Aftermath (Amy Lowell Poem)
I learnt to write to you in happier days, And every letter was a piece I chipped From off my ...
Poems about soften (31 Poems)
The Poet’s Calendar (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues ...
Ode to the Northeast Wind (Charles Kingsley Poem)
Welcome, wild Northeaster! Shame it is to see Odes to every zephyr; Ne'er a verse to thee. Welcome, black Northeaster! ...
The Negro Boy (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poem)
Paupertas onus visa est grave. Cold blows the wind, and while the tear Bursts trembling from my swollen eyes, The ...
HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
Mind (Jorie Graham Poem)
The slow overture of rain, each drop breaking without breaking into the next, describes the unrelenting, syncopated mind. Not unlike ...
Hymn To Adversity (Thomas Gray Poem)
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The Bad affright, ...
Rain in the Square (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The news in Cairo rain in the square may it soften the hearts of the oppressors over there Wash them ...
Mud on Their Cloaks (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The mud on their cloaks the dust of the road laid down when they took them off dropping them before ...
Her Heritage (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A piece of her past conjured up in the haze of the burning sage, the haunting sounds of the wolf, ...
Child and mother (Eugene Field Poem)
O mother-my-love, if you'll give me your hand, And go where I ask you to wander, I will lead you ...
The Spleen (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
Alcidor (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
While Monarchs in stern Battle strove For proud Imperial Sway; Abandon'd to his milder Love, Within a silent peaceful Grove, ...
Gus: The Theatre Cat (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really ...
Sonnet XLV: Muses, Which Sadly Sit (Michael Drayton Poem)
Muses, which sadly sit about my chair, Drown'd in the tears extorted by my lines, With heavy sighs whilst thus ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
BOIREANN (Graham Burchell Poem)
They are both old Boireann and her she wants to remain in the car hunched regarding the other through the ...
VII. At a Village in Scotland…. (William Lisle Bowles Poem)
O NORTH! as thy romantic vales I leave, And bid farewell to each retiring hill, Where thoughtful fancy seems to ...
Pilate’s Wife’s Dream (Charlotte Bronte Poems)
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Prayer In Bad Weather (Charles Bukowski Poems)
by God, I don't know what to do. they're so nice to have around. they have a way of playing ...
Atalanta’s Race (William Morris Poems)
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
And Doth Not a Meeting Like This (Thomas Moore Poems)
And doth not a meeting like this make amends For all the long years I've been wandering away -- To ...
The Song of O’Ruark, Prince of Breffni (Thomas Moore Poems)
The valley lay smiling before me, Where lately I left her behind; Yet I trembled, and something hung o'er me, ...
Bedtime Story (Lisel Mueller Poems)
The moon lies on the river like a drop of oil. The children come to the banks to be healed ...
Monet Refuses The Operation (Lisel Mueller Poems)
Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Craving for Spring (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I wish it were spring in the world. Let it be spring! Come, bubbling, surging tide of sap! Come, rush ...