TO HIS DYING BROTHER, MASTER WILLIAM HERRICK (Robert Herrick Poem)
Life of my life, take not so soon thy flight, But stay the time till we have bade good-night. Thou ...
Poems about urn (31 Poems)
HIS RETURN TO LONDON (Robert Herrick Poem)
From the dull confines of the drooping west, To see the day spring from the pregnant east, Ravish'd in spirit, ...
The Casterbridge Captains (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THREE captains went to Indian wars, And only one returned: Their mate of yore, he singly wore The laurels all ...
LEOPOLD, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
LEOPOLD, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. THOU wert forcibly seized ...
The Progress of Poesy (Thomas Gray Poem)
A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A ...
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray Poem)
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods ...
Death & Fame (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
The Tree (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Fair tree! for thy delightful shade 'Tis just that some return be made; Sure some return is due from me ...
La Figlia che Piange (T. S. Eliot Poem)
O quam te memorem virgo... STAND on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave ...
Heroic Stanzas (John Dryden Poem)
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
To Julia Marlowe (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Long had I loved this "Attic shape," the brede Of marble maidens round this urn divine: But when your golden ...
Elegy VIII: The Comparison (John Donne Poem)
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
The Canonization (John Donne Poem)
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey ...
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad, There's not a Charge to me Like that old measure in the Boughs -- ...
All men for Honor hardest work (Emily Dickinson Poem)
All men for Honor hardest work But are not known to earn -- Paid after they have ceased to work ...
Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers (Thomas Carew Poem)
THE Lady Mary Villiers lies Under this stone; with weeping eyes The parents that first gave her birth, And their ...
Song: Eternity of Love Protested (Thomas Carew Poem)
How ill doth he deserve a lover's name, Whose pale weak flame Cannot retain His heat, in spite of absence ...
A Cruel Mistress. (Thomas Carew Poem)
We read of kings and gods that kindly took A pitcher fill'd with water from the brook ; But I ...
To Belloc (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them ...
The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
Lays of Sorrow (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the ...
Cleansings (Michael Burch Poem)
Walk here among the walking scepters. Learn inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave to bone this tightly if their hearts ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
The Sirens’ Song (William Browne Poems)
STEER, hither steer your winged pines, All beaten mariners! Here lie Love's undiscover'd mines, A prey to passengers-- Perfumes far ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
The Window (Conrad Aiken Poem)
She looks out in the blue morning and sees a whole wonderful world she looks out in the morning and ...
153. Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet (Robert Burns Poems)
NO 1 sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, "No storied urn nor animated bust;" This simple stone directs pale Scotia's ...
Sonnet 05 – I lift my heavy heart up solemnly (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I lift my heavy heart up solemnly, As once Electra her sepulchral urn, And, looking in thine eyes, I overturn ...