Obituary (Allen Tate Poems)
In memory of S. B. V., 1834-1909... so what the lame four-poster gathered hereBetween the lips of stale and seasoned ...
Poems about startles (21 Poems)
In the Wings (Bliss William Carman Poems)
THE play is Life; and this round earthThe narrow stage whereonWe act before an audienceOf actors dead and gone.There is ...
Bartol (Amos Bronson Alcott Poems)
POET of the Pulpit, whose full-chorded lyre Startles the churches from their slumbers late, Discoursing music, mixed with lofty ire ...
March (Charles Granville Poems)
What ! Spring's not born? And twenty sparrows Now are twittering In every bush of thorn? The snowdrop's here - ...
Solitude (Archibald Lampman Poems)
How still it is here in the woods. The treesStand motionless, as if they did not dareTo stir, lest it ...
THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms; But front their silent ...
The Young British Soldier (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell (John Keats Poem)
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb ...
To Solitude (John Keats Poem)
O solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb ...
Grace (Forrest Hamer Poem)
This air is flooded with her. I am a boy again, and my mother and I lie on wet grass, ...
Hymn to Pan (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Come careering out of the night Of ...
Hymn to Pan (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Come careering out of the night Of ...
November (John Clare Poem)
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
Autumn Birds (John Clare Poem)
The wild duck startles like a sudden thought, And heron slow as if it might be caught. The flopping crows ...
87. The Twa Dogs (Robert Burns Poems)
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day ...
Blind Man’s Buff (William Blake Poems)
When silver snow decks Susan's clothes, And jewel hangs at th' shepherd's nose, The blushing bank is all my care, ...
Birds Calling in the Ravine (Wang Wei Poems)
I'm idle, as osmanthus flowers fall, This quiet night in spring, the hill is empty. The moon comes out and ...
Ravenna (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
This Compost. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest; I withdraw from the still woods I loved; I will ...
Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
Pheasant (Sylvia Plath Poems)
You said you would kill it this morning. Do not kill it. It startles me still, The jut of that ...