates me. Such blue currents in the veins of my loved one! I hear her great ...
Berck-Plage (Sylvia Plath Poems)
(1) This is the sea, then, this great abeyance. How the sun's poultice draws on my inflammation. Electrifyingly-colored sherbets, scooped ...
Very Like a Whale (Ogden Nash Poems)
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by the authors of ...
Al Aaraaf (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Davis Matlock (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Suppose it is nothing but the hive: That there are drones and workers And queens, and nothing but storing honey ...
Poetry (Marianne Moore Poems)
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect ...