“The Laurels” (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
FROM these wild rocks I look to-dayO'er leagues of dancing waves, and seeThe far, low coast-line stretch awayTo where our ...
Poems about severing (21 Poems)
Worship (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
This is he, who, felled by foes, Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows He to captivity was sold, But him ...
The Closed Door (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
SHUT it out of the heart - this grief,O Love, with the years grown old and hoary!And let in joy ...
The Kitchen Shears Speak (Christianne Balk Poems)
This division must end.Again I'm forced to amputatethe chicken's limb; slit the joint,clip the heart, snip wing from back,strip fat ...
Envoi (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Now don't go and say you'd a dim Idea of these stories before, For I've frankly confessed them from Grimm, The monarch of ...
To G. G. (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AN AUTOGRAPH.Graceful in name and in thyself, our riverNone fairer saw in John Ward's pilgrim flock,Proof that upon their century-rooted ...
Sonnet LIV. Stratford-Upon-Avon (Henry Alford Poems)
We stood upon the tomb of him whose praise Time, nor oblivious thrift, nor envy chill, Nor war, nor ocean with her ...
Christmas Eve (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Alone—with one fair star for company,The loveliest star among the hosts of night,While the grey tide ebbs with the ebbing ...
This Severing (Leonie Adams Poems)
I turned as new resigned:A summer gleaned, my business was within,My charge the sober mind,My care the wintry bin.And found ...
The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady (George Meredith Poems)
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
The Highlanders: Part II (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
COME , then, explore with me each winding glen,Far from the noisy haunts of busy men;Let us with stedfast eye ...
On The Death Of Burns (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
WHAT adverse fate awaits the tuneful train!Has OTWAY died and SPENCER liv'd in vain?In vain has COLLINS , Fancy's pensive ...
Eclogue Of The Shepherd And The Townie (Anthony Hecht Poems)
SHEPHERD Not the blue-fountained Florida hotel, Bell-capped, bellevued, straight-jacketed and decked With chromium palms and a fromage of moon, Not ...
Night Of Frost In May (George Meredith Poems)
With splendour of a silver day,A frosted night had opened May:And on that plumed and armoured night,As one close temple ...
Ghazal 1 (With English Tranlation) (Daagh Dehlvi Poems)
UZR AANEY MEIn BHI HAI AUR BULAATEY BHI NAHIEnBAAES-E-TARK-E-MULAAQAAT BATAATEY BHI NAHIEnKYA KAHAA PHIR TO KAHO HUM NAHIEn SUNTEY TERINAHIEn ...
On A Symphony Of Beethoven (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
Terrible music, whose strange utterance Seemed like the spell of some dread conscious trance; Motionless misery, impotent despair, ...
At An Inn (Thomas Hardy Poem)
WHEN we as strangers sought Their catering care, Veiled smiles bespoke their thought Of what we were. They warmed as ...
De Profundis (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." - Ps. ci Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring ...
In Tenebris (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring again: Twice no one dies. Flower-petals flee; But since it once hath ...
The Saddhu Of Couva (Derek Walcott Poems)
When sunset, a brass gong, vibrate through Couva, is then I see my soul, swiftly unsheathed, like a white cattle ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...