Divina Commedia (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
Poems about pathetic (27 Poems)
Delicatessen (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Why is that wanton gossip Fame So dumb about this man's affairs? Why do we titter at his name Who ...
The Cathedral of Rheims (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(From the French of Emile Verhaeren) He who walks through the meadows of Champagne At noon in Fall, when leaves ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: August (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Silence again. The glorious symphony Hath need of pause and interval of peace. Some subtle signal bids all sweet sounds ...
Faithless Nelly Gray (Thomas Hood Poem)
A Pathetic Ballad Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his ...
The Lacking Sense Scene.–A sad-coloured landscape, Waddon Vale (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours, As of one who all unwittingly has wounded ...
The Bear (Robert Frost Poem)
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
The Sudden Light And The Trees (Stephen Dunn Poem)
My neighbor was a biker, a pusher, a dog and wife beater. In bad dreams I killed him and once, ...
The most pathetic thing I do (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The most pathetic thing I do Is play I hear from you -- I make believe until my Heart Almost ...
The Hollows round His eager Eyes (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Hollows round His eager Eyes Were Pages where to read Pathetic Histories -- although Himself had not complained. Biography ...
Further in Summer than the Birds (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be ...
‘Twas later when the summer went (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Twas later when the summer went Than when the Cricket came -- And yet we knew that gentle Clock Meant ...
It seldom snowed, they said – Part I (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
The Great Western Plains (Hart Crane Poem)
The little voices of the prairie dogs Are tireless . . . They will give three hurrahs Alike to stage, ...
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 ...
83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night (Robert Burns Poems)
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
55. The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie (Robert Burns Poems)
O A' ye pious godly flocks, Weel fed on pastures orthodox, Wha now will keep you frae the fox, Or ...
Chorus of Eden Spirits (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
HEARKEN, oh hearken! let your souls behind you Turn, gently moved! Our voices feel along the Dread to find you, ...
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 ...
Departure (Coventry Patmore Poems)
It was not like your great and gracious ways! Do you, that have naught other to lament, Never, my Love, ...
Who shall deliver me? (Christina Rossetti Poems)
God strengthen me to bear myself; That heaviest weight of all to bear, Inalienable weight of care. All others are ...
Before Sleep (Ezra Pound Poems)
The lateral vibrations caress me, They leap and caress me, They work pathetically in my favour, They seek my financial ...
A Tale of the Sea (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold, Enough to make one's blood run cold; Concerning four fishermen cast ...
The Battle of Corunna (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1808, and in the autumn of the year, Napoleon resolved to crush Spain and Portugal ...
The Death of Fred Marsden, the American Playwright (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A pathetic tragedy I will relate, Concerning poor Fred. Marsden's fate, Who suffocated himself by the fumes of gas, On ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...