Sea Change (John Masefield Poems)
"Goneys an' gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea They ain't no birds, not really", said Billy the ...
Birds Poems (5078 Poems)
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Tewkesbury Road (John Masefield Poems)
IT is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where, Going through meadow and village, ...
Melmillo (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Three and thirty birds there stood In an elder in a wood; Called Melmillo -- flew off three, Leaving thirty ...
Miss Loo (Walter de la Mare Poems)
When thin-strewn memory I look through, I see most clearly poor Miss Loo, Her tabby cat, her cage of birds, ...
A Dirge (Amy Levy Poems)
"Mein Herz, mein Herz ist traurig Doch lustig leuchtet der Mai" There's May amid the meadows, There's May amid the ...
Nicholas Nye (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Thistle and darnell and dock grew there, And a bush, in the corner, of may, On the orchard wall I ...
A Farewell (Amy Levy Poems)
(After Heine.) The sad rain falls from Heaven, A sad bird pipes and sings ; I am sitting here at ...
The Fool Rings His Bells (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Come, Death, I'd have a word with thee; And thou, poor Innocency; And Love -- a lad with broken wing; ...
Between the Showers (Amy Levy Poems)
Between the showers I went my way, The glistening street was bright with flowers; It seemed that March had turned ...
The Ghost (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Peace in thy hands, Peace in thine eyes, Peace on thy brow; Flower of a moment in the eternal hour, ...
Borderland (Amy Levy Poems)
Am I waking, am I sleeping? As the first faint dawn comes creeping Thro' the pane, I am aware Of ...
The Listeners (Walter de la Mare Poems)
"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the ...
Captivity (Amy Levy Poems)
The lion remembers the forest, The lion in chains; To the bird that is captive a vision Of woodland remains. ...
A Grave (Marianne Moore Poems)
Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have ...
Late Leaves (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
THE leaves are falling; so am I; The few late flowers have moisture in the eye; So have I too. ...
He “Digesteth Harde Yron” (Marianne Moore Poems)
Although the aepyornis or roc that lived in Madagascar, and the moa are extinct, the camel-sparrow, linked with them in ...
CROW AND AUDEN (John Lindley Poems)
A misprint in a newspaper reported: 'Auden stepped from the train and was greeted by a small but enthusiastic crow.' ...
The First Death. (extracts) (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2000. VIII Final concept harbour which has broken there where it crumpled our faces there where ikons ...
What do animals dream? (Yahia Lababidi Poems)
Do they dream of past lives and unlived dreams unspeakably human or unimaginably bestial? Do they struggle to catch in ...
In Bondage (Claude McKay Poems)
I would be wandering in distant fields Where man, and bird, and beast, lives leisurely, And the old earth is ...
Morning Joy (Claude McKay Poems)
At night the wide and level stretch of wold, Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold, Far as ...
Romance (Claude McKay Poems)
To clasp you now and feel your head close-pressed, Scented and warm against my beating breast; To whisper soft and ...
To a Poet (Claude McKay Poems)
There is a lovely noise about your name, Above the shoutings of the city clear, More than a moment's merriment, ...
To Winter (Claude McKay Poems)
Stay, season of calm love and soulful snows! There is a subtle sweetness in the sun, The ripples on the ...
The Simple Truth (Philip Levine Poems)
I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes, took them home, boiled them in their jackets ...
The Tree of Laughing Bells (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
How the Wings Were Made From many morning-glories That in an hour will fade, From many ...
The Power Of Prayer (Sidney Lanier Poems)
or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, ...
Heaven (Philip Levine Poems)
If you were twenty-seven and had done time for beating our ex-wife and had no dreams you remembered in the ...
Niagara (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I Within the town of Buffalo Are prosy men with leaden eyes. Like ants they worry to and fro, (Important ...