Sonnet CXXXVIII: “About myself a shadow I have wrapped” (George Henry Boker Poems)
About myself a shadow I have wrapped; I shall no more with patience nor with ease Hear feathered minstrels shake ...
Poems about scowling (21 Poems)
The Evil Being (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
OH! Thou whose breath empoisons the sweet air,Whose heart is evil, and whose mind despair;Whose baleful tongue the fairest fame ...
Prison Bars (Ernest Jones Poems)
Ye scowling prison bars That compass me about,I'll forge ye into armour To face the world without.Bold Aspiration's ...
When the Children Come Home (Henry Lawson Poem)
On a lonely selection far out in the West An old woman works all the day without rest, And she ...
A youth in apparel that glittered (Stephen Crane Poem)
A youth in apparel that glittered Went to walk in a grim forest. There he met an assassin Attired all ...
Stanzas (Anne Bronte Poem)
Oh, weep not, love! each tear that springs In those dear eyes of thine, To me a keener suffering brings, ...
Parting Address From Z.Z. To A.E. (Anne Bronte Poem)
O weep not, love! each tear that springs In those dear eyes of thine, To me a keener suffering brings ...
137. Song-Farewell to the Banks of Ayr (Robert Burns Poems)
THE GLOOMY night is gath'ring fast, Loud roars the wild, inconstant blast, Yon murky cloud is foul with rain, I ...
Jump Rope (Connie Wanek Poems)
There is menace in its relentless course, round and round, describing an ellipsoid, an airy prison in which a young ...
A MEETING WITH THE PRINCESS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Just a family get-together in a terrace house in Bradford High tea with a few stuffy aunts I hadn't seen ...
The Child-Angel (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
They clamour and fight, they doubt and despair, they know no end to their wrangling. Let your life come amongst ...
The Land of the Exile (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Mother, the light has grown grey in the sky; I do not know what the time is. There is no ...
Venus and Adonis (William Shakespeare Poems)
Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, ...
Echo to Him Who Complains (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
O FLY thee from the shades of night, Where the loud tempests yelling rise; Where horrror wings her sullen flight ...
Ode to Envy (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Deep in th' abyss where frantic horror bides, In thickest mists of vapours fell, Where wily Serpents hissing glare And ...
Ode to Meditation (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
SWEET CHILD OF REASON! maid serene; With folded arms, and pensive mien, Who wand'ring near yon thorny wild, So oft, ...
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (Ezra Pound Poems)
After Li Po While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played at the front gate, pulling ...
King Arthur’s Tomb (William Morris Poems)
Hot August noon: already on that day Since sunrise through the Wiltshire downs, most sad Of mouth and eye, he ...
A Poem For the End of the Century (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
When everything was fine And the notion of sin had vanished And the earth was ready In universal peace To ...
On my Sister Joanna’s Entrance into Her 33rd Year (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
On this thy natal day permit a friend - A brother - with thy joys his own to blend: In ...
The Vine & Oak, A Fable (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
A vine from noblest lineage sprung And with the choicest clusters hung, In purple rob'd, reclining lay, And catch'd the ...