Apology Of Genius (Mina Loy Poems)
Ostracized as we are with GodThe watchers of the civilized wastesreverse their signals on our track Lepers of the moonall magically ...
Poems about mockeries (21 Poems)
The Dance Of The Seven Sins (Arthur Symons Poems)
THE BODY Call in the dancers. THE SOUL All is vain. We live, and living is the pain We die ...
The Light of Asia: Book the Fourth (Edwin Arnold Poems)
But when the days were numbered, then befellThe parting of our Lord — which was to be —Whereby came wailing ...
Xantippe(A Fragment) (Amy Levy Poems)
What, have I waked again? I never thoughtTo see the rosy dawn, or ev'n this grey, Dull, solemn stillness, ere ...
Winter-Store (Archibald Lampman Poems)
Subtly conscious, all awake,Let us clear our eyes, and breakThrough the cloudy chrysalis,See the wonder as it is.Down a narrow ...
Ned Connor (Charles Harpur Poems)
'TWAS night-and where a watery sound Came moaning up the Flat,Six rude and bearded stockmen round Their blazing ...
Five Critcisms (Alfred Noyes Poems)
I.(_On many recent novels by the conventional unconventionalists_.)Old Pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich, After grim years of soul-destroying greed,Weds Columbine, ...
Dreams Of Beauty (Adah Isaacs Menken Poems)
Visions of Beauty, of Light, and of Love,Born in the soul of a Dream,Lost, like the phantom-bird under the dove,When ...
We Live In A Very Strange World (Charles Swain Poems)
How often our hopes have been givenTo things that but mockeries be,As the hills that seem touching on heavenAre just ...
Sonnet CLXXXVII: “Climb glory’s ladder to the topmost height” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Climb glory's ladder to the topmost height, Rifle the treasures of the jealous land, In gold and purple take thy ...
Comfort (Archibald Lampman Poems)
Comfort the sorrowful with watchful eyesIn silence, for the tongue cannot avail.Vex not his wounds with rhetoric, nor the staleWorn ...
A Confession To A Friend In Trouble (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less Here, far away, than when I tarried near; I even smile ...
Hexameters (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
William, my teacher, my friend ! dear William and dear Dorothea ! Smooth out the folds of my letter, and ...
The Palace of Humbug (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
The Last Tournament (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
The Cat With Wings (Robert William Service Poems)
You never saw a cat with wings, I'll bet a dollar -- well, I did; 'Twas one of those fantastic ...
For A Lady Who Must Write Verse (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Unto seventy years and seven, Hide your double birthright well- You, that are the brat of Heaven And the pampered ...
Anthem For Doomed Youth (Wilfred Owen Poems)
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid ...
Edmund Pollard (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I would I had thrust my hands of flesh Into the disk-flowers bee-infested, Into the mirror-like core of fire Of ...
The Black Unicorn (Audre Lorde Poems)
The black unicorn is greedy. The black unicorn is impatient. 'The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symbol ...