Astraea (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"Jove means to settleAstraea in her seat again, And let down his golden chainAn age of better metal." Ben Johnson 1615O POET ...
Poems about prison-bars (21 Poems)
Worship (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
This is he, who, felled by foes, Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows He to captivity was sold, But him ...
After The Storm (Louis Lavater Poems)
As children vex a lion in his cageThemselves secure, the doorway barred and locked,So, Ocean! have I railed at thee, ...
Somnium Mystici (George MacDonald Poems)
A Microcosm In Terza RimaI.Quiet I lay at last, and knew no moreWhether I breathed or not, so worn I ...
Dante At Verona (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Behold, even I, even I am Beatrice.(Div. Com. Purg. xxx.)OF Florence and of BeatriceServant and singer from of old,O'er Dante's ...
A Marching Song (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips ...
The Chimaera (Arthur Symons Poems)
I dreamed that the Chimaera came, A wandering angel, white with flame From some cloud's height or moonless deep, And ...
Spleen (IV) (Charles Baudelaire Poems)
Quand le ciel bas et lourd p?se comme un couvercleSur l'esprit g?missant en proie aux longs ennuis,Et que de l'horizon ...
La Nue (Alan Seeger Poems)
Oft when sweet music undulated round, Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea Thine image from the waves ...
The Prison (Arthur Symons Poems)
I am the prisoner of my love of you. I pace my soul, as prisoned culprits do, You Stand like ...
The Poet’s Death (Ernest Jones Poems)
A BRAVE old warrior of poesy, Grown grey-haired in the service of his lyre;A soul like an imprisoned Liberty- ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
HIS Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-groveThe father-songster plies the hour-long quest),To feed his soul-brood hungering in the ...
Place De La Bastille, Paris (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
How dear the sky has been above this place! Small treasures of this sky that we see here Seen weak ...
O Love! Thou Makest All Things Even (Sarah Flower Adams Poem)
O Love! thou makest all things even In earth or heaven; Finding thy way through prison-bars Up to the stars; ...
Love (Sarah Flower Adams Poem)
O Love! thou makest all things even In earth or heaven; Finding thy way through prison-bars Up to the stars; ...
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I. I stand on the mark beside the shore Of the first white pilgrim's bended knee, Where exile turned to ...
M’Fingal – Canto IV (John Trumbull Poems)
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
A Marching Song (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips and hands Our staffs and weapons ...
La Nue (Alan Seeger Poems)
Oft when sweet music undulated round, Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea Thine image from the waves ...
Modern Love IV: All Other Joys of Life (George Meredith Poems)
All other joys of life he strove to warm, And magnify, and catch them to his lip: But they had ...
Riding Together (William Morris Poems)
For many, many days together The wind blew steady from the East; For many days hot grew the weather, About ...