The Sacrifice of Er-Heb (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
Poems about ruby (31 Poems)
To G.A.W. (John Keats Poem)
Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance! In what diviner moments of the day Art thou most lovely?-when gone ...
Ode On Melancholy (John Keats Poem)
No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to ...
Stone Shadows (David St. John Poem)
For an entire year she dressed in all the shades Of ash - the gray of old paper; the deeper, ...
Paragraphs from a Day-Book (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
Cherry-ripe: dark sweet burlats, scarlet reverchons firm-fleshed and tart in the mouth bigarreaux, peach-and-white napoléons as the harvest moves north ...
Contentment (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
"Man wants but little here below." LITTLE I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone, ...
Regarding Art (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
Sometimes, I, too, tell the ah's of my heart one by one like the blood-red beads of a ruby rosary ...
Ruby Slippers (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A pair of ruby slippers sequined and well-worn Old friends gingerly placed, lovingly left for another day I don't know ...
Aurora (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Claremont to Durham, regular drive, autopilot Rtes 103, 114, 9, 89, 4 Exit 5, New England College down the road ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Ode To Beauty (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
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 ...
Late Spring (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Why the sweet Spring delays, And where she hides, -- ...
All the letters I can write (Emily Dickinson Poem)
All the letters I can write Are not fair as this -- Syllables of Velvet -- Sentences of Plush, Depths ...
A Toad, can die of Light — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Toad, can die of Light -- Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men -- Of Earl and ...
I went to Heaven (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I went to Heaven -- 'Twas a small Town -- Lit -- with a Ruby -- Lathed -- with Down ...
A slash of Blue (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A slash of Blue -- A sweep of Gray -- Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky ...
Of The Shop (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
He wrapped them carefully, neatly in costly green silk. Roses of ruby, lilies of pearl, violets of amethyst. As he ...
Wishes To His (Supposed) Mistress (Richard Crashaw Poem)
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus (Richard Crashaw Poem)
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
Stupid (Raymond Carver Poem)
It's what the kids nowadays call weed. And it drifts like clouds from his lips. He hopes no one comes ...
Colophon (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
Colophon (Aleister Crowley Poem)
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The Cottage Hospital (John Betjeman Poem)
At the end of a long-walled garden in a red provincial town, A brick path led to a mulberry- scanty ...
The Ballade Of The Automobile (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
When our yacht sails seaward on steady keel And the wind is moist with breath of brine And our laughter ...
Freedom of Love (Andre Breton Poem)
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
Sonnet 12 – Indeed this very love which is my boast (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Indeed this very love which is my boast, And which, when rising up from breast to brow, Doth crown me ...
The Little Girl Lost (William Blake Poems)
In futurity I prophesy see. That the earth from sleep. (Grave the sentence deep) Shall arise and seek For her ...