Night Rhapsody (Robert Nichols Poems)
How beautiful it is to wake at night,When over all there reigns the ultimate spellOf complete silence, darkness absolute,To feel ...
Poems about solving (20 Poems)
The Poet, And His Interpreters (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
FULL of songs he woke one morning,Every song a weighty wonderHolding universal beingNewly dressed in words of thunder."Men shall hear ...
Table Song (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
O'ER me—how I cannot say,—Heav'nly rapture's growing.Will it help to guide my wayTo yon stars all-glowing?Yet that here I'd sooner ...
The Colorful Rose (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
You are not familiar with the hardships of solving enigmasO Beautiful Rose! Perhaps you do not have sublime feelings in ...
Evolutionary Hymn (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Lead us, Evolution, lead usUp the future's endless stair;Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.For stagnation is despair:Groping, guessing, ...
Hippodromani (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...
In an Almshouse (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
Oh the dear summer evening! How the air is mellow with the delicate breath of flowers and wafts of hay ...
An Inventor (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
Not yet! I thought this time 'twas done at last, the workings perfected, the life in it; and there's the ...
The Race (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
On the hill they are crowding together, In the stand they are crushing for room, Like midge-flies they swarm on ...
A Commonplace Song (George Essex Evans Poems)
Ebbs and flows the restless river In the city streetWhere the great nerve centres quiver, Where the pulses ...
Mallee Wife (C J Dennis Poems)
Home's best (she said), and the taleOf the hungering soil and the flail Of the sun and the shuddering threat ...
Trouble (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Trouble is an exerciserSent us by a Wisdom wiserThan the mind of man possesses.Doubts and dangers and distressesCome not purposely ...
Evolutionary Hymn (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future's endless stair; Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us. For stagnation ...
Ambulances (Philip Larkin Poem)
Closed like confessionals, they thread Loud noons of cities, giving back None of the glances they absorb. Light glossy grey, ...
Days (Philip Larkin Poem)
What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are ...
TABLE SONG. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[Composed for the merry party already mentioned, on the occasion of the departure for France of the hereditary prince, who ...
Threnody (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Ripening (Wendell Berry Poem)
The longer we are together the larger death grows around us. How many we know by now who are dead! ...
My Triumph (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The autumn-time has come; On woods that dream of bloom, And over purpling vines, The low sun fainter shines. The ...
With All Thy Gifts. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WITH all thy gifts, America, (Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,) Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee-With these, and ...