Albert and the ‘Eadsman (Marriott Edgar Poems)
On young Albert Ramsbottom's birthday His parents asked what he'd like most; He said to see t' Tower of London ...
Poems about refuse (51 Poems)
Ode To William H. Channing (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
Saadi (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
Loss And Gain (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Virtue runs before the muse And defies her skill, She is rapt, and doth refuse To wait a painter's will. ...
Give All To Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse. ...
The Deepest Dream (Mark van Doren Poem)
The deepest dream is of mad governors, Down, down we feel it, till the very crust Of the world cracks, ...
Sonnet XXVIII: To Such As Say (Michael Drayton Poem)
To such as say thy love I overprize, And do not stick to term my praises folly, Against these folks, ...
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, ...
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...
A Prayer for a Mother’s Birthday (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Lord Jesus, Thou hast known A mother's love and tender care: And Thou wilt hear, while for my own Mother ...
Self-Love (John Donne Poem)
He that cannot choose but love, And strives against it still, Never shall my fancy move, For he loves 'gainst ...
Remembrance has a Rear and Front — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Remembrance has a Rear and Front -- 'Tis something like a House -- It has a Garret also For Refuse ...
Just Once! Oh least Request! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Just Once! Oh least Request! Could Adamant refuse So small a Grace So scanty put, Such agonizing terms? Would not ...
Grief is a Mouse — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Grief is a Mouse -- And chooses Wainscot in the Breast For His Shy House -- And baffles quest -- ...
The Price of Fame (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Do I really love you? So let me guess, you'll think I'm easy prey if I say, okay I do ...
My Mistress Commanding Me to Return Her Letters. (Thomas Carew Poem)
SO grieves th' adventurous merchant, when he throws All the long toil'd-for treasure his ship stows Into the angry main, ...
Salvage (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Daily the cortege of crumpled defunct cars goes by by the lasagna- layered flatbed truckload: hardtop reverting to tar smudge, ...
Praise for Faith (William Cowper Poem)
Of all the gifts Thine hand bestows, Thou Giver of all good! Not heaven itself a richer knows Than my ...
Looking Upwards in a Storm (William Cowper Poem)
God of my life, to Thee I call, Afflicted at Thy feet I fall; When the great water-floods prevail, Leave ...
Welcome to the Table (William Cowper Poem)
This is the feast of heavenly wine, And God invites to sup; The juices of the living Vine Were press'd ...
For the Poor (William Cowper Poem)
When Hagar found the bottle spent And wept o'er Ishmael, A message from the Lord was sent To guide her ...
On – On – Poet (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
On – On – Poet (Aleister Crowley Poem)
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Phantasmagoria Canto I (The Trystyng ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
Rules and Regulations (Lewis Carroll Poem)
A short direction To avoid dejection, By variations In occupations, And prolongation Of relaxation, And combinations Of recreations, And disputation ...
For Bartleby The Scrivener (Billy Collins Poem)
"Every time we get a big gale around here some people just refuse to batten down." we estimate that ice ...
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 ...
Agoraphobia (John Burnside Poem)
My whole world is all you refuse: a black light, angelic and cold on the path to the orchard, fox-runs ...
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 ...