Sonnets XCIX: C: Newborn Death (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
ITo-day Death seems to me an infant childWhich her worn mother Life upon my kneeHas set to grow my friend ...
Poems about resentment (21 Poems)
Advice To A Young Female (Christian Milne Poems)
YOU ask my counsel how you ought to live;Unfit am I the needful rules to giveFor female conduct, which requires ...
Have The Lily (Eli Siegel Poems)
It is a world of space and fritters, Somehow with us all day long; A world - mad - of ...
A Prayer (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
God grant me kindly thought And patience through the day, And in the things I've wrought Let no ...
Say Not He Loves Me (Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev Poems)
Say not he loves me as before, as truly, dearlyAs once he did… Oh no! My lifeHe would destroy, he ...
The Hunting Of Pau-Puk Keewis (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Full of wrath was Hiawatha When he came into the village, Found the people in confusion, Heard of all the ...
The Ghosts (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
La Figlia che Piange (T. S. Eliot Poem)
O quam te memorem virgo... STAND on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave ...
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
242. The Poet’s Progress (Robert Burns Poem)
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...
351. Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Robert Burns Poems)
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...
The Wife of the Mind (Charles Webb Poems)
Sharecroppers' child, she was more schooled In slaughtering pigs and coaxing corn out of The ground than in the laws ...
The Timber (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Pass'd o'er thy head; many ...
Forward (Robert William Service Poems)
I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes In weary, woeful, waiting times; In doleful hours of battle-din, Ere yet they ...
To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As, when a lofty pile is raised, We never hear the workmen praised, Who bring the lime, or place the ...
I Will Not Fight (Robert William Service Poems)
I will not fight: though proud of pith I hold no one worth striving with; And should resentment burn my ...
Argus (Alexander Pope Poems)
When wise Ulysses, from his native coast Long kept by wars, and long by tempests toss'd, Arrived at last, poor, ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 (Alexander Pope Poems)
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
On Seeing A Piece Of Our Artillery Brought Into Action (Wilfred Owen Poems)
Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm, Great gun towering towards Heaven, about to curse; Sway steep against them, ...