Birds Of Passage (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Black shadows fall From the lindens tall, That lift aloft their massive wall Against the southern sky; And from the ...
Poems about throngs (31 Poems)
How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! (John Keats Poem)
How many bards gild the lapses of time! A few of them have ever been the food Of my delighted ...
Henry Purcell (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
The poet wishes well to the divine genius of Purcell and praises him that, whereas other musicians have given utterance ...
Spelt From Sibyl’s Leaves (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, ... stupendous Evening strains to be tíme's vást, ' womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night. ...
“I Have Lived With Shades” (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I I have lived with shades so long, And talked to them so oft, Since forth from cot and croft ...
I Have Lived With Shades (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I I have lived with Shades so long, So long have talked to them, I sped to street and throng, ...
During Wind And Rain (Thomas Hardy Poem)
They sing their dearest songs -- He, she, all of them -- yea, Treble and tenor and bass, And one ...
Two Infants II (Khalil Gibran Poem)
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let ...
The Beauty of Death XIV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Part One - The Calling Let me sleep, for my soul is intoxicated with love and Let me rest, for ...
The City of the Dead XX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Yesterday I drew myself from the noisome throngs and proceeded into the field until I reached a knoll upon which ...
The Criminal V (Khalil Gibran Poem)
A young man of strong body, weakened by hunger, sat on the walker's portion of the street stretching his hand ...
Compensation (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Why should I keep holiday, When other men have none? Why but because when these are gay, I sit and ...
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...
Portrait and Reality (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
If on the closed curtain of my sight My fancy paints thy portrait far away, I see thee still the ...
White Nassau (Bliss Carman Poem)
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
To A Lady (Lord Byron Poem)
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token, These follies had not, then, ...
Dream Song 127: Again, his friend’s death made the man sit still (John Berryman Poems)
Again, his friend's death made the man sit still and freeze insideâ?"his daughter won first priceâ?" his wife scowled over ...
Beacons (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
Reubens, river of forgetfulness, garden of sloth, Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love, But where life throngs and ...
Over the Sea our Galleys Went (Robert Browning Poem)
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
The Wanderers (Robert Browning Poem)
OVER the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave To a speeding wind and a bounding wave-- ...
These Little Songs (William Allingham Poem)
These little Songs, Found here and there, Floating in air By forest and lea, Or hill-side heather, In houses and ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs, There stands a ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 (Alexander Pope Poems)
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
The Three Songs (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
The poet sang of a battle-field Where doughty deeds were done, Where stout blows rang on helm and shield And ...
L’Allegro (John Milton Poems)
Hence, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights ...
The Booker Washington Trilogy (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...
Destiny (Emma Lazarus Poems)
1856 Paris, from throats of iron, silver, brass, Joy-thundering cannon, blent with chiming bells, And martial strains, the full-voiced pæan ...