Prologue, Intended for “Vortigern” (Henry James Pye Poems)
The cause with learn'd investigation fraught,Behold at length to this tribunal brought,No fraud your penetrating eyes can cheat,None here can ...
Poems about spelt (20 Poems)
Why? (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
A SWEET white flower peepedUp from a glade,Laughingly tossed its bellTo the breeze that played,Shrinkingly drooped and fell;--Why did it ...
Tr (Philip Larkin Poems)
In this dream that dogs me I am partOf a silent crowd walking under a wall,Leaving a football match, perhaps, ...
They Said (Lucy Larcom Poems)
They said of her, "She never can have feltThe sorrows that our deeper natures feel":They said, "Her placid lips have ...
The Hermit (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
High on the hoary mountain-top he dweltAlone with God, whose handiwork aboveThe wonders of the firmament approveIn an eternal silence. ...
The Thrush In February (George Meredith Poems)
I know him, February's thrush,And loud at eve he valentinesOn sprays that paw the naked bushWhere soon will sprout the ...
Paddy Malone in Australia (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Och ! my name's Pat Malone, and I'm from Tipperary. Sure, I don't know it now, I'm so ...
A Fallen Yew (Francis Thompson Poems)
It seemed corrival of the world's great prime,Made to un-edge the scythe of Time,And last with stateliest rhyme.No tender Dryad ...
The Story Without End (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Before my time my kindred were As felons in their land, Because they claimed the liberty That freemen understand. Ere ...
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Träumerei (Philip Larkin Poem)
In this dream that dogs me I am part Of a silent crowd walking under a wall, Leaving a football ...
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray Poem)
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
I Fellowed Sleep (Dylan Thomas Poems)
I fellowed sleep who kissed me in the brain, Let fall the tear of time; the sleeper's eye, Shifting to ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...
The Three Bares (Robert William Service Poems)
Ma tried to wash her garden slacks but couldn't get 'em clean And so she thought she'd soak 'em in ...
To My Name-Child (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
1 Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed, Little Louis Sanchez, will be given you ...
The Man Against the Sky (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
Jangling Memory (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
Heavens above! here's an old tie of your-- Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground. Ha! Ha! Ha! What children ...