tossed Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

A Lobster Pot (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

A lobster pot tossed by the sea onto the rocks wedged in the jetty between the boulders of the breakwater ...

Yvytot (Eugene Field Poem)

Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...

The Nightingale (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...

St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)

TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...

The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)

1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...

A Brook in the City (Robert Frost Poem)

The firm house lingers, though averse to square With the new city street it has to wear A number in. ...

The Hill Wife (Robert Frost Poem)

I. LONELINESS Her Word One ought not to have to care So much as you and I Care when the ...

My Butterfly (Robert Frost Poem)

Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too, And the daft sun-assaulter, he That frightened thee so oft, is fled or ...

Tree At My Window (Robert Frost Poem)

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain ...

Pan with Us (Robert Frost Poem)

Pan came out of the woods one day,-- His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray, The gray ...

The Death of the Hired Man (Robert Frost Poem)

Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on ...

The Battle of Hastings (Marriott Edgar Poem)

I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...

Gunner Joe (Marriott Edgar Poem)

I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...

George and the Dragon (Marriott Edgar Poem)

I'll tell you the tale of an old country pub As fancied itself up to date, It had the word ...

Good-by (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

Good-by, proud world, I'm going home, Thou'rt not my friend, and I'm not thine; Long through thy weary crowds I ...

Preludes (T. S. Eliot Poem)

I THE WINTER evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. ...

Doth Then The World Go Thus? (William Drummond Poem)

Doth then the world go thus? doth all thus move? Is this the justice which on earth we find? Is ...

The Foolish Fir-Tree (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...

Late Spring (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

I Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Why the sweet Spring delays, And where she hides, -- ...

The Bistro Styx (Rita Dove Poem)

She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...

Three times — we parted — Breath — and I — (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Three times -- we parted -- Breath -- and I -- Three times -- He would not go -- But ...

It tossed — and tossed — (Emily Dickinson Poem)

It tossed -- and tossed -- A little Brig I knew -- o'ertook by Blast -- It spun -- and ...

I cannot dance upon my Toes (Emily Dickinson Poem)

I cannot dance upon my Toes -- No Man instructed me -- But oftentimes, among my mind, A Glee possesseth ...

Endurance (Peter Conners Poem)

Indeed. These jagged crevasses of the psyche are treacherous, gray. Extending two hundred plus days in every direction; an ominous ...

Arhan (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossoms ...

Arhan (Aleister Crowley Poem)