Vers De Société (Philip Larkin Poem)
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd ...
Poems about shorter (29 Poems)
The Captain of the Push (Henry Lawson Poem)
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped the ...
Book Ends (Tony Harrison Poem)
I Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you're ...
Gone (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
IN Collins Street standeth a statute tall, A statue tall, on a pillar of stone, Telling its story, to great ...
Come, Lord Jesus, Come – 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As the days grow shorter the time soon upon us in the lighting of each candle closer to Your coming ...
His face set on Jerusalem (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
After the transfiguration there was a change in his manner an urgency, impatience time was suddenly short, shorter he had ...
The Hermit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
Alphonso Of Castile (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I Alphonso live and learn, Seeing nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind, Lemons run to leaves and rind, Meagre ...
There comes a warning like a spy (Emily Dickinson Poem)
There comes a warning like a spy A shorter breath of Day A stealing that is not a stealth And ...
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants -- At Evening, it is not -- At Morning, in a Truffled Hut ...
Summer is shorter than any one — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Summer is shorter than any one -- Life is shorter than Summer -- Seventy Years is spent as quick As ...
Consulting summer’s clock, (Emily Dickinson Poems)
Consulting summer's clock, But half the hours remain. I ascertain it with a shock -- I shall not look again. ...
Uncertain lease — develops lustre (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Uncertain lease -- develops lustre On Time Uncertain Grasp, appreciation Of Sum -- The shorter Fate -- is oftener the ...
Because I could not stop for Death (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. ...
It seldom snowed – Part II (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed in Camp they said, on the mountains, yes, and in the Styx, aka zone six. That's where ...
The Shakespeare Memorial (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten That Shakespeare should be quite forgotten, And therefore got on a Committee With several ...
The Poplar Field (William Cowper Poem)
The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade: The winds play no ...
The Improvisatore (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Wednesday (Marvin Bell Poem)
Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon. The carp lay on the bottom, resting, while dusk took ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
370. Song-Sic a Wife as Willie had (Robert Burns Poem)
WILLIE WASTLE dwalt on Tweed, The spot they ca'd it Linkumdoddie; Willie was a wabster gude, Could stown a clue ...
Love and the Gentle Heart (Dante Alighieri Poem)
Love and the gentle heart are one thing, just as the poet says in his verse, each from the other ...
89. The Ordination (Robert Burns Poems)
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...
Mother and Poet (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the ...
Who is Kator Anyhow? (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Why, oh why was Kater lifted From the darkness, where he drifted All unknown, and raised to honour, Side by ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...