whispered Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Madge: Ye Hoyden (Eugene Field Poem)

At Madge, ye hoyden, gossips scofft, Ffor that a romping wench was shee-- "Now marke this rede," they bade her ...

Poem For Maya (Carolyn Forche Poem)

Dipping our bread in oil tins we talked of morning peeling open our rooms to a moment of almonds, olives ...

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 Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...

The Ear-Maker And The Mould-Mender (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...

The Cradle (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...

The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...

The Clyster (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...

Mowing (Robert Frost Poem)

There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. ...

Danse macabre (Ian Emberson Poem)

Death came to me in a mini skirt As skittish as a kitten , And said : " I am ...

Albert Down Under (Marriott Edgar Poem)

Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...

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 ...

The Message (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

Waking from tender sleep, My neighbour's little child Put out his baby hand to me, Looked in my face, and ...

Hudson’s Last Voyage (Henry Van Dyke Poems)

June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...

Autumn in the Garden (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark Makes its mark On the flowers, and the misty morning grieves ...

A Legend of Service (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...

The Bistro Styx (Rita Dove Poem)

She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...

Frederick Douglass (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)

A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...

The waters chased him as he fled, (Emily Dickinson Poem)

The waters chased him as he fled, Not daring look behind -- A billow whispered in his Ear, "Come home ...

Talk to me of love (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Talk to me of love with wonder in your eyes, of limber magic flying through the veiling air and soft-edged ...

Paper towel (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

She wrapped a paper towel around his softened cock in what he thought was quaint affection, that was new, an ...

Don’t Tell the World that You’re Waiting for Me (Eliza Cook Poems)

THREE summers have gone since the first time we met, love, And still 'tis in vain that I ask thee ...

Caesarion (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)

Partly to verify an era, partly also to pass the time, last night I picked up a collection of Ptolemaic ...

In Harbor (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)

A young man, twenty eight years old, on a vessel from Tenos, Emes arrived at this Syrian harbor with the ...

The Mantra-Yoga (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

I How should I seek to make a song for thee When all my music is to moan thy name? ...

Dumb (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

Gabriel whispered in mine ear His archangelic poesie. How can I write? I only hear The sobbing murmur of the ...

The Mantra-Yoga (Aleister Crowley Poem)