Sleep Spaces (Robert Desnos Poem)
In the night there are of course the seven wonders of the world and the greatness tragedy and enchantment. Forests ...
Poems about possess (51 Poems)
Idea XX: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still (Michael Drayton Poem)
An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still, Wherewith, alas, I have been long possess'd, Which ceaseth not to tempt ...
Songs of Joy (William Henry Davies Poem)
Sing out, my soul, thy songs of joy; Sing as a happy bird will sing Beneath a rainbow's lovely arch ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The Heavenly Hills of Holland (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
The heavenly hills of Holland,-- How wondrously they rise Above the smooth green pastures Into the azure skies! With blue ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Confined Love (John Donne Poem)
Some man unworthy to be possessor Of old or new love, himself being false or weak, Thought his pain and ...
The Good-Morrow (John Donne Poem)
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then, But ...
The good Will of a Flower (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The good Will of a Flower The Man who would possess Must first present Certificate Of minted Holiness. (Emily Dickinson)
Satisfaction — is the Agent (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Satisfaction -- is the Agent Of Satiety -- Want -- a quiet Commissary For Infinity. To possess, is past the ...
Opinion is a flitting thing, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Opinion is a flitting thing, But Truth, outlasts the Sun -- If then we cannot own them both -- Possess ...
No Crowd that has occurred (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Crowd that has occurred Exhibit -- I suppose That General Attendance That Resurrection -- does -- Circumference be full ...
He parts Himself — like Leaves — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He parts Himself -- like Leaves -- And then -- He closes up -- Then stands upon the Bonnet Of ...
Dead man’s clothes (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
Growing up, I propose, is like wearing a dead man's clothes. Death has a way of levelling the ground. I ...
Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers (Thomas Carew Poem)
THE Lady Mary Villiers lies Under this stone; with weeping eyes The parents that first gave her birth, And their ...
Song. Mediocrity in love rejected. (Thomas Carew Poem)
GIVE me more love or more disdain ; The torrid or the frozen zone Bring equal ease unto my pain, ...
Mediocrity in Love Rejected (Thomas Carew Poem)
Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid, or the frozen zone, Bring equal ease unto my pain; The ...
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John (Thomas Carew Poems)
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
When Night Comes (Li Ching Chao Poem)
To the tune of "Telling My Most Intimate Feelings" When night comes, I am so flushed with wine, I undo ...
Say not the Struggle Naught availeth (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
SAY not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And ...
The Shrubbery, Written in a Time of Affliction (William Cowper Poem)
Oh happy shades--to me unblest! Friendly to peace, but not to me! How ill the scene that offers rest, And ...
The Narrow Way (William Cowper Poem)
What thousands never knew the road! What thousands hate it when 'tis known! None but the chosen tribes of God ...
True Pleasures (William Cowper Poem)
Lord, my soul with pleasure springs When Jesu's name I hear: And when God the Spirit brings The word of ...
The Task: Book I, The Sofa (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
To Asra (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Are there two things, of all which men possess, That are so like each other and so near, As mutual ...
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 Aeolian Harp (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
My pensive SARA ! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is To sit beside ...
The Eolian Harp (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
(Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire) My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is ...
The trees in the garden rained flowers. (Stephen Crane Poem)
The trees in the garden rained flowers. Children ran there joyously. They gathered the flowers Each to himself. Now there ...