The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
Poems about utmost (42 Poems)
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
The Bucking-Tub (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
To Mr. F. Now Earl of W (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task, ...
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Misgiving (Robert Frost Poem)
All crying, 'We will go with you, O Wind!' The foliage follow him, leaf and stem; But a sleep oppresses ...
The Trial by Existence (Robert Frost Poem)
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...
I Will Sing You One-O (Robert Frost Poem)
It was long I lay Awake that night Wishing that night Would name the hour And tell me whether To ...
The Lifeguard (James Dickey Poem)
In a stable of boats I lie still, From all sleeping children hidden. The leap of a fish from its ...
Sonnet LXIII: Truce, Gentle Love (Michael Drayton Poem)
Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave; Methinks 'tis long since first these wars begun; Nor thou nor I ...
Alexander’s Feast; Or, The Power Of Music (John Dryden Poems)
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
While we were fearing it, it came — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
While we were fearing it, it came -- But came with less of fear Because that fearing it so long ...
We like a Hairbreadth ‘scape (Emily Dickinson Poems)
We like a Hairbreadth 'scape It tingles in the Mind Far after Act or Accident Like paragraphs of Wind If ...
Until the Desert knows (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Until the Desert knows That Water grows His Sands suffice But let him once suspect That Caspian Fact Sahara dies ...
Unto the Whole — how add? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Unto the Whole -- how add? Has "All" a further realm -- Or Utmost an Ulterior? Oh, Subsidy of Balm! ...
Take your Heaven further on (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Take your Heaven further on -- This -- to Heaven divine Has gone -- Had You earlier blundered in Possibly, ...
I had a daily Bliss (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I had a daily Bliss I half indifferent viewed Till sudden I perceived it stir -- It grew as I ...
His Bill an Auger is (Emily Dickinson Poem)
His Bill an Auger is His Head, a Cap and Frill He laboreth at every Tree A Worm, His utmost ...
All I may, if small, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
All I may, if small, Do it not display Larger for the Totalness -- 'Tis Economy To bestow a World ...
The earth has many keys, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The earth has many keys, Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature's fact. But witness for ...
From The Ladies Defence (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
Jehovah-Shammah (William Cowper Poem)
(Ezekiel, xlviii.35) As birds their infant brood protect, And spread their wings to shelter them, Thus saith the Lord to ...
The Priestess of Panormita (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Arhan (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossoms ...
The Priestess of Panormita (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Arhan (Aleister Crowley Poem)
When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossoms ...
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 Skies (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
Ay! gloriously thou standest there, Beautiful, boundless firmament! That swelling wide o'er earth and air, And round the horizon bent, ...