St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
Poems about renown (51 Poems)
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
A Tale of the Miser and the Poet (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
Dreaming of Li Po (Tu Fu Poem)
After the separation of death one can eventually swallow back one's grief, but the separation of the living is an ...
Sonnet XXXII: Our Flood’s-Queen Thames (Michael Drayton Poems)
Our flood's-queen Thames for ships and swans is crown'd, And stately Severn for her shore is prais'd, The crystal Trent ...
Sirena (Michael Drayton Poem)
NEAR to the silver Trent SIRENA dwelleth; She to whom Nature lent All that excelleth; By which the Muses late ...
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, ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
The Vain King (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
The Glory of Ships (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
The glory of ships is an old, old song, since the days when the sea-rovers ran In their open boats ...
Stars and the Soul (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
America for Me (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, ...
An American in Europe (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, ...
To be forgot by thee (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To be forgot by thee Surpasses Memory Of other minds The Heart cannot forget Unless it contemplate What it declines ...
The Way to know the Bobolink (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Way to know the Bobolink From every other Bird Precisely as the Joy of him -- Obliged to be ...
The first We knew of Him was Death — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The first We knew of Him was Death -- The second -- was -- Renown -- Except the first had ...
The Clover’s simple Fame (Emily Dickinson Poems)
The Clover's simple Fame Remembered of the Cow -- Is better than enameled Realms Of notability. Renown perceives itself And ...
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb What merit have the Tune No Breakfast if it guaranty The Rose ...
That short — potential stir (Emily Dickinson Poem)
That short -- potential stir That each can make but once -- That Bustle so illustrious 'Tis almost Consequence -- ...
She dwelleth in the Ground — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
She dwelleth in the Ground -- Where Daffodils -- abide -- Her Maker -- Her Metropolis -- The Universe -- ...
Read — Sweet — how others — strove (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Read -- Sweet -- how others -- strove -- Till we -- are stouter -- What they -- renounced -- ...
Lay this Laurel on the One (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Lay this Laurel on the One Too intrinsic for Renown -- Laurel -- veil your deathless tree -- Him you ...
He touched me, so I live to know (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He touched me, so I live to know That such a day, permitted so, I groped upon his breast -- ...
Forever honored by the Tree (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Forever honored by the Tree Whose Apple Winterworn Enticed to Breakfast from the Sky Two Gabriels Yestermorn. They registered in ...
Bloom upon the Mountain — stated — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Bloom upon the Mountain -- stated -- Blameless of a Name -- Efflorescence of a Sunset -- Reproduced -- the ...
It feels a shame to be Alive (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It feels a shame to be Alive -- When Men so brave -- are dead -- One envies the Distinguished ...
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened (Thomas Carew Poem)
Know Celia, since thou art so proud, 'Twas I that gave thee thy renown; Thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd ...
Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud (Thomas Carew Poem)
Know, Celia, since thou art so proud, 'Twas I that gave thee thy renown. Thou hadst in the forgotten crowd ...