Seven Days Leave (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Like flies about their ceiling aircraft haulover the cloudcap, your far sight outclimb. Thin air, compacted, trails them white whose belling engines ...
Poems about relapse (21 Poems)
Scraps (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
There's a habit I have nurtured, From the sentimental timeWhen my life was like a story, And my heart a happy rhyme,--Of ...
Fine Days (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
These fine days have been my ruin.On this kind of day I resignedMy job in "Pious Foundations"On this kind of ...
Tale III (George Crabbe Poems)
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
The Empty Purse–A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son (George Meredith Poems)
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
The Last Crew (DuBose Heyward Poems)
I Spring found us early that eventful year, Seeming to know in her clairvoyant way The bitterness ...
Anactoria (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
Towns in Colour (Amy Lowell Poems)
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
Possum (C J Dennis Poems)
Jist 'ere it gripped me, on a sudden, like a red-'ot knife.I wus diggin' in the garden, talkin' pleasant to ...
The Priest’s Warning (Constance Naden Poems)
DOST long for sunrise?--quench the vain desire, And bar thy window 'gainst the eastern fire. Thy fathers dwelt content in ...
LXXI. Knowledge vain without Practice (Ellis Walker Poems)
Such, and so differing is the characterOf the plebeian and philosopher.Now the proficient, he that labours onTowards perfection, by these ...
In Harbour (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I.Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote usAs mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;To the ...
The Artist (Amy Lowell Poems)
Why do you subdue yourself in golds and purples? Why do you dim yourself with folded silks? Do you not ...
An Aquarium (Amy Lowell Poem)
Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver -- gold -- Grey-green opaqueness sliding ...
The Twins (Robert Browning Poem)
Give'' and ``It-shall-be-given-unto-you.'' I. Grand rough old Martin Luther Bloomed fables---flowers on furze, The better the uncouther: Do roses stick ...
In Harbour (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I. Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone ...
Monotone (Carl Sandburg Poems)
The monotone of the rain is beautiful, And the sudden rise and slow relapse Of the long multitudinous rain. The ...
On the Way (Carl Sandburg Poems)
LITTLE one, you have been buzzing in the books, Flittering in the newspapers and drinking beer with lawyers And amid ...
Paralytic (Sylvia Plath Poems)
It happens. Will it go on? ---- My mind a rock, No fingers to grip, no tongue, My god the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
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 ...