Fantasia (Duncan Campbell Scott Poems)
Here in Samarcand they offer emeralds,Pure as frozen drops of sea-water,Rubies, pale as dew-ponds stained with slaughter,Where the fairies fought ...
Poems about mats (19 Poems)
Intangible Tigers (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a moral in this: tho' I own that the preaching Of moral and maxim in season and outGrows stale; ...
Curios (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I've 'ad, said Dan, "a sight o' curios,But where they've gone, Lord knows!The junk I've packed around, alive an' dead,The ...
Autumn Frost (Boris Pasternak Poems)
The morning sun shows like a pillarOf fire through smoke on frosty days.As on a faulty snap, it cannotMake out ...
There Is A Proper Way For Doing Everything (Confucius Poems)
In hewing an axe-shaft, how must you act? Another axe take, or you'll never succeed. In taking a wife, ...
To My Wife (Bai JuYi Poems)
I often sigh over my long white hair.My woman shares my sorrow.She patches up winter clothes under the lampwhile our ...
Essential Beauty (Philip Larkin Poem)
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen ...
Hiawatha’s Wooing (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
"As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, ...
The Song of Hiawatha: X (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
X. Hiawatha's Wooing "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, ...
The Ballad of the King’s Jest (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
When spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the ...
Meg Merrilies (John Keats Poem)
Old Meg she was a Gipsy, And liv'd upon the Moors: Her bed it was the brown heath turf, And ...
Full Moon (Tu Fu Poem)
Above the tower -- a lone, twice-sized moon. On the cold river passing night-filled homes, It scatters restless gold across ...
Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River (Tu Fu Poem)
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable, And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy. I look up our southern ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
What does it take? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
The Gardener LXIV: I Spent My Day (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
I spent my day on the scorching hot dust of the road. Now, in the cool of the evening, I ...
The Land of the Exile (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Mother, the light has grown grey in the sky; I do not know what the time is. There is no ...
Counter-Attack (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
We'd gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, ...
Balloons (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Since Christmas they have lived with us, Guileless and clear, Oval soul-animals, Taking up half the space, Moving and rubbing ...