How pleasant to know Mr. Lear (Edward Lear Poem)
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear, Who has written such volumes of stuff. Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But ...
Poems about volumes (31 Poems)
For Australia (Henry Lawson Poem)
Now, with the wars of the world begun, they'll listen to you and me, Now while the frightened nations run ...
Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
it's 1962 March 28th I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train night is falling I never knew I ...
Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the St (Thomas Hardy Poem)
He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there, A type of ...
VERSES Occasioned by a Young Lady’s asking the Author, What was a Cure for Love? (Thomas Godfrey Poems)
From me, my Dear, O seek not to receive What e'en deep-read Experience cannot give. We may, indeed, from the ...
ORIGINAL PREFACE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I have taken advantage of the publication of a Second Edition of my translation of the Poems of Goethe (originally ...
Haiku (Never Published) (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Drinking my tea Without sugar- No difference. The sparrow shits upside down --ah! my brain & eggs Mayan head in ...
The Lion For Real (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
The Good Lord Has Kept Me (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh in this morning waking, knowing the good Lord has kept me wrapped in his loving arms Just where I ...
When They Heard His Answer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wondering what they must have felt when they heard his answer not really responding as they had thought when they ...
The Firmness of His Handshake (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
His ears needing assistance his eyes struggle some too his legs ache so But the firmness of his handshake something ...
In Thunder – haiku – 1 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In roaring thunder the crash of ocean waves God speaks in volumes January 30, 2009 (Raymond A. Foss)
The stoddards (Eugene Field Poem)
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night, To visit with my honest, genial friends, ...
The peter-bird (Eugene Field Poem)
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
The Day’s Ration (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Sonnet LV: My Fair, If Thou Wilt (Michael Drayton Poem)
My Fair, if thou wilt register my love, A world of volumes shall thereof arise; Preserve my tears, and thou ...
On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
The Art Of Drowning (Billy Collins Poem)
I wonder how it all got started, this business about seeing your life flash before your eyes while you drown, ...
Discrimination (Michael Burch Poem)
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed, was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose. I found ...
The Student’s Serenade (Anne Bronte Poems)
I have slept upon my couch, But my spirit did not rest, For the labours of the day Yet my ...
Mementos (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
556. Inscription to Jessie Lewars (Robert Burns Poems)
THINE be the volumes, Jessy fair, And with them take the Poet's prayer, That Fate may, in her fairest page, ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Sonnet 21 (John Milton Poems)
XXI Cyriac, whose grandsire on the royal bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes ...