Epistle To My Brother George (John Keats Poem)
Full many a dreary hour have I past, My brain bewildered, and my mind o'ercast With heaviness; in seasons when ...
Poems about moral (31 Poems)
we say (Rg Gregory Poem)
we say blame the teachers don't we send our young to school to be taught the simple rules for decent ...
Here May the Tempted Find Help (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We all are tempted in this life, a coarseness, a selfishness pervades the age the world says all is acceptable, ...
A Soul Set Free (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A new and perfect body has entered into paradise a soul has left this struggle and entered eternal rest a ...
The Verb of Lent (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
More than a noun, a period of time, forty days each year, between Ash Wednesday, and the joy of Easter ...
The Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
The Dream Called Life (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca A dream it was in which I found myself. And you ...
Abraham to kill him — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Abraham to kill him -- Was distinctly told -- Isaac was an Urchin -- Abraham was old -- Not a ...
Benefit of doubt (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
Drug Trial (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I Everyone has their own peculiar price, not quantifiable in currency. When my hypodermic grazed your vein, you confessed yours. ...
A Hermit Thrush (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
Gregory Corso (Gregory Corso Poem)
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Preface to Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
The Letter (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move ! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha (Robert Browning Poem)
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
257. Ode on the Departed Regency Bill (Robert Burns Poem)
DAUGHTER of Chaos' doting years, Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, Whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (The rights of ...
My Philosophy of Life (John Ashbery Poem)
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
Essay on Man (Alexander Pope Poems)
The First Epistle Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
An Epitaph (Matthew Prior Poems)
Interr'd beneath this marble stone, Lie saunt'ring Jack and idle Joan. While rolling threescore years and one Did round this ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
Learning by Doing (Howard Nemerov Poems)
They're taking down a tree at the front door, The power saw is snarling at some nerves, Whining at others. ...
Robert Burns (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Immortal Robert Burns of Ayr, There's but few poets can with you compare; Some of your poems and songs are ...
Rev. Lemuel Wiley (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I preached four thousand sermons, I conducted forty revivals, And baptized many converts. Yet no deed of mine Shines brighter ...
Dire Cure (William Matthews Poems)
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...
Campo di Fiori (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
In Rome on the Campo di Fiori Baskets of olives and lemons, Cobbles spattered with wine And the wreckage of ...