Into the Icy Sea (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We all took tentative, cautious steps into the icy sea Unsure of the wisdom of our temporary sojourn walking out ...
Poems about sting (48 Poems)
A Wailing Choir (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Three young siren's all peeling in pain, of their own making set off by a punishment an accounting for misbehavior ...
Buzz (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Buzz In my ear Behind my glasses In my mouth. Landing on my arm, neck, face, clothes Oh, let me ...
The wind (Eugene Field Poem)
(THE TALE) Cometh the Wind from the garden, fragrant and full of sweet singing-- Under my tree where I sit ...
The straw parlor (Eugene Field Poem)
Way up at the top of a big stack of straw Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw! And ...
Little miss brag (Eugene Field Poem)
Little Miss Brag has much to say To the rich little lady from over the way And the rich little ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
The Lyon And The Gnat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately Pace, ...
From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Catch (Robert Francis Poem)
Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together, Overhand, underhand, backhand, sleight of hand, everyhand, Teasing with attitudes, latitudes, interludes, ...
When it was autumn in Eden (Ian Emberson Poem)
When it was autumn in Eden and chestnuts held golden leaves against dimming light , Eve touched her toes on ...
Nymphidia, The Court Of Fairy (excerpts) (Michael Drayton Poem)
But let us leave Queen Mab a while, Through many a gate, o'er many a stile, That now had gotten ...
Frederick Douglass (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...
Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind ...
None can experience sting (Emily Dickinson Poem)
None can experience sting Who Bounty -- have not known -- The fact of Famine -- could not be Except ...
Love — is that later Thing than Death — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Love -- is that later Thing than Death -- More previous -- than Life -- Confirms it at its entrance ...
A little bread — a crust — a crumb (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A little bread -- a crust -- a crumb -- A little trust -- a demijohn -- Can keep the ...
If you were coming in the Fall, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, ...
Fame is a bee. (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Fame is a bee. It has a song -- It has a sting -- Ah, too, it has a wing. ...
You love me — you are sure (Emily Dickinson Poem)
You love me -- you are sure -- I shall not fear mistake -- I shall not cheated wake -- ...
Talk to me of love (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Talk to me of love with wonder in your eyes, of limber magic flying through the veiling air and soft-edged ...
The Last Man (Thomas Campbell Poem)
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
The New Convert (William Cowper Poem)
The new-born child of gospel grace, Like some fair tree when summer's nigh, Beneath Emmanuel's shining face Lifts up his ...
The Task: Book VI, The Winter Walk at Noon (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
Once there was a man (Stephen Crane Poem)
Once there was a man -- Oh, so wise! In all drink He detected the bitter, And in all touch ...
Remembrances (John Clare Poem)
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Pain (Thomas Edward Brown Poem)
The Man that hath great griefs I pity not; 'Tis something to be great In any wise, and hint the ...
Pilate’s Wife’s Dream (Charlotte Bronte Poems)
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
Prisoner, The – (A Fragment) (Emily Bronte Poem)
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...