The Benefactors (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
Poems about trembles (31 Poems)
In January (Ted Kooser Poem)
Only one cell in the frozen hive of night is lit, or so it seems to us: this Vietnamese café, ...
Endymion: Book I (John Keats Poem)
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
The Artist as an Old Man (Erica Jong Poem)
If you ask him he will talk for hours-- how at fourteen he hammered signs, fingers raw with cold, and ...
What Counsel Has the Hooded Moon (James Joyce Poem)
What counsel has the hooded moon Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet, Of Love in ancient plenilune, Glory and ...
Jerome (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Each day brings its toad, each night its dragon. Der heilige Hieronymus--his lion is at the zoo-- Listens, listens. All ...
A Dedication (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, ...
Song (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the ...
Lifted Up (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Peter, sinking, captured by trouble, his doubt pulling him under falling below the waters, the waves, sinking, darkness Lifted up, ...
Even the Whirlwind (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
You, oh God vanquished the waters, the whirlwind, the chaos, the waters trying to drown me Through the waters I ...
To Death (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
O King of Terrors, whose unbounded Sway All that have Life, must certainly Obey; The King, the Priest, the Prophet, ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
The Voice of Robert Desnos (Robert Desnos Poem)
So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight ...
Sicily, December 1908 (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, -- Whose bluest billows kiss thy curving bays, Whose amorous light enfolds ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
The Song against Grocers (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
Lepanto (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
February (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
Exhortation to Prayer (William Cowper Poem)
What various hindrances we meet In coming to a mercy seat! Yet who that knows the worth of prayer, But ...
Four Riddles (Lewis Carroll Poem)
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
Djolan (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Soft was the night, the eve how airy, When through the big, fat dictionary I wandered on in careless ease, ...
Southern Mansion (Arna Bontemps Poem)
Poplars are standing there still as death And ghosts of dead men Meet their ladies walking Two by two beneath ...
Hymn To Death (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
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 ...
The Moose (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea ...
Love Lies Sleeping (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Earliest morning, switching all the tracks that cross the sky from cinder star to star, coupling the ends of streets ...
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 ...
242. The Poet’s Progress (Robert Burns Poem)
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...