[Four Sonnets (1922)] (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I1.Love, though for this you riddle me with darts,.And drag me at your chariot till I die, --.Oh, heavy prince! ...
Poems about reticence (21 Poems)
At Dusk (Henry Kendall Poems)
AT DUSK, like flowers that shun the day, Shy thoughts from dim recesses break,And plead for words I dare not say For ...
I Shall Be Loved As Quiet Things (Karle Wilson Baker Poems)
I shall be loved as quiet thingsAre loved—white pigeons in the sun,Curled yellow leaves that whisper downOne after one;The silver ...
Reticence (Jewell Miller Poems)
When all the sun-kissed ways are darkAnd silence reigns where laughter ruled,Walk in the silent ways apart ...And by much ...
The Spagnoletto. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Act III.SCENE I. The studio of the Spagnoletto. RIBERA before his canvas. LUCA in attendance.RIBERA (laying aside his brush).So! I ...
Witch Of Our Wilderness (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I know not why I love your baffling face,Or, lonely, to your cold caresses steal,Or what the charm persuades my ...
The Station-Master Of Lone Prairie (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
An empty bench, a sky of grayest etching,A bare, bleak shed in blackest silhouette,Twelve years of platform, and before them ...
Afterward (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
There is no vacant chair. The loving meet—A group unbroken—smitten, who knows how?One sitteth silent only, in his usual seat;We ...
First Snow (Boris Pasternak Poems)
Outside the snowstorm spins, and hidesThe world beneath a pall.Snowed under are the paper-girl,The papers and the stall.Quite often our ...
I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I think I should have loved you presently,And given in earnest words I flung in jest;And lifted honest eyes for ...
This that would greet-an hour ago (Emily Dickinson Poems)
778This that would greet-an hour ago-Is quaintest Distance-now-Had it a Guest from Paradise-Nor glow, would it, nor bow-Had it a ...
Turns (Tony Harrison Poem)
I thought it made me look more 'working class' (as if a bit of chequered cloth could bridge that gap!) ...
This that would greet — an hour ago — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This that would greet -- an hour ago -- Is quaintest Distance -- now -- Had it a Guest from ...
Alone and in a Circumstance (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Alone and in a Circumstance Reluctant to be told A spider on my reticence Assiduously crawled And so much more ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Geraint And Enid (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
The Tree In Pamela’s Garden (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Pamela was too gentle to deceive Her roses. "Let the men stay where they are," She said, "and if Apollo's ...
Captain Craig (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
The Wandering Jew (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I saw by looking in his eyes That they remembered everything; And this was how I came to know That ...
Avon’s Harvest (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
I Think I Should Have Loved You (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
II I THINK I should have loved you presently, And given in earnest words I flung in jest; And lifted ...