The Bombardment (Amy Lowell Poem)
Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city. It stops a moment on the carved head of Saint John, ...
Poems about rubies (31 Poems)
The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
The Captured Goddess (Amy Lowell Poem)
Over the housetops, Above the rotating chimney-pots, I have seen a shiver of amethyst, And blue and cinnamon have flickered ...
For Sidney Bechet (Philip Larkin Poem)
That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate ...
Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Ascent To The Sierras (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising Begins to possess the ground, the flatness gathers to little humps and ...
THE MINER (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
BEETLING rock, with roar and smoke Break before my hammer-stroke! Deeper I must thrust and lower Till I hear the ...
A Lake And A Fairy Boat (Thomas Hood Poem)
A lake and a fairy boat To sail in the moonlight clear, - And merrily we would float From the ...
When I Was One-and-Twenty (A. E. Housman Poem)
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart ...
THE ROCK OF RUBIES, AND THE QUARRY OFPEARLS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Some ask'd me where the Rubies grew: And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips ...
Upon The Nipples Of Julia’s Breast (Robert Herrick Poems)
Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within ...
Bejeweled (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Encrusted with jewels, diamonds, pearls, clear rubies, bedazzled with sequins, pearls of ever size and shape anointed and adorned the ...
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 ...
Broadway (Mark Doty Poem)
Under Grand Central's tattered vault --maybe half a dozen electric stars still lit-- one saxophone blew, and a sheer black ...
The Day came slow — till Five o’clock (Emily Dickinson Poems)
The Day came slow -- till Five o'clock -- Then sprang before the Hills Like Hindered Rubies -- or the ...
I Came to buy a smile — today (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I Came to buy a smile -- today -- But just a single smile -- The smallest one upon your ...
A Tongue — to tell Him I am true! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Tongue -- to tell Him I am true! Its fee -- to be of Gold -- Had Nature -- ...
‘Tis little I — could care for Pearls (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Tis little I -- could care for Pearls -- Who own the ample sea -- Or Brooches -- when the ...
The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews (Amy Clampitt Poem)
An ingenuity too astonishing to be quite fortuitous is this bog full of sundews, sphagnum- lined and shaped like a ...
The Rose and the Cross (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Out of the seething cauldron of my woes, Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung; Where charmed music gathered ...
The Rose and the Cross (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Out of the seething cauldron of my woes, Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung; Where charmed music gathered ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Saul (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
A Pretty Woman (Robert Browning Poem)
I That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers, And the blue eye Dear and dewy, And that infantine fresh air of hers! ...
I Saw a Chapel (William Blake Poems)
I saw a chapel all of gold That none did dare to enter in, And many weeping stood without, Weeping, ...
To My Children (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
Jaya Surya GOLDEN sun of victory, born In my life's unclouded morn, In my lambent sky of love, May your ...
To His Coy Mistress (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which ...
The Chrysolites and Rubies Bacchus Brings (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
The chrysolites and rubies Bacchus brings To crown the feast where swells the broad-vein'd brow, Where maidens blush at what ...