nod Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

The Message in the Glass (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

She sat beside me in the chapel this morning as her momma began to preach we were in the back, ...

Quiet (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Quiet in the law school Late at night, after papers, exams Between time Late March, Early April Still halls Empty ...

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Eugene Field Poem)

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,-- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into ...

Dutch lullaby (Eugene Field Poem)

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,-- Sailed on a river of misty light Into ...

Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...

Danse macabre (Ian Emberson Poem)

Death came to me in a mini skirt As skittish as a kitten , And said : " I am ...

Bad Day At The Beauty Salon (Maggie Estep Poem)

I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...

Account Of A Visit From St. Nicholas (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...

The Boston Evening Transcript (T. S. Eliot Poem)

THE READERS of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn. When evening quickens ...

Alexander’s Feast; Or, The Power Of Music (John Dryden Poems)

'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...

Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)

In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...

We should not mind so small a flower (Emily Dickinson Poem)

We should not mind so small a flower -- Except it quiet bring Our little garden that we lost Back ...

Hoping With Care (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

We are honored and humble and earnest to share in events which would happen although we weren't there, a trifling ...

To the Ladies. (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)

WIFE and servant are the same, But only differ in the name : For when that fatal knot is ty'd, ...

The Human Tree (G. K. Chesterton Poem)

Many have Earth's lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: Yea, the ...

Gold Leaves (G. K. Chesterton Poem)

Lo! I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold; Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out The ...

The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)

'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...

Hexameters (Samuel Coleridge Poem)

William, my teacher, my friend ! dear William and dear Dorothea ! Smooth out the folds of my letter, and ...

The Lime-tree Bower my Prison [Addressed to Charles Lamb, o (Samuel Coleridge Poem)

Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...

This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison (Samuel Coleridge Poem)

Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...

Phantasmagoria CANTO VI ( Dyscomfyture ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)

As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...

To the Fringed Gentian (William Cullen Bryant Poem)

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds ...

Summer Wind (William Cullen Bryant Poem)

It is a sultry day; the sun has drank The dew that lay upon the morning grass, There is no ...

Contemplations (Anne Bradstreet Poem)

1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...

Senlin: His Dark Origins (Conrad Aiken Poem)

1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...

Senlin: His Futile Preoccupations (Conrad Aiken Poem)