A Tree Telling of Orpheus (Denise Levertov Poem)
White dawn. Stillness.When the rippling began I took it for sea-wind, coming to our valley with rumors of salt, of ...
Poems about rejoiced (30 Poems)
THE MINER (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
BEETLING rock, with roar and smoke Break before my hammer-stroke! Deeper I must thrust and lower Till I hear the ...
Leipzig (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
from crossing the line (Rg Gregory Poem)
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
ANACREON’S GRAVE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HERE where the roses blossom, where vines round the laurels are twining, Where the turtle-dove calls, where the blithe cricket ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things (Robert Frost Poem)
The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of ...
Praise for the Fountain Opened (William Cowper Poem)
(Zecheriah, xiii.1) There is a fountain fill'd with blood, Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose ...
The sage lectured brilliantly (Stephen Crane Poem)
The sage lectured brilliantly. Before him, two images: "Now this one is a devil, And this one is me." He ...
Seaside Golf (John Betjeman Poem)
How straight it flew, how long it flew, It clear'd the rutty track And soaring, disappeared from view Beyond the ...
Epitaphs (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
Her Mother's Epitaph Here lies A worthy matron of unspotted life, A loving mother and obedient wife, A friendly neighbor, ...
Dream Song 75: Turning it over, considering (John Berryman Poem)
Turning it over, considering, like a madman Henry put forth a book. No harm resulted from this. Neither the menstruating ...
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 ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 08: Coffins: Interlude (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Wind blows. Snow falls. The great clock in its tower Ticks with reverberant coil and tolls the hour: At the ...
438. Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday (Robert Burns Poems)
OLD Winter, with his frosty beard, Thus once to Jove his prayer preferred: "What have I done of all the ...
The Corner Man (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
I dreamt a dream at the midnight deep, When fancies come and go To vex a man in his soothing ...
Condolence (Dorothy Parker Poems)
They hurried here, as soon as you had died, Their faces damp with haste and sympathy, And pressed my hand ...
Meditation under Stars (George Meredith Poems)
What links are ours with orbs that are So resolutely far: The solitary asks, and they Give radiance as from ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
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 ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Teddy Bear (A. A. Milne Poems)
A bear, however hard he tries, Grows tubby without exercise. Our Teddy Bear is short and fat, Which is not ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
The Eagle That is Forgotten (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Sleep softly ... eagle forgotten ... under the stone. Time has its way with you there, and the clay has ...
Songs (Philip Levine Poems)
Dawn coming in over the fields of darkness takes me by surprise and I look up from my solitary road ...