A Fairy Tale (Amy Lowell Poem)
On winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures. There before ...
Poems about unbidden (21 Poems)
Blackberry Eating (Galway Kinnell Poem)
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, ...
The Plea of the Simla Dancers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Too late, alas! the song To remedy the wrong; -- The rooms are taken from us, swept and garnished for ...
The Iron Gate (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
WHERE is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? Not unfamiliar to my ear his name, Nor yet unknown to many ...
Crime and Punishment chapter XII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
God of the Open Air (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
Remembrances (John Clare Poem)
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
XIV. On a Distant View of England. (William Lisle Bowles Poem)
AH! from my eyes the tears unbidden start, Albion! as now thy cliffs (that bright appear Far o'er the wave, ...
Past Days (Anne Bronte Poem)
'Tis strange to think, there was a time When mirth was not an empty name, When laughter really cheered the ...
Lines Written From Home (Anne Bronte Poem)
Though bleak these woods, and damp the ground With fallen leaves so thickly strown, And cold the wind that wanders ...
The Consolation (Anne Bronte Poem)
Though bleak these woods and damp the ground With fallen leaves so thickly strewn, And cold the wind that wanders ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Song For The Rainy Season (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Hidden, oh hidden in the high fog the house we live in, beneath the magnetic rock, rain-, rainbow-ridden, where blood-black ...
When You Come (Maya Angelou Poem)
When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, ...
To A Skylark (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In ...
Introspection (Kathleen Raine Poems)
If you go deep Into the heart What do you find there? Fear, fear, Fear of the jaws of the ...
The Adieu to Love (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
LOVE, I renounce thy tyrant sway, I mock thy fascinating art, MINE, be the calm unruffled day, That brings no ...
Sight (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Unseemly are the open eyes That watch the midnight sheep, That look upon the secret skies Nor close, abashed, in ...
Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) (William Matthews Poems)
The lump of coal my parents teased I'd find in my Christmas stocking turned out each year to be an ...
Song II: Have No Thought for Tomorrow (William Morris Poems)
Love is enough: have no thought for to-morrow If ye lie down this even in rest from your pain, Ye ...
An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ...