Thirty-nine (Eugene Field Poem)
O hapless day! O wretched day! I hoped you'd pass me by-- Alas, the years have sneaked away And all ...
Poems about survive (32 Poems)
On the Ruins of a Country Inn (Philip Freneau Poem)
WHERE now these mingled ruins lie A temple once to Bacchus rose, Beneath whose roof, aspiring high, Full many a ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Sonnet VI: How Many Paltry Things (Michael Drayton Poem)
How many paltry, foolish, painted things, That now is coaches trouble every street, Shall be forgotten, whom no Poet sings, ...
How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things (Michael Drayton Poem)
How many paltry foolish painted things, That now in coaches trouble every street, Shall be forgotten, whom no poet sings, ...
Unworthy of her Breast (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Unworthy of her Breast Though by that scathing test What Soul survive? By her exacting light How counterfeit the white ...
Time does go on — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Time does go on -- I tell it gay to those who suffer now -- They shall survive -- There ...
The reticent volcano keeps (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan -- Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature ...
Elizabeth told Essex (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Elizabeth told Essex That she could not forgive The clemency of Deity However -- might survive -- That secondary succor ...
I Mark Your Courage (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I had no profound feelings of shock or surprise to those matter-of-fact revelations which spelled the end of this chapter ...
Don’t talk to me of War (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
Don't talk to me of War or stalk the ground our fabled soldiers died upon, I'm sound of limb and ...
Dead poet (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I'm sure it would be easier to survive as a dead poet, I mean it in the surmise that I ...
Song: Eternity of Love Protested (Thomas Carew Poem)
How ill doth he deserve a lover's name, Whose pale weak flame Cannot retain His heat, in spite of absence ...
The Curtain (Hayden Carruth Poem)
Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing. One can hear it always. Earthquake, starvation, ...
Community Garden (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poem)
I watch the man bend over his patch, a fat gunny sack at his feet. He combs the earth with ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
He Said To (Marvin Bell Poem)
crawl toward the machine guns except to freeze for explosions and flares. It was still ninety degrees at night in ...
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 ...
My young son asks me… (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics? What is the use, I feel like saying. That two pieces ...
A Dialogue between Old England and New (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte (Lord Byron Poem)
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
Epistle To Augusta (Lord Byron Poem)
My sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine; Mountains and seas divide ...
Darkness (Lord Byron Poem)
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
Dream Song 73: Karensui, Ryoan-ji (John Berryman Poem)
The taxi makes the vegetables fly. 'Dozo kudasai,' I have him wait. Past the bright lake up into the temple, ...
Dream Song 16: Henry’s pelt was put on sundry walls (John Berryman Poems)
Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls where it did much resemble Henry and them persons was delighted. Especially his ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
Inferno Canto 01 (Dante Alighieri Poem)
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ch? la diritta via era smarrita . ...
Conversation (Ai Poem)
We smile at each other and I lean back against the wicker couch. How does it feel to be dead? ...
432. Song-Behold the hour, etc. (Second Version) (Robert Burns Poems)
BEHOLD the hour, the boat arrive; Thou goest, the darling of my heart; Sever'd from thee, can I survive, But ...
361. Song-Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive (Robert Burns Poems)
BEHOLD the hour, the boat, arrive! My dearest Nancy, O fareweel! Severed frae thee, can I survive, Frae thee whom ...