Fitz Adam’s Story (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The next whose fortune 'twas a tale to tellWas one whom men, before they thought, loved well,And after thinking wondered ...
Poems about spinsters (19 Poems)
Prothalamion (Horace Smith Poems)
Nothing so true as what you once let fall,--"To growl at something is the lot of all;Contentment is a gem ...
All the Rage (Hattie Howard Poems)
A common wayside flower it grew, Unhandsome and unnoticed too, Except in deprecation That such an herb unreared by toil, Prolific cumberer of the ...
University (Karl Shapiro Poems)
To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum. In mid-SeptemberThe entering boys, identified by hats,Wander in a maze ...
Spring In The Alps (Mathilde Blind Poems)
THE flowers are at their Bacchanals Among the lusty green;Wild Orchis and Narcissus waltz With Marguerite for queen.Birds join in glees and ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto II (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto I (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...
And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of Isis (David Gascoyne Poems)
1white curtains of infinite fatiguedominating the starborn heritage of the colonies of St Franciswhite curtains of tortured destiniesinheriting the calamities ...
Ballad Of Women I Love (Eugene Field Poems)
Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate Hid away in an oaken chest,And a Franklin platter of ancient date Beareth ...
Trees (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Though each one has a head of wood,Theirs is a wiser brotherhoodThan any man has understood:The giant sequoia, with his ...
A Parody (Charles Lamb Poems)
Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, wake up and peep;The Cat's in the cupboard, your Mother's asleep.There you sit snoring, forgetting her ills:Who is ...
A Wreath Of Sonnets (6/14) (France Preseren Poems)
Unblest by soothing winds of warmer days, My songs remain, since from you, haughty maid, They never won the word ...
Dear Colette (Erica Jong Poem)
Dear Colette, I want to write to you about being a woman for that is what you write to me. ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Envoy (Eugene Field Poem)
Prince, show me the quickest way and best To gain the subject of my moan; We've neither spinsters nor relics ...
Ballad of women i love (Eugene Field Poem)
Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate Hid away in an oaken chest, And a Franklin platter of ancient date ...
Sabbaths, W.I. (Derek Walcott Poems)
Those villages stricken with the melancholia of Sunday, in all of whose ocher streets one dog is sleeping those volcanoes ...
Skipper Ireson’s Ride (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, - On Apuleius' Golden ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...