Inscription For An Ice-House (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
Stranger, approach! within this iron doorThrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneathThat vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confinedBy ...
Poems about spindle (21 Poems)
O Turn Once More (Duncan Campbell Scott Poems)
O turn once more! The meadows where we mused and strayed togetherAbound and glow yet with the ruby sorrel;'Twas there ...
Leaf-Time (David Gow Poems)
THE blackbird spheral music makes Like Chrysostom with golden mouth;Slowly the flowering cherry breaks ...
On Lucy, Countess of Bedford (Ben Jonson Poems)
This morning, timely rapt with holy fire,I thought to form unto my zealous Muse What kind of creature I could ...
The Three Fates (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Up in the cave of the wind, All bent and crabbed with their years, In endless chatter they sit, Old ...
A Fantasy (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
I saw Winter 'neath a spindle tree, She plucked berries bright to crown her head. She was singing little robin's ...
from…….. (Ben Jonson Poems)
The owl is abroad,the bat and the toad,And so is the cat-a mountain,The ant and the mole sit both in ...
Having it Out with Melancholy (Jane Kenyon Poem)
1FROM THE NURSERY When I was born, you waited behind a pile of linen in the nursery, and when we ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
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 ...
The Italian In England (Robert Browning Poem)
That second time they hunted me From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And Austria, hounding far and wide ...
147. Address to a Haggis (Robert Burns Poems)
FAIR fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, ...
His Bargain (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Who talks of Plato's spindle; What set it whirling round? Eternity may dwindle, Time is unwound, Dan and Jerry Lout ...
Ballade De Marguerite (Normande) (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I am weary of lying within the chase When the knights are meeting in market-place. Nay, go not thou to ...
The Lay Of The Bell (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the birth The ...
The Witch Of Atlas (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) (Alexander Pope Poems)
He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part; At home he ...
Kiss (Ruth Padel Poems)
He's gone. She can't believe it, can't go on. She's going to give up painting. So she paints Her final ...
Tristia (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
I have studied the Science of departures, in night's sorrows, when a woman's hair falls down. The oxen chew, there's ...
The Victor Dog (James Merrill Poems)
Bix to Buxtehude to Boulez, The little white dog on the Victor label Listens long and hard as he is ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...