She Dearly Loved The Flowers (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
I saw her first when she was old, Her form devoid of grace;Her locks that once were yellow gold Were white, and ...
Poems about rebuff (21 Poems)
The Spagnoletto. Act I (Emma Lazarus Poems)
THE SPAGNOLETTO.DRAMATIS PERSONAE.DON JOHN of AUSTRIA.JOSEF RIBERA, the Spagnoletto.LORENZO, noble young Italian artist, pupil of Ribera.DON TOMMASO MANZANO.LUCA, servant to ...
A Riddle: A Tale (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
In Days of yore the Story goes,A subterranean Castle rose;Which rear'd its Head a wond'rous Height,The Work of some ingenious ...
A Vision Out West (Barcroft Henry Boake Poems)
Far reaching down's a solid sea sunk everlastingly to rest, And yet whose billows seem to be for ever heaving ...
Weeding (Charles Lamb Poems)
As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play, Was labouring industriously hardTo cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away, ...
The Syrophenicia (George MacDonald Poems)
Grant, Lord, her prayer, and let her go;She crieth after us.Nay, to the dogs ye cast it so;Serve not a ...
And Do You Think That Love Itself (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
"And do you think that love itself,Living in such an ugly house,Can prosper long? We ...
Sonnet CCXVII: “These gusts of passion blown in many a mood” (George Henry Boker Poems)
These gusts of passion blown in many a mood Through heart and spirit and conceiving brain, May to my ear ...
Sonnet CLVI: “Out on the heart that has not faith enough” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Out on the heart that has not faith enough To recognize another's constancy; That vaunts its arrogant fidelity, And scorns ...
The Importance Of Elsewhere (Philip Larkin Poem)
Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home, Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech, Insisting so on difference, ...
The Bistro Styx (Rita Dove Poem)
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...
Ballad Of The Despairing Husband (Robert Creeley Poem)
My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
By The Fire-Side (Robert Browning Poem)
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Rabbi Ben Ezra (Robert Browning Poem)
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
Grin (Robert William Service Poems)
If you're up against a bruiser and you're getting knocked about -- Grin. If you're feeling pretty groggy, and you're ...
Avon’s Harvest (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
The Book of Annandale (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
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 ...
And do you think that love itself (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
And do you think that love itself, Living in such an ugly house, Can prosper long? We meet and part; ...