Leisure (Amy Lowell Poem)
Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age, When hours were long and days sufficed to hold Wide-eyed delights and pleasures ...
Poems about sufficed (21 Poems)
The Robe of Christ (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Cecil Chesterton) At the foot of the Cross on Calvary Three soldiers sat and diced, And one of them ...
Fragment of a Greek Tragedy (A. E. Housman Poem)
CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Whence by what way how purposed art thou come To ...
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 Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
A Dew sufficed itself — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Dew sufficed itself -- And satisfied a Leaf And felt "how vast a destiny" -- "How trivial is Life!" ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Divine Detachment (Robert William Service Poems)
One day the Great Designer sought His Clerk of Birth and Death. Said he: "Two souls are in my thought, ...
To Helen (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
(After Valery) O Sea! ... 'Tis I, risen from death once more To hear the waves' harmonious roar And see ...
Sonnet XXXVII (William Shakespeare Poems)
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by ...
Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight (William Shakespeare Poems)
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by ...
Interior Portrait (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
You don't survive in me because of memories; nor are you mine because of a lovely longing's strength. What does ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...