Time (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Genius of musings, who, the midnight hourWasting in woods or haunted forests wild,Dost watch Orion in his arctic tower,Thy dark ...
Poems about semblances (11 Poems)
Spring (Henry Timrod Poems)
Spring, with that nameless pathos in the airWhich dwells with all things fair,Spring, with her golden suns and silver rain,Is ...
Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion (Navarre Scott Momaday Poems)
I ponder how He died, despairing once.I've heard the cry subside in vacant skies,In clearings where no other was. Despair,Which, ...
Opium (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_On reading De Quincey's "Confessions of an Opium Eater."_ I seemed to stand before a temple walled From shadows and night's unrealities; Filled ...
An Art Master (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
HE gathered cherry-stones, and carved them quaintlyInto fine semblances of flies and flowers;With subtle skill, he even imaged faintlyThe forms ...
Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever: Book XII. – The Many Mansions (Edward Henry Bickersteth Poems)
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
To the Moon [Earlier Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
WITH silent step behold her steal Over those envious clouds that hidTill now her face, then stand-a seal ...
Summer Afternoon (Bodiam Castle, Sussex) (Edith Wharton Poems)
THOU couldst not look on me and live: so runs The mortal legend -- thou that couldst not live Nor ...
Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H. (Amy Lowell Poem)
How still it is! Sunshine itself here falls In quiet shafts of light through the high trees Which, arching, make ...
A Fairy Tale (Amy Lowell Poem)
On winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures. There before ...
The Poet as Hero (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
You've heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented, Mocking and loathing War: you've asked me why Of my old, silly sweetness ...