How pleasant to know Mr. Lear (Edward Lear Poem)
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear, Who has written such volumes of stuff. Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But ...
Poems about resembles (25 Poems)
The Day is Done (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From ...
Eternity (James Lee Jobe Poem)
for C. G. Macdonald, 1956-2006 Charlie, sunrise is a three-legged mongrel dog, going deaf, already blind in one eye, answering ...
A Dedication (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, ...
A SYMBOL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
(This fine poem is given by Goethe amongst a small collection of what he calls Loge (Lodge), meaning thereby Masonic ...
Early Darkness (Louise Gluck Poem)
How can you say earth should give me joy? Each thing born is my burden; I cannot succeed with all ...
The Garden Shukkei-en (Carolyn Forche Poem)
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river as a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain. ...
The Cradle (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
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 ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
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, ...
His Bill is clasped — his Eye forsook — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
His Bill is clasped -- his Eye forsook -- His Feathers wilted low -- The Claws that clung, like lifeless ...
What Is Life? (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Resembles Life what once was held of Light, Too ample in itself for human sight ? An absolute Self--an element ...
My Comforter (Emily Bronte Poem)
Well hast thou spoken, and yet, not taught A feeling strange or new; Thou hast but roused a latent thought, ...
144. A Winter Night (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN biting Boreas, fell and dour, Sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r; When Phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r, Far south ...
15. Winter: A Dirge (Robert Burns Poems)
THE WINTRY west extends his blast, And hail and rain does blaw; Or the stormy north sends driving forth The ...
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, ...
The Prisoners Of The Little Box (Vasko Popa Poems)
Open little box We kiss your bottom and cover Keyhole and key The whole world lies crumpted in you It ...
To M.L.S. (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Of all who hail thy presence as the morning- Of all to whom thine absence is the night- The blotting ...
A Life (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. Here's yesterday, last year --- ...
A Fairly Sad Tale (Dorothy Parker Poems)
I think that I shall never know Why I am thus, and I am so. Around me, other girls inspire ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
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 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 ...
Inheritance-His (Audre Lorde Poems)
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...