Time How Short (John Newton Poems)
Time, with an unwearied hand,Pushes round the seasons past,And in life's frail glass, the sandSinks apace, not long to last:Many, ...
Poems about prolongs (21 Poems)
“Patiently, as one grinds gravel” (Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva Poems)
Patiently, as one grinds gravelPatiently, as one awaits death,Patiently, as news ripens,Patiently, as one savors revenge -I will wait for ...
Listening (John Freeman Poems)
There is a place of grassWith daisies like white pools,Or shining islands in a seaOf brightening waves.Swallows, darting, brushThe waves ...
The Gnome’s Song (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
PRELUDING low, in notes that faint and tremble,Swelling, awakening, dying, plaining deep,While such sensations in the soul assemble,As make it ...
Matins (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Still sing the Morning Stars remoteWith echoes now unheard,Save in the scintillating noteOf some dawn-wakened birdWhose heart—a fountain in the ...
The Author (Charles Churchill Poems)
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
The Troubadour And Richard Coeur De Lion (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
The Troubadour o'er many a plainHath roamed unwearied, but in vain.O'er many a rugged mountain-scene And forest wild his track ...
Peripeteia (Anthony Hecht Poems)
Of course, the familiar rustling of programs, My hair mussed from behind by a grand gesture Of mink. A little ...
Lessons For A Child (George MacDonald Poems)
I.There breathes not a breath of the summer airBut the spirit of love is moving there;Not a trembling leaf on ...
Love-Despondency (Edward Dyer Poems)
Devyde my tymes and rate my wretched howresFrom days to months, fro months to many yeers,And than compare my sweetest ...
The Silence (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
Ever since ending of the summer weather.When last the thunder and the lightning broke,Shatt'ring themselves upon it at one stroke,The ...
“Burn on, sweet fire, for I live by that fuel” (Barnabe Barnes Poems)
Burn on, sweet fire, for I live by that fuelWhose smoke is as an incense to my soul.Each sigh prolongs ...
Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude (Thomas Gray Poem)
Now the golden Morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing, With vermeil cheek and whisper soft She wooes the tardy Spring: ...
Whom should I choose for my Judge? (fragment) (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Whom should I choose for my Judge? the earnest, impersonal reader, Who, in the work, forgets me and the world ...
On the Field of Kulicovo (Aleksandr Blok Poem)
The river stretched. It flows, idly grieves, And washes both banks. In steppe, above light clay of cliffs Rinks mourn ...
The Poor Old Cannon (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Upbroke the sun In red-gold foam; Thus spoke the gun At the Soldier's Home: "Whenever I hear Blue thunder speak ...
Hymn 80 (Isaac Watts Poems)
An evening hymn. Psa. 4:8; 3:5,6; 148:8. Thus far the Lord has led me on, Thus far his power prolongs ...
Psalm 107 part 3 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Intemperance punished and pardoned. Vain man, on foolish pleasures bent, Prepares for his own punishment; What pains, what loathsome maladies, ...
Ode to Envy (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Deep in th' abyss where frantic horror bides, In thickest mists of vapours fell, Where wily Serpents hissing glare And ...
The Hymn (John Milton Poems)
I It was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw ...
Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (John Milton Poems)
IT was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw to ...