Suggested by the Cover of a Volume of Keats’s Poems (Amy Lowell Poems)
Wild little bird, who chose thee for a sign To put upon the cover of this book? Who heard thee ...
Poems about widening (24 Poems)
Petals (Amy Lowell Poem)
Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in ...
On Being Human (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities ...
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 ...
TO A CHILD (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, ...
The Flaâneur (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
The Two Streams (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
Behold the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides! ...
The Thought-Fox (Ted Hughes Poem)
I imagine this midnight moment's forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock's loneliness And this blank page where my ...
Sown (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
So I Send You, sown seeds cast, not capriciously, lovingly, spread into the world sent into the darkness, bits of ...
The Choir Invisible (George Eliot Poem)
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their ...
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 ...
Where Lies The Land To Which The Ship Would Go (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where ...
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 ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema (Conrad Aiken Poem)
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
The Far Field (Theodore Roethke Poems)
I I dream of journeys repeatedly: Of flying like a bat deep into a narrowing tunnel Of driving alone, without ...
Ginza Samba (Robert Pinsky Poems)
A monosyllabic European called Sax Invents a horn, walla whirledy wah, a kind of twisted Brazen clarinet, but with its ...
The Time Around Scars (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
A girl whom I've not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old scar. On ...
Modern Love XLVI: At Last We Parley (George Meredith Poems)
At last we parley: we so strangely dumb In such a close communion! It befell About the sounding of the ...
Modern Love: XLVI (George Meredith Poems)
At last we parley: we so strangely dumb In such a close communion! It befell About the sounding of the ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
June 19 (David Lehman Poems)
What is it about the Abyss that tempts the young poet to kiss the air and head for the nearest ...
To Jane Addams at the Hague (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen, Stand now for peace, (though anger ...
What the Coal-Heaver Said (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
The moon's an open furnace door Where all can see the blast, We shovel in our blackest griefs, Upon that ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...