Evolutionary Hymn (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future's endless stair; Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us. For stagnation ...
Poems about plato (31 Poems)
Where’s the Poet? (John Keats Poems)
Where's the Poet? show him! show him, Muses nine! that I may know him. 'Tis the man who with a ...
An Ancient To Ancients (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, The floors are sunken, cobwebs hang, And cracks creep; worms have ...
The Lion For Real (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
De Amicitiis (Eugene Field Poem)
Though care and strife Elsewhere be rife, Upon my word I do not heed 'em; In bed I lie With ...
Fuck Me (Maggie Estep Poem)
FUCK ME I'm all screwed up so FUCK ME. FUCK ME and take out the garbage feed the cat and ...
The Naming Of Cats (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at ...
Essay On The Personal (Stephen Dunn Poem)
Because finally the personal is all that matters, we spend years describing stones, chairs, abandoned farmhouses- until we're ready. Always ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Echoes From the Greek Mythology (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I - STARLIGHT With two bright eyes, my star, my love, Thou lookest on the stars above: Ah, would that ...
A precious — mouldering pleasure — ’tis (Emily Dickinson Poems)
A precious -- mouldering pleasure -- 'tis -- To meet an Antique Book -- In just the Dress his Century ...
They Should Have Provided (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
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, ...
Fame’s Penny-Trumpet (Lewis Carroll Poems)
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
An Invitation (Thomas Blackburn Poem)
Holding with shaking hands a letter from some Official - high up he says in the Ministry, I note that ...
304. Song-I Murder hate (Robert Burns Poems)
I MURDER hate by flood or field, Tho' glory's name may screen us; In wars at home I'll spend my ...
The Song of Los (William Blake Poems)
AFRICA I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: He sung it to four harps at the ...
Stepping Backward (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Good-by to you whom I shall see tomorrow, Next year and when I'm fifty; still good-by. This is the leave ...
Totem (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The engine is killing the track, the track is silver, It stretches into the distance. It will be eaten nevertheless. ...
THE MAN WITH THE HOE (Edwin Markham Poems)
BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages ...
Lines To Be Embroidered On A Bib (Ogden Nash Poems)
OR The Child Is Father Of The Man, But Not For Quite A While So Thomas Edison Never drank his ...
John Cabanis (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Neither spite, fellow citizens, Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness, And the lawlessness and waste Under democracy's rule in Spoon River ...
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Judson Stoddard (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
On a mountain top above the clouds That streamed like a sea below me I said that peak is the ...
Ode To The Johns Hopkins University (Sidney Lanier Poems)
How tall among her sisters, and how fair, -- How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair As dawn, 'mid wrinkled ...
The Symphony (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...