toll Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Wake Not for the World-Heard Thunder (A. E. Housman Poem)

Wake not for the world-heard thunder, Nor the chimes that earthquakes toll; Stars may plot in heaven with planet, Lightning ...

The Flaâneur (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)

I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...

Martha (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)

SEXTON! Martha's dead and gone; Toll the bell! toll the bell! Her weary hands their labor cease; Good night, poor ...

THE PRESENT; OR, THE BAG OF THE BEE: (Robert Herrick Poem)

Fly to my mistress, pretty pilfering bee, And say thou bring'st this honey-bag from me; When on her lip thou ...

His Litany to the Holy Spirit (Robert Herrick Poem)

In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit comfort me! ...

Litany to the Holy Spirit (Robert Herrick Poem)

IN the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! ...

A Ballad of Hell (John Davidson Poem)

'A letter from my love to-day! Oh, unexpected, dear appeal!' She struck a happy tear away, And broke the crimson ...

Robert Browning (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

How blind the toil that burrows like the mole, In winding graveyard pathways underground, For Browning's lineage! What if men ...

Life (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

Let me but live my life from year to year, With forward face and unreluctant soul; Not hurrying to, nor ...

Glee — The great storm is over — (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Glee -- The great storm is over -- Four -- have recovered the Land -- Forty -- gone down together ...

There is no Frigate like a Book (Emily Dickinson Poem)

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing ...

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (Emily Dickinson Poem)

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading -- treading -- till it seemed ...

Worthy Places (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

There were some worthy places where we could escape, avoid the heavy weight of living in a densely peopled space; ...

Possums came at night (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...

Does the name toll a bell? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...

Being old in the game (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

It was a half-life that seemed like a genuine world wielding hard symbolism over those who ruled it; we lived ...

On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture (William Cowper Poems)

Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...

On The Loss Of The Royal George (William Cowper Poem)

Written when the news arrived. Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave ...

Love Constrained to Obedience (William Cowper Poem)

No strength of nature can suffice To serve the Lord aright: And what she has she misapplies, For want of ...

The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)

THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...

Youth And Age (Samuel Coleridge Poem)

Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where HOPE clung feeding, like a bee-- Both were mine ! Life went a-maying ...

Gilbert (Charlotte Bronte Poem)

I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...

Freedom (Ambrose Bierce Poem)

Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. ...

Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)

'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...

The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers (Conrad Aiken Poem)

Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers The golden lights go out . . . The yellow windows darken, ...

The House Of Dust: Part 01: 03: One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand (Conrad Aiken Poem)

One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand, With wave upon slowly shattering wave, Turned to the city ...

Senlin: His Dark Origins (Conrad Aiken Poem)

1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...

Senlin: His Futile Preoccupations (Conrad Aiken Poem)