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The Beauty of Death XIV (Khalil Gibran Poem)

Part One - The Calling Let me sleep, for my soul is intoxicated with love and Let me rest, for ...

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 ...

Ballad of the Old Cypress (Tu Fu Poem)

In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branches are like green bronze; its ...

For Once, Then, Something (Robert Frost Poem)

Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the ...

Desert Places (Robert Frost Poem)

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost ...

Ash Wednesday (T. S. Eliot Poem)

I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...

The White Bees (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...

Silvered In The Dying Light (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Silvered in the dying light she lies a silent sleeping twinkle coloured Eve who heaves and breathes a sinuous sigh ...

Power (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...

Power (Aleister Crowley Poem)

The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...

Phantasmagoria CANTO II ( Hys Fyve Rules ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)

"MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be ...

Septuagesima (John Burnside Poem)

I dream of the silence the day before Adam came to name the animals, The gold skins newly dropped from ...

The house where I was born (05) (Yves Bonnefoy Poem)

In the same dream I am lying in the hollow of a boat, My forehead and eyes against the curved ...

Café Talk (Thomas Blackburn Poem)

'Of course,' I said, 'we cannot hope to find What we are looking for in anyone; They glitter, maybe, but ...

Cornish Cliffs (John Betjeman Poem)

Those moments, tasted once and never done, Of long surf breaking in the mid-day sun. A far-off blow-hole booming like ...

T?rnfallet (Joseph Brodsky Poem)

There is a meadow in Sweden where I lie smitten, eyes stained with clouds' white ins and outs. And about ...

Wind was Rough which Tore, The (Emily Bronte Poem)

The wind was rough which tore That leaf from its parent tree The fate was cruel which bore The withering ...

Tiare Tahiti (Rupert Brooke Poem)

Mamua, when our laughter ends, And hearts and bodies, brown as white, Are dust about the doors of friends, Or ...

The General Public (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)

"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...

The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)

"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...

Sonnet – to Genevra (Lord Byron Poem)

Thy cheek is pale with thought, but not from woe, And yet so lovely, that if Mirth could flush Its ...

Thou Whose Spell Can Raise the Dead (Lord Byron Poem)

Thou whose spell can raise the dead, Bid the prophet's form appear. "Samuel, raise thy buried head! "King, behold the ...

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 Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)

A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...

Saul (Lord Byron Poem)

Thou whose spell can raise the dead, Bid the prophet's form appear. 'Samuel, raise thy buried head! King, behold the ...

The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)