The Night Sky (Mary Webb Poems)
The moon, beyond her violet bars,From towering heights of thunder-cloud,Sheds calm upon our scarlet wars,To soothe a world so small, ...
Poems about secrecy (21 Poems)
The Lady Of La Garaye – Part II (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
A FIRST walk after sickness: the sweet breeze That murmurs welcome in the bending trees, When the cold shadowy foe ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI The Story of the Flood (Anonymous Asian Poems)
Gilgamesh spoke to Utanapishtim, the Faraway: "I have been looking at you, but your appearance is not strange—you ...
To Cynthia On Her Looking Glasse (Francis Kynaston Poems)
Give me leave (fairest Cynthia) to envy Thy looking glasse farre happyer then ...
An Ox Looks At Man (Carlos Drummond de Andrade Poems)
They are more delicate even than shrubs and they runand run from one side to the other, always forgettingsomething.Surely they ...
An Invitation (Edmund William Gosse Poems)
COME to the river-bank with me; For there are plumed ferns of crescent green, And in the wine-dark pools are ...
Isabella or The Pot of Basil (John Keats Poem)
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
The Convent Gardener Of Lamporechio (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
Elegy VII (John Donne Poem)
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou ...
The Leaves like Women interchange (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Leaves like Women interchange Exclusive Confidence -- Somewhat of nods and somewhat Portentous inference. The Parties in both cases ...
I Held A Shelley Manuscript (Gregory Corso Poem)
My hands did numb to beauty as they reached into Death and tightened! O sovereign was my touch upon the ...
A Culinary Puzzle (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
In our dainty little kitchen, Where my aproned wife is queen Over all the tin-pan people, In a realm exceeding ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
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 ...
140. Masonic Song-Ye Sons of Old Killie (Robert Burns Poems)
YE sons of old Killie, assembled by Willie, To follow the noble vocation; Your thrifty old mother has scarce such ...
A Song To David (Christopher Smart Poems)
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
First Anniversary (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C. (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...