withering Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

THE ERL-KING. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)

WHO rides there so late through the night dark and drear? The father it is, with his infant so dear; ...

The Farewell XXVIII (Khalil Gibran Poem)

And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...

The Life of Love XVI (Khalil Gibran Poem)

Spring Come, my beloved; let us walk amidst the knolls, For the snow is water, and Life is alive from ...

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 ...

Song of the Soul XXII (Khalil Gibran Poem)

In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of ...

A Poet’s Death is His Life IV (Khalil Gibran Poems)

The dark wings of night enfolded the city upon which Nature had spread a pure white garment of snow; and ...

The Evanescence of Grass (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Our lives fleeting, illusory like the days of a blade of grass needing water, needing light withering in time, fading ...

The Tuft of Flowers (Robert Frost Poem)

I went to turn the grass once after one Who mowed it in the dew before the sun. The dew ...

Waiting (Robert Frost Poem)

Afield at dusk What things for dream there are when specter-like, Moving amond tall haycocks lightly piled, I enter alone ...

The Cow In Apple-Time (Robert Frost Poem)

Something inspires the only cow of late To make no more of a wall than an open gate, And think ...

Uriel (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...

Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)

(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...

The Black Birds (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...

The Towers of Time (G. K. Chesterton Poem)

Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...

Tz’u No. 8 (Li Ching Chao Poems)

To the tune of "Rinsing Silk Stream" My courtyard is small, windows idle, spring is getting old. Screens unrolled cast ...

A Friend Sends Her Perfumed Carriage (Li Ching Chao Poem)

A friend sends her perfumed carriage And high-bred horses to fetch me. I decline the invitation of My old poetry ...

While yet we wait for spring, and from the dry (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)

While yet we wait for spring, and from the dry And blackening east that so embitters March, Well-housed must watch ...

The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)

1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...

Passion (Charlotte Bronte Poem)

SOME have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow. ...

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 ...

Spirit (Anne Bradstreet Poem)

Be still, thou unregenerate part, Disturb no more my settled heart, For I have vow'd (and so will do) Thee ...

The Flesh and the Spirit (Anne Bradstreet Poem)

In secret place where once I stood Close by the Banks of Lacrim flood, I heard two sisters reason on ...

The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)

ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...

And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair (Lord Byron Poem)

And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth; And form so soft, and charms so ...

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 Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)