To A Young Poet Who Killed Himself (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
When you had played with life a space And made it drink and lust and sing, You flung it back ...
Poems about puny (28 Poems)
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
A Familiar Letter (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll ...
Conquistador (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
I sing of the decline of Henry Clay Who loved a white girl of uncommon size. Although a small man ...
Our biggest fish (Eugene Field Poem)
When in the halcyon days of old, I was a little tyke, I used to fish in pickerel ponds for ...
Alphonso Of Castile (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I Alphonso live and learn, Seeing nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind, Lemons run to leaves and rind, Meagre ...
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 ...
Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
Wintah, summah, snow er shine, Hit's all de same to me, Ef only I kin call you mine, An' keep ...
A Crystalline Awakening (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
A crystalline awakening on the plateau, the crisp air as brittle as new celery snaps with expectancy. The cold clings ...
Frost At Midnight (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud, -and hark, again! loud as ...
“What says the sea, little shell?” (Stephen Crane Poem)
"What says the sea, little shell? What says the sea? Long has our brother been silent to us, Kept his ...
The Shroud of Color (Countee Cullen Poem)
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
Letter to an Archaeologist (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht; a scalp so often scalded with boiling water that ...
90. Epistle to James Smith (Robert Burns Poem)
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
242. The Poet’s Progress (Robert Burns Poem)
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...
My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, (Alexander Pope Poems)
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures: Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe ...
Love Is A Parallax (Sylvia Plath Poems)
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
Jilted (Sylvia Plath Poems)
My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight ...
RUN AND WON (Vlanes Poems)
When you entered the workshop, I was already here. How many statues, and torsos, and heads ! Like remains of ...
The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...
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 ...
Love, Though for This (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I LOVE, though for this you riddle me with darts, And drag me at your chariot till I die, Oh, ...
Sonnets 12: Cherish You Then The Hope I Shall Forget (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Cherish you then the hope I shall forget At length, my lord, Pieria?-put away For your so passing sake, this ...
Through Agony (Claude McKay Poems)
I All night, through the eternity of night, Pain was my potion though I could not feel. Deep in my ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...