Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Poems about receive (51 Poems)
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Elegy II: The Anagram (John Donne Poem)
Marry, and love thy Flavia, for she Hath all things whereby others beautious be, For, though her eyes be small, ...
The Dissolution (John Donne Poem)
She's dead; and all which die To their first elements resolve; And we were mutual elements to us, And made ...
One Joy of so much anguish (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One Joy of so much anguish Sweet nature has for me I shun it as I do Despair Or dear ...
Great Caesar! Condescend (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Great Caesar! Condescend The Daisy, to receive, Gathered by Cato's Daughter, With your majestic leave! (Emily Dickinson)
The Bee is not afraid of me. (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Bee is not afraid of me. I know the Butterfly. The pretty people in the Woods Receive me cordially ...
Haircut today (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I am having a haircut today, it is not a complex event requiring excellent foresight, careful planning or indecent logistical ...
Waiting For The Barbarians (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in ...
Boldness in Love (Thomas Carew Poem)
Mark how the bashful morn in vain Courts the amorous marigold, With sighing blasts and weeping rain, Yet she refuses ...
Through a Glass Darkly (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
What we, when face to face we see The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not ...
The Last Man (Thomas Campbell Poem)
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
To Delia: On Her Endeavouring To Conceal Her Grief At Parting (William Cowper Poem)
Ah! wherefore should my weeping maid suppress Those gentle signs of undissembled woe? When from soft love proceeds the deep ...
Peace after a Storm (William Cowper Poem)
When darkness long has veil'd my mind, And smiling day once more appears, Then, my Redeemer, then I find The ...
The Sower (William Cowper Poem)
(Matthew, xiii.3) Ye sons of earth prepare the plough, Break up your fallow ground; The sower is gone forth to ...
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion (William Cowper Poem)
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion, Scarce can endure delay of execution, Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my Soul ...
Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity (William Cowper Poem)
Hatred and vengence-my eternal portion Scarce can endure delay of execution- Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in ...
Dejection: An Ode (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
Pinup (Billy Collins Poem)
The murkiness of the local garage is not so dense that you cannot make out the calendar of pinup drawings ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
All Distance (Erin Belieu Poem)
Writing from Boston, where sky is simply property, a flourish topping crowds of condos and historic real estate, I'm trying ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
From ‘The Testament of Beauty’ (Robert Seymour Bridges Poems)
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
Frances (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
The Missionary (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
Self-Portrait At 28 (David Berman Poem)
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
I Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda ...
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...