A Lucky Day (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Three signs of completeness holy perfection, three sevens, month, day, year all aligned, all balances, sevens across the board What ...
Poems about signs (44 Poems)
New Growth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
new shoots, yearning to grow to gather in March sun, warmth after winter's slumber rising from the good soil the ...
A Field of Scat (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Late January, in the cold clear wood Boots crunch through layers of snow and ice Breath catches in beard and ...
The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
The Shepherd And The Calm (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Soothing his Passions with a warb'ling Sound, A Shepherd-Swain lay stretch'd upon the Ground; Whilst all were mov'd, who their ...
II. The Pauper Witch of Grafton (Robert Frost Poem)
Now that they've got it settled whose I be, I'm going to tell them something they won't like: They've got ...
The Egg and the Machine (Robert Frost Poem)
He gave the solid rail a hateful kick. From far away there came an answering tick And then another tick. ...
The Recumbent Posture (Marriott Edgar Poem)
The day after Christmas, young Albert Were what's called, confined to his bed, With a tight kind of pain in ...
Asparagus (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Mr. Ramsbottom went to the races, A thing as he'd ne'er done before, And as luck always follers beginners, Won ...
I Cannot be Known (Paul Eluard Poem)
I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for ...
Hunted (Paul Eluard Poem)
A few grains of dust more or less On ancient shoulders Locks of weakness on weary foreheads This theatre of ...
The Forerunners (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Long I followed happy guides,- I could never reach their sides. Their step is forth, and, ere the day, Breaks ...
Initial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Celestial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
Sonnet XIII: Letters and Lines (Michael Drayton Poem)
To the Shadow Letters and lines we see are soon defac'd, Metals do waste and fret with canker's rust, The ...
Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified (John Donne Poem)
If faithful souls be alike glorified As angels, then my fathers soul doth see, And adds this even to full ...
They put Us far apart (Emily Dickinson Poem)
They put Us far apart -- As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula -- We signified "These see" -- ...
If I may have it, when it’s dead, (Emily Dickinson Poems)
If I may have it, when it's dead, I'll be contented -- so -- If just as soon as Breath ...
“Heaven” has different Signs — to me — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
"Heaven" has different Signs -- to me -- Sometimes, I think that Noon Is but a symbol of the Place ...
Night’s sentinel (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
To the Ladies. (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
WIFE and servant are the same, But only differ in the name : For when that fatal knot is ty'd, ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Longing to be with Christ (William Cowper Poem)
To Jesus, the crown of my hope, My soul is in haste to be gone; O bear me, ye cherubim, ...
To Delia: On Her Endeavouring To Conceal Her Grief At Parting (William Cowper Poem)
Ah! wherefore should my weeping maid suppress Those gentle signs of undissembled woe? When from soft love proceeds the deep ...
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy ...
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 ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...