Choice (James Vincent Cunningham Poems)
Allegiance is assignedForever when the mindChooses and stamps the will.Thus, I must love you stillThrough good and ill.But though we ...
Poems about preferring (21 Poems)
“My lovely pixie, my good companion” (Lesbia Harford Poems)
My lovely pixie, my good companion,You do not love me, bed-mate of mine,Save as a child loves,Careless of loving,Rather preferring ...
Palinodia (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life ...
A Ballad of Freedom (C J Dennis Poems)
Now Mr. Jeremiah BaneHe owned a warehouse in The Lane,An edifice of goodly size,Where, with keen private enterprise, He sold ...
Farewell To Brother Jonathan (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Farewell! we must part; we have turned from the landOf our cold-hearted brother, with tyrannous hand,Who assumed all our rights ...
Horace To Phyllis (Eugene Field Poems)
Come, Phyllis, I've a cask of wine That fairly reeks with precious juices,And in your tresses you shall twine The ...
Dotage (George Herbert Poems)
False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse,Foolish night-fires, women's and children's wishes,Chases in arras, guilded emptinesse,Shadows well mounted, dreams in a ...
The Intruder (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
My mother-- preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog's belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould ...
On a young Lady Whose LORD was Travelling. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
NO sooner I pronounced Celindas name, But Troops of wing'd Pow'rs did chant the fame: Not those the Poets Bows ...
THE FOX AND CRANE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ONCE two persons uninvited Came to join my dinner table; For the nonce they lived united, Fox and crane yclept ...
Horace to phyllis (Eugene Field Poem)
Come, Phyllis, I've a cask of wine That fairly reeks with precious juices, And in your tresses you shall twine ...
The Hill Wife (Robert Frost Poem)
I. LONELINESS Her Word One ought not to have to care So much as you and I Care when the ...
Blight (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
Other side (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The dung was recent, not an event unusual in itself but difficult to explain of cows grazing the other side ...
Coming To This (Mark Strand Poems)
We have done what we wanted. We have discarded dreams, preferring the heavy industry of each other, and we have ...
Tourist (Robert William Service Poems)
To Italy a random tour I took to crown my education, Returning relatively poor In purse yet rich in conversation. ...
No, You Be A Lone Eagle (Ogden Nash Poems)
I find it very hard to be fair-minded About people who go around being air-minded. I just can't see any ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Evolution (Sharmagne Leland-St. John Poems)
I swim near summer shadows glide over dappled shoals keeping to the fluid shallows reminiscent of the womb where I ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...