The Lamp of Life (Amy Lowell Poem)
Always we are following a light, Always the light recedes; with groping hands We stretch toward this glory, while the ...
Poems about unknowing (31 Poems)
The Science Of The Night (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
I touch you in the night, whose gift was you, My careless sprawler, And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused, ...
To the Unknown Goddess (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my sould going out from afar? Shall I fall to your hand ...
The Song of the Women (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
How shall she know the worship we would do her? The walls are high, and she is very far. How ...
Observation Car (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket, Then the station slid backward, the shops and ...
My Cicely (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory ...
Ditty (Thomas Hardy Poem)
(E. L. G.) BENEATH a knap where flown Nestlings play, Within walls of weathered stone, Far away From the files ...
The Going (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, ...
THE SHEPHERD’S LAMENT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
ON yonder lofty mountain A thousand times I stand, And on my staff reclining, Look down on the smiling land. ...
Wild Orphan (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Blandly mother takes him strolling by railroad and by river --he's the son of the absconded hot rod angel-- and ...
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
Saadi (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
Sonnet XLIII: Why Should Your Fair Eyes (Michael Drayton Poem)
Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace Disperse their rays on every vulgar spirit, Whilst I in darkness, ...
Love (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his ...
The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Sonnet: Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire Of watching you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and ...
In Examination (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Lo! from quiet skies In through the window my Lord the Sun! And my eyes Were dazzled and drunk with ...
The Night Journey (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Hands and lit faces eddy to a line; The dazed last minutes click; the clamour dies. Beyond the great-swung arc ...
Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire Of watching you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and ...
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill (Lord Byron Poem)
And thou wert sad-yet I was not with thee! And thou wert sick, and yet I was not near; Methought ...
Darkness (Lord Byron Poem)
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
The Dream (Lord Byron Poem)
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
West London (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Crouch'd on the pavement close by Belgrave Square A tramp I saw, ill, moody, and tongue-tied; A babe was in ...
363. Song-My Native Land sae far awa (Robert Burns Poems)
O SAD and heavy, should I part, But for her sake, sae far awa; Unknowing what my way may thwart, ...
319. Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn (Robert Burns Poems)
THE WIND blew hollow frae the hills, By fits the sun's departing beam Look'd on the fading yellow woods, That ...
Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Exposed on the cliffs of the heart. Look, how tiny down there, look: the last village of words and, higher, ...
Universal Prayer (Alexander Pope Poems)
Father of all! In every age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or ...
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (Alexander Pope Poems)
What beck'ning ghost, along the moon-light shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? 'Tis she!--but why that bleeding ...
I Am Vertical (Sylvia Plath Poems)
But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil Sucking up minerals ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...