Middle Aged Lovers, II (Erica Jong Poem)
You open to me a little, then grow afraid and close again, a small boy fearing to be hurt, a ...
Poems about renounce (25 Poems)
FINNISH SONG. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
IF the loved one, the well-known one, Should return as he departed, On his lips would ring my kisses, Though ...
To a Usurper (Eugene Field Poem)
Aha! a traitor in the camp, A rebel strangely bold,-- A lisping, laughing, toddling scamp, Not more than four years ...
Hi-spy (Eugene Field Poem)
Strange that the city thoroughfare, Noisy and bustling all the day, Should with the night renounce its care, And lend ...
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Ash Wednesday (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
Elegy VI (John Donne Poem)
Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve Whom honour's smokes at once fatten and starve; Poorly enrich't ...
I taste a liquor never brewed (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I taste a liquor never brewed -- From Tankards scooped in Pearl -- Not all the Vats upon the Rhine ...
Priest At The Serapeum (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
My dear old father, who always loved me the same; my dear old father I lament who died the day ...
The Covenant (William Cowper Poem)
(Ezekiel, xxxvi. 25-28) The Lord proclaims His grace abroad! "Behold, I change your hearts of stone; Each shall renounce his ...
Lively Hope and Gracious Fear (William Cowper Poem)
I was a grovelling creature once, And basely cleaved to earth: I wanted spirit to renounce The clod that gave ...
The Good, Great Man (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
"How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains! It sounds like ...
Music on Christmas Morning (Anne Bronte Poem)
Music I love - but never strain Could kindle raptures so divine, So grief assuage, so conquer pain, And rouse ...
Fra Lippo Lippi (Robert Browning Poem)
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Sonnet 11 – And therefore if to love can be desert (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
And therefore if to love can be desert, I am not all unworthy. Cheeks as pale As these you see, ...
Stepping Backward (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Good-by to you whom I shall see tomorrow, Next year and when I'm fifty; still good-by. This is the leave ...
Eloisa to Abelard (Alexander Pope Poems)
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
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 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
If (Yahia Lababidi Poems)
If there were more than one of me I'd shave my head and grow my beard I'd be a Doctor ...
Our Mother Pocahontas (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(Note: - Pocahontas is buried at Gravesend, England.) "Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in ...