The Grocery (Amy Lowell Poem)
"Hullo, Alice!" "Hullo, Leon!" "Say, Alice, gi' me a couple O' them two for five cigars, Will yer?" "Where's your ...
Poems about shamed (30 Poems)
Days of 1986 (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
He was believed by his peers to be an important poet, But his erotic obsession, condemned and strictly forbidden, Compromised ...
The Merchantmen (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
The Coastwise Lights (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
The Ballad of the Red Earl (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(It is not for them to criticize too minutely the methods the Irish followed, though they might deplore some of ...
Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter (Thomas Hardy Poem)
These numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry Outskeleton Time's central city, Rome; Whereof each arch, entablature, and dome Lies bare ...
The Supplanter: A Tale (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I He bends his travel-tarnished feet To where she wastes in clay: From day-dawn until eve he fares Along the ...
Her Dilemma (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THE two were silent in a sunless church, Whose mildewed walls, uneven paving-stones, And wasted carvings passed antique research; And ...
Uriel (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...
Accountability (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
FOLKS ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits; Him dat giv' de squir'ls de bushtails made ...
When Malindy Sings (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy-- Put dat music book away; What's de use to keep on tryin'? Ef ...
I was the slightest in the House (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I was the slightest in the House -- I took the smallest Room -- At night, my little Lamp, and ...
I should have been too glad, I see (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I should have been too glad, I see -- Too lifted -- for the scant degree Of Life's penurious Round ...
The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Unfortunate (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Heart, you are restless as a paper scrap That's tossed down dusty pavements by the wind; Saying, "She is most ...
Success (Rupert Brooke Poem)
I think if you had loved me when I wanted; If I'd looked up one day, and seen your eyes, ...
Pan and Luna (Robert Browning Poem)
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
To A Friend (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind?-- He much, the old man, who, clearest-souled of men, Saw ...
Modern Love VI: It Chanced His Lips Did Meet (George Meredith Poems)
It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool. She had no blush, but slanted down her eye. Shamed nature, ...
Modern Love XLII: I Am to Follow Her (George Meredith Poems)
I am to follow her. There is much grace In woman when thus bent on martyrdom. They think that dignity ...
At the Long Sault (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
A prisoner under the stars I lie, With no friend near; To-morrow they lead me forth to die, The stake ...
Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery (William Morris Poems)
It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six ...
The Hope Of My Heart (John McCrae Poems)
"Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus, quoesumus ne memineris, Domine." I left, to earth, a little maiden fair, With locks of ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
C.L.M. (John Masefield Poems)
IN the dark womb where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human ...
The Old House (Amy Levy Poems)
In through the porch and up the silent stair; Little is changed, I know so well the ways;-- Here, the ...
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 ...
Epitaphs For Two Players (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
The Power Of Prayer (Sidney Lanier Poems)
or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, ...