Whales Weep Not! (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most ...
Poems about zest (31 Poems)
The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Pennies (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
A few long-hoarded pennies in his hand Behold him stand; A kilted Hedonist, perplexed and sad. The joy that once ...
The Prodigal Son (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Here come I to my own again, Fed, forgiven and known again, Claimed by bone of my bone again And ...
Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl (John Keats Poem)
Fill for me a brimming bowl And in it let me drown my soul: But put therein some drug, designed ...
Isabella or The Pot of Basil (John Keats Poem)
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
To Fanny (John Keats Poem)
I cry your mercy-pity-love!-aye, love! Merciful love that tantalizes not, One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love, Unmasked, and being seen-without a blot! ...
St. Winefred’s Well (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
ACT I. SC. I Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following. T. WHAT is it, Gwen, my girl? why do you ...
Epithalamion (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Hark, hearer, hear what I do; lend a thought now, make believe We are leafwhelmed somewhere with the hood Of ...
The Bridge of Lodi. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain "The Bridge of Lodi" Brought ...
The Sick God (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I In days when men had joy of war, A God of Battles sped each mortal jar; The peoples pledged ...
Nature’s Questioning (Thomas Hardy Poems)
WHEN I look forth at dawning, pool, Field, flock, and lonely tree, All seem to look at me Like chastened ...
The Sugar-Plum Tree (Eugene Field Poem)
Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? 'T is a marvel of great renown! It blooms on the shore ...
The doll’s wooing (Eugene Field Poems)
The little French doll was a dear little doll Tricked out in the sweetest of dresses; Her eyes were of ...
De Amicitiis (Eugene Field Poem)
Though care and strife Elsewhere be rife, Upon my word I do not heed 'em; In bed I lie With ...
Ballad of women i love (Eugene Field Poem)
Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate Hid away in an oaken chest, And a Franklin platter of ancient date ...
The Gascon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sun As soon as by chance I detect That ...
The Vain King (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Inscriptions for a Friend’s House (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
THE HOUSE The cornerstone in Truth is laid, The guardian walls of Honour made, The roof of Faith is built ...
Of Death I try to think like this — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Of Death I try to think like this -- The Well in which they lay us Is but the Likeness ...
Praise it — ’tis dead — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
Praise it -- 'tis dead -- It cannot glow -- Warm this inclement Ear With the encomium it earned Since ...
The Visible, The Untrue (Hart Crane Poem)
Yes, I being the terrible puppet of my dreams, shall lavish this on you- the dense mine of the orchid, ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The Improvisatore (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once the very wish Partook ...
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 ...
The Death and Last Confession of Wandering Peter (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
When Peter Wanderwide was young He wandered everywhere he would: All that he approved was sung, And most of what ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Carry On! (Robert W. Service Poem)
It's easy to fight when everything's right, And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer ...
Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
XLI I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by ...