The Common Complaint (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Tyrannic Circumstance! whose jealous powerGuards every turn, and watches every hour,With secret influences controlling stillThe conduct, and the spirits, and ...
Body Poems (2410 Poems)
Luna (Julie Hill Alger Poems)
I walk home at August moonrisepast a bright window.Inside the rooman old woman sees the full moonand turns off the ...
And so it ends (Victoria Sackville-West Poems)
And so it ends,We who were lovers may be friends.I have some weeks in which to steelMy heart and teach ...
The God of Nature (James Hurdis Poems)
Look abroad,And tell me, shall we to blind Chance ascribeA scene so wonderful, so fair and good?Shall we no further ...
The Crystal Cup (Patience Worth Poems)
Give me no trumpet!Oh, let me declare myself-not holy,But Godlike, for He is beyond the holiest.Let me make bare before ...
The Temptation Of St. Anthony (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
It didn't help for him to drive the quillsOf porcupines into his lecher's flesh -His pandemonian senses uttered shrillExpulsive cries ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Sicknes (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Sicknes is Balme of Gilead, It makes the dead to live, Breakes Satans head. It is a life contemplative, The soules Memento sweet, It settes ...
The Funeral (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
MARK you not yon sad procession;'Mid the ruin'd abbey's gloom,Hastening to the worm's possession,To the dark and silent tomb!See the ...
Ariadne Auf Naxos (Hugo von Hofmannsthal Poems)
There is a land where all is pure,And this land is calledThe land of death.Here nothing is pure.All things suffer ...
The Ten Poems of Solitude I (Hugues C Pernath Poems)
In the loveless landscape of my solitudeNo movement prevails that calms me, no restThat consoles or dispatches me like a ...
When, with my mind devoutly press’d (Moses Browne Poems)
I.When, with my mind devoutly press'd,Dear Saviour! my revolving breastWould past offences traceTrembling I make the black review,Yet pleased behold, ...
Drizzle (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
HIT'S been drizzlin' an' been sprinklin',Kin' o' techy all day long.I ain't wet enough fu' toddy,I's too damp to raise ...
Astraea (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"Jove means to settleAstraea in her seat again, And let down his golden chainAn age of better metal." Ben Johnson 1615O POET ...
The world Is As It Appears (Miguel Hernandez Poems)
The world is as it appearsbefore my five senses,and before yours, which arethe borders of my own.The others' worldis not ...
Verses Addressed To Mr F. A. At The Birth Of His First Child; Born In August, 1809. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
LONG may your little son, now lent,To you a pleasure prove,And may each anxious care be crown'd,With gratitude and love.May ...
Baroque Account (Paul Van Ostaijen Poems)
Sometimes- when the boats of their senses' beatagainst the ever-swelling cliffof a fragrance that's sti1l opento fantastic beasts and plants that shot ...
Homage To Life (Jules Supervielle Poems)
It's good to have chosenA living homeAnd housed timeIn a ceaseless heartAnd seen my handsAlight on the world,As on an ...
A Midnight Meditation (Rees Prichard Poems)
How proper, and how sweet a thing,It is with all the heart to singTo God at midnight, when the restOf ...
Napoleon (Nikoloz Baratashvili Poems)
Napoleon looked upon France and said:"What is the result of reign of mine?"And seeing his glory shed,A light cast down ...
O Lord, We Praise Thee, Bless Thee, and Adore Thee (Martin Luther Poems)
O Lord, we praise Thee, bless Thee, and adore Thee,In thanksgiving bow before Thee.Thou with Thy body and Thy blood ...
The Soul’s Complaint Against The Body. (From The Anglo-Saxon) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Much it behovethEach one of mortals,That he his soul's journeyIn himself ponder,How deep it may be.When Death cometh,The bonds he ...
World, Hence With Thy Baubles (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body. This world is like ...
Song. Despair (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Ask not the pallid stranger's woe,With beating heart and throbbing breast,Whose step is faltering, weak, and slow,As though the body ...
Difficult Body (Mark Wunderlich Poems)
A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi--half-moon of carcass and jutting legs, eyesalready milky ...
Nevermore (Mary Baker Eddy Poems)
Are the dear days ever coming again, As sweetly they came of yore, Singing the olden and dainty refrain, Oh, ever and nevermore? Ever ...
Noon (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Shadder in de valley Sunlight on de hill, Sut'ny wish dat locus' Knowed how to be still. Don't de heat already Mek a body hum, 'Dout ...
Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy (Donald Justice Poems)
<i>Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. </i>-- Sears, Roebuck CatalogueO my coy darling, stillYou wear for ...
A Son’s Word to his Flowering Fatherland (Hagop Norashkharian Poems)
Till yesterdayYou were a dream, you were a tale,You were for me a fair fairy lost in the fog,Till yesterdayYou ...
Ballade II. (J Quixley Poems)
The soule in loue desires continence, And to lyue chaste, euer in goddes syght The body by kyndely experience Desirs a wife, to ...
On Seeing The Body of A Woman Drawn From The Monkland Canal (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Drifting before the tempter's power,This piteous wreck in horror's hourOn dark perdition's rock was driven!Let groaning earth and righteous heavenSum ...