ORPHEUS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Orpheus he went, as poets tell, To fetch Eurydice from hell; And had her, but it was upon This short, ...
Poems about obscurity (21 Poems)
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 ...
avalanche (Rg Gregory Poem)
all is still on this starless night the mountain waits quiescent as a cat smoothing crag and chasm to a ...
A Lover’s Call XXVII (Khalil Gibran Poems)
Where are you, my beloved? Are you in that little Paradise, watering the flowers who look upon you As infants ...
Sonnet X: To Nothing Fitter (Michael Drayton Poem)
To nothing fitter can I thee compare Than to the son of some rich penny-father, Who, having now brought on ...
Churchill’s Grave (Lord Byron Poems)
I stood beside the grave of him who blazed The comet of a season, and I saw The humblest of ...
Instans Tyrannus (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Of the million or two, more or less, I rule and possess, One man, for some cause undefined, Was ...
To Nobodaddy (William Blake Poems)
Why art thou silent & invisible Father of jealousy Why dost thou hide thyself in clouds From every searching Eye ...
A March in the Ranks, Hard-prest. (Walt Whitman Poems)
A MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown; A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in ...
My Felisberto (Edward Taylor Poems)
My felisberto is handsomer than your mergotroid, although, admittedly, your mergotroid may be the wiser of the two. Whereas your ...
OXFORD ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY’ (Barry Tebb Poems)
To Simon Jenner NO ARMITAGE (I'd like to see his rage) NO DUHIG (one dig long overdue) NO GREENLAW (M ...
Closed Path (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power,---that the path before ...
My Felisberto (James Tate Poems)
My felisberto is handsomer than your mergotroid, although, admittedly, your mergotroid may be the wiser of the two. Whereas your ...
Privacy (Robert William Service Poems)
Oh you who are shy of the popular eye, (Though most of us seek to survive it) Just think of ...
Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour (Wallace Stevens Poems)
Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The ...
Merlin (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
Alma Mater (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
He knocked, and I beheld him at the door-- A vision for the gods to verify. "What battered ancient is ...
Old Trails (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
(WASHINGTON SQUARE) I met him, as one meets a ghost or two, Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel. ...
Full Fathom Five (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Old man, you surface seldom. Then you come in with the tide's coming When seas wash cold, foam- Capped: white ...
Cat’s Dream (Pablo Neruda Poems)
How neatly a cat sleeps, Sleeps with its paws and its posture, Sleeps with its wicked claws, And with its ...
Blue (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
The earth again like a ship steams out of the dark sea over The edge of the blue, and the ...