Crossing The Water (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people. Where do the black trees go that drink here? Their shadows must ...
Advices Poems (659 Poems)
From A Letter From Lesbia (Dorothy Parker Poems)
... So, praise the gods, Catullus is away! And let me tend you this advice, my dear: Take any lover ...
Neither Bloody Nor Bowed (Dorothy Parker Poems)
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends ...
Portrait d’Une Femme (Ezra Pound Poems)
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea, London has swept about you this score years And bright ships left ...
The Maori’s Wool (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The Maoris are a mighty race -- the finest ever known; Before the missionaries came they worshipped wood and stone; ...
The Scapegoat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
Harvest Hymn (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
Mens Voices: LORD of the lotus, lord of the harvest, Bright and munificent lord of the morn! Thine is the ...
To A Sad Daughter (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
All night long the hockey pictures gaze down at you sleeping in your tracksuit. Belligerent goalies are your ideal. Threats ...
Death and Burial of Lord Tennyson (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone- The late and the good Lord Tennyson. I hope his soul ...
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 ...
Hero and Leander: The First Sestiad (Christopher Morley Poems)
1 On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, 2 In view and opposite two cities stood, 3 Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by ...
This (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
This is what I most want unpursued, alone to reach beyond the light that I am furthest from. And for ...
To my son (John Matthew Poems)
You will realize this wisdom, When you are my age, and experience, Gained from being in vexing situations, Yet, being ...
A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
All hail to Mr Murphy, he is a hero brave, That has crossed the mighty Atlantic wave, For what purpose ...
Beautiful Crief (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, Take my advice, and visit the ancient town ...
Hero and Leander: The First Sestiad (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
1 On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, 2 In view and opposite two cities stood, 3 Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
The Death of Cromwell (Andrew Marvell Poems)
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Psalm 01 (John Milton Poems)
Done into Verse, 1653. Bless'd is the man who hath not walk'd astray In counsel of the wicked, and ith'way ...
Sonnet 10 (John Milton Poems)
X Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of Englands Counsel, and her Treasury, Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Child of Europe (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
1 We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day. Who in May admire trees flowering Are better than those ...
January 2 (David Lehman Poems)
The old war is over the new one has begun between drivers and pedestrians on a Friday in New York ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
Somebody (Jeff Yalden Poem)
Somebody is very proud of you. Somebody is thinking of you. Somebody is caring about you. Somebody misses you. Somebody ...
The Road to Success is Always Under Construction (Poem)
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Life is not no much a matter of position ...