The Certainty of the Kingdom (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It will surely come growing in ways mysterious unknowable, how the seed becomes the grain hidden first underground then in ...
Poems about upright (39 Poems)
The Magnificent (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
The Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
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 Bear (Robert Frost Poem)
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
Canis Major (Robert Frost Poem)
The great Overdog That heavenly beast With a star in one eye Gives a leap in the east. He dances ...
Musketaquid (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
A Cooking Egg (T. S. Eliot Poem)
En l'an trentiesme do mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues... PIPIT sate upright in her chair Some distance ...
You cannot make Remembrance grow (Emily Dickinson Poem)
You cannot make Remembrance grow When it has lost its Root -- The tightening the Soil around And setting it ...
Pumpkins in our time (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For months on end the pumpkins lay at peace, their parent vines had all but browned and died although a ...
The Convert (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
After one moment when I bowed my head And the whole world turned over and came upright, And I came ...
Ye Flags of Picadilly (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
Ye flags of Piccadilly, Where I posted up and down, And wished myself so often Well away from you and ...
Sardis (William Cowper Poem)
(Revelations, iii. 1-6) "Write to Sardis," saith the Lord, "And write what He declares, He whose Spirit, and whose word, ...
The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
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 ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Four Days In Vermont (Robert Creeley Poem)
Window's tree trunk's predominant face a single eye-leveled hole where limb's torn off another larger contorts to swell growing in ...
Clemente’s Images (Robert Creeley Poems)
1) Sleeping birds, lead me, soft birds, be me inside this black room, back of the white moon. In the ...
Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
The house where I was born (03) (Yves Bonnefoy Poem)
I woke up, it was the house where I was born, It was night, trees were crowding On all sides ...
A Passer-by (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West, That fearest nor sea ...
From ‘The Testament of Beauty’ (Robert Seymour Bridges Poems)
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
In Thankful Remembrance for My Dear Husband’s Safe Arrival (Anne Bradstreet Poems)
What shall I render to Thy name Or how Thy praises speak? My thanks how shall I testify? O Lord, ...
Roman Fountain (Louise Bogan Poem)
Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air, Reach to its rest, ...
The Quality of Courage (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
EXOTIC PERFUME (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
WHEN with closed eyes in autumn's eves of gold I breathe the burning odours of your breast, Before my eyes ...
My Earlier Life (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
I've been home a long time among the vast porticos, Which the mariner sun has tinged with a million fires, ...