450. Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice (Robert Burns Poem)
HOW cold is that bosom which folly once fired, How pale is that cheek where the rouge lately glisten'd; How ...
Poems about tear (50 Poems)
307. Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson (Robert Burns Poem)
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody! The meikle devil wi' a woodie Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie, ...
177. Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair (Robert Burns Poem)
THE LAMP of day, with-ill presaging glare, Dim, cloudy, sank beneath the western wave; Th' inconstant blast howl'd thro' the ...
Chemin De Fer (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Alone on the railroad track I walked with pounding heart. The ties were too close together or maybe too far ...
Florida (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
The Man-Moth (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for "mammoth." Here, above, cracks in the buldings are filled with battered moonlight. The whole shadow of ...
Agatha (Alfred Austin Poem)
SHE wanders in the April woods, That glisten with the fallen shower; She leans her face against the buds, She ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 07: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light (Conrad Aiken Poem)
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 12: Witches’ Sabbath (Conrad Aiken Poems)
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 02: Death: And A Derisive Chorus (Conrad Aiken Poem)
The door is shut. She leaves the curtained office, And down the grey-walled stairs comes trembling slowly Towards the dazzling ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 09: Interlude (Conrad Aiken Poem)
The days, the nights, flow one by one above us, The hours go silently over our lifted faces, We are ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01: As evening falls (Conrad Aiken Poem)
As evening falls, And the yellow lights leap one by one Along high walls; And along black streets that glisten ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 01: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light (Conrad Aiken Poem)
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the ...
An Evening (William Allingham Poem)
A sunset's mounded cloud; A diamond evening-star; Sad blue hills afar; Love in his shroud. Scarcely a tear to shed; ...
A Dog After Love (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
After you left me I let a dog smell at My chest and my belly. It will fill its nose ...
Try To Remember Some Details (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
Try to remember some details. Remember the clothing of the one you love so that on the day of loss ...
The Forsaken Merman (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...
173. Elegy on Stella (Robert Burns Poem)
STRAIT is the spot and green the sod From whence my sorrows flow; And soundly sleeps the ever dear Inhabitant ...
218. Song-Talk of him that’s Far Awa (Robert Burns Poems)
MUSING on the roaring ocean, Which divides my love and me; Wearying heav'n in warm devotion, For his weal where'er ...
509. Song-Fragment-There was a Bonie Lass (Robert Burns Poems)
THERE was a bonie lass, and a bonie, bonie lass, And she lo'ed her bonie laddie dear; Till War's loud ...
501. The Solemn League and Covenant (Robert Burns Poems)
THE SOLEMN League and Covenant Now brings a smile, now brings a tear; But sacred Freedom, too, was theirs: If ...
113. A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. (Robert Burns Poems)
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
118. A Bard’s Epitaph (Robert Burns Poems)
IS there a whim-inspirèd fool, Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to ...
373. Song-The Slave’s Lament (Robert Burns Poems)
IT was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthral, For the lands of Virginia,-ginia, O: Torn from that ...
153. Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet (Robert Burns Poems)
NO 1 sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, "No storied urn nor animated bust;" This simple stone directs pale Scotia's ...
137. Song-Farewell to the Banks of Ayr (Robert Burns Poems)
THE GLOOMY night is gath'ring fast, Loud roars the wild, inconstant blast, Yon murky cloud is foul with rain, I ...
116. On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies (Robert Burns Poems)
A' YE wha live by sowps o' drink, A' ye wha live by crambo-clink, A' ye wha live and never ...
41. Epistle to John Rankine (Robert Burns Poems)
O ROUGH, rude, ready-witted Rankine, The wale o' cocks for fun an' drinkin! There's mony godly folks are thinkin, Your ...
28. Poor Mailie’s Elegy (Robert Burns Poems)
LAMENT in rhyme, lament in prose, Wi' saut tears trickling down your nose; Our bardie's fate is at a close, ...
351. Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Robert Burns Poems)
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...