Our Profession (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an art in our profession, Which cannot be wholly learned From all books in our possession, Though their leaves be deftly turned Till ...
Poems about outweighs (20 Poems)
Festus – XII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
All man's acts,Serious or trivial, all man's thoughts perchancePass not unmarked of angel eye, or God's.We know in daytime there ...
Paraphrases From Scriptures. (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared thelight and the sun.Thou hast set all the ...
Lucifer (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The World sweeps by! It is the end of Time!Nay, not the end, for Time can have no end:A cycle ...
The Three Urns (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LIST to an Arab parable, whereinThe beauty of the Orient fancy shrinesA star-like truth, the iconoclastic WestIs blind to see, ...
Somebody’s (John Hartley Poems)
Oh, isn't it nice to be somebody's?-- Somebody's darling and pet,To be shrined in the heart of a dear one, Whose absence ...
A Complaint On The Miseries Of Life (James Thomson Poems)
I loathe, O Lord, this life below,And all its fading fleeting joys;'Tis a short space that's fill'd with woe,Which all ...
Giving And Taking (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Who gives and hides the giving hand,Nor counts on favor, fame, or praise,Shall find his smallest gift outweighsThe burden of ...
Vii. _to luigi del riccio._ (Michelangelo Buonarroti Poems)
Nel dolce d' una.It happens that the sweet unfathomed sea Of seeming courtesy sometimes doth hide Offence to life and honour. This ...
Friendship (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
A ruddy drop of manly bloodThe surging sea outweighs,The world uncertain comes and goes;The lover rooted stays.I fancied he was ...
Bed-Rock (John Oxenham Poems)
I have been tried,Tried in the fire,And I say this,As the result of dire distress,And tribulation sore--That a man's happiness ...
The Lady Of La Garaye – Part IV (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
SILENT old gateway! whose two columns stand Like simple monuments on either hand; No trellised iron-work, with pleasant view Of ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto II (Albert Pike Poems)
The silver horn of the advancing tide Had ploughed its highest furrow in the sand, And was retiring. Noon, with ...
A Child’s Hymn (Charles Dickens Poems)
Hear my prayer, O heavenly Father, Ere I lay me down to sleep; ...
Sonnet XIX: The Soul’s Rialto (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise; I barter curl for curl upon that mart, And from my poet's forehead to ...
My Eye is fuller than my vase (Emily Dickinson Poem)
My Eye is fuller than my vase -- Her Cargo -- is of Dew -- And still -- my Heart ...
A few kind words (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
A few kind words, what can be bought with that? In essence just a clique of tidy prose, a verb, ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
The Touchstone (William Allingham Poem)
A man there came, whence none could tell, Bearing a Touchstone in his hand; And tested all things in the ...
Sonnet 19 – The soul’s Rialto hath its merchandise (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
XIX The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise; I barter curl for curl upon that mart, And from my poet's forehead ...