An Elegie, or Friends Passion, for His Astrophel (Matthew Roydon Poems)
As then, no winde at all there blew,No swelling cloude accloid the aire:The skie, like glasse of watchet hew,Reflected Phoebus' ...
Poems about personage (21 Poems)
Thoughts At A Vestibule (Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov Poems)
Here's a vestibule. On holidaysOvercome by slavish fear,The whole population, in a state of awe,Rushes to the sacred doors.Having left ...
Virgidemariu (Joseph Hall Poems)
With some pot-fury, ravish'd from their wit, They sit and muse on some no-vulgar writ: As frozen dunghills in a winter's morn, That ...
De Sauty (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUEThe first messages received through the submarine cablewere sent by an electrical expert, a mysterious personagewho signed himself ...
Virgidemarium (excerpt) (Joseph Hall Poems)
With some pot-fury, ravish'd from their wit,They sit and muse on some no-vulgar writ:As frozen dunghills in a winter's morn,That ...
The Pebble And The Acorn (Hannah Flagg Gould Poems)
"I am a Pebble! and yield to none!"Were swelling words of a tiny stone,"Nor time nor season can alter me;I ...
Man To Man (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
Yes, man to man is so unjustUntil we know not whom to trust;For we have made of life a lie,In ...
A Maiden’s Ideal Husband (Henry Carey Poems)
Genteel in personage,Conduct, and equipage,Noble by heritage,Generous and free:Brave, not romantic;Learned, not pedantic;Frolic, not frantic;This must he be.Honor maintaining,Meanness disdaining,Still ...
Humanity’s Stream. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare,Within a city's confines, where were metAll classes and conditions, and surveyed,From a secluded niche ...
On A Picture Of The Finding Of Moses By Pharoah’s Daughter (Charles Lamb Poems)
This picture does the story expressOf Moses in the bulrushes.How livelily the painter's handBy colours makes us understand!Moses that little ...
Jesus Began to Weep (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We heard a story, a very personal, very public story of the friend who died, the friends who didn't understand ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
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, ...
The Improvisatore (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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 ...
Rudiger – A Ballad (Robert Southey Poems)
Author Note: Divers Princes and Noblemen being assembled in a beautiful and fair Palace, which was situate upon the river ...
Rembrandt to Rembrandt (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5 (Alexander Pope Poems)
She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears. In vain Thalestris ...
The Bee Meeting (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers---- The rector, the midwife, the sexton, ...