To Immortal Music (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
NAY, Music, thou art young! Not long ago Thou hadst but rounded to thy perfect form, Thy virginal, sweet heart ...
Poems about subtlety (21 Poems)
Darkness (Aldous Huxley Poems)
My close-walled soul has never knownThat innermost darkness, dazzling sight,Like the blind point, whence the visions springIn the core of ...
Rondeau (Francoise Villon Poems)
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,Lord, and everlasting light,He wasn't worth a candle bright,Nor even a sprig of parsley.Of eyebrows, ...
The Peace Of Dives (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay: "Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim ...
The Nightingale (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
Saadi (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
Hysteria (T. S. Eliot Poem)
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Tunbridge Wells (John Wilmot Poems)
At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head From Thetis' lap, I raised myself from bed, And mounting steed, ...
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment A (Christopher Smart Poems)
Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every ...
Jubilate Agno (excerpt) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
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 ...
from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving ...
from Venus and Adonis (William Shakespeare Poems)
But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by, A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud, Adonis' trampling courser doth ...
Isaac and Archibald (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Corn (Sidney Lanier Poems)
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...