Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
Age Poems (3185 Poems)
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 ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
In Black Despair (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
In grayish doubt and black despair, I drafted hymns to the earth and the air, pretending to joy, although I ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Conversation with Jeanne (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
Sonnet 12 (John Milton Poems)
XII. On the same. I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs By the known rules of antient ...
Lucinda Matlock (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I went to the dances at Chandlerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in ...
From ‘Arcades’ (John Milton Poems)
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Silence (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when it ...
Sonnet 11 (John Milton Poems)
XI A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon; And wov'n close, both matter, form and stile; The Subject new: ...
Alexander Throckmorton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
In youth my wings were strong and tireless, But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the ...
The Hymn (John Milton Poems)
I It was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw ...
Edith Conant (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
We stand about this place -- we, the memories; And shade our eyes because we dread to read: "June 17th, ...
Martha (Walter de la Mare Poems)
"Once...Once upon a time..." Over and over again, Martha would tell us her stories, In the hazel glen. Hers were ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
On Shakespear (John Milton Poems)
What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones, The labour of an age in piled Stones, Or that his hallow'd ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
Sonnet 13 (John Milton Poems)
XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires. Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song First taught our English Musick ...
To Age (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
Welcome, old friend! These many years Have we lived door by door; The fates have laid aside their shears Perhaps ...
Acon and Rhodope (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by, Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve, Some froward, some ...
Operation Memory (David Lehman Poems)
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...
An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ...
The Identification (Roger McGough Poems)
So you think its Stephen? Then I'd best make sure Be on the safe side as it were. Ah, theres ...
The ABC (Spike Milligan Poems)
'Twas midnight in the schoolroom And every desk was shut When suddenly from the alphabet Was heard a loud "Tut-Tut!" ...
The Present (Philip Levine Poems)
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...
Voyages (Philip Levine Poems)
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart -- I walk by sedge and brown river rot to where the old ...
Black Stone On Top Of Nothing (Philip Levine Poems)
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon around the apartment building covering the front door. He ...
Wisteria (Philip Levine Poems)
The first purple wisteria I recall from boyhood hung on a wire outside the windows of the breakfast room next ...