Lycidas (John Milton Poems)
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
Change Poems (2459 Poems)
To the Moon (Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
Oh gracious moon, now as the year turns, I remember how, heavy with sorrow, I climbed this hill to gaze ...
Cambridge in the Long (Amy Levy Poems)
Where drowsy sound of college-chimes Across the air is blown, And drowsy fragrance of the limes, I lie and dream ...
What News (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
Here, ever since you went abroad, If there be change, no change I see, I only walk our wonted road, ...
Absence (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
HERE, ever since you went abroad, If there be change no change I see: I only walk our wonted road, ...
Sestina (David Lehman Poems)
for Jim Cummins In Iowa, Jim dreamed that Della Street was Anne Sexton's twin. Dave drew a comic strip called ...
Gold Medal Gal of Israel (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Athens, Greece, August 25, 2004 Gold-Medal Gal of Israel By Sharon Esther Lampert (The Sexist Creative Genius in Human History) ...
The Perfect Marriage (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I I hate this yoke; for the world's sake here put it on: Knowing 'twill weigh as much on you ...
The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith’s Son (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
THE North Star whispers: "You are one Of those whose course no chance can change. You blunder, but are not ...
The Black Hawk War of the Artists (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
WRITTEN FOR LORADO TAFT'S STATUE OF BLACK HAWK AT OREGON, ILLINOIS To be given in the manner of the Indian ...
Epitaphs For Two Players (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
To the United States Senate (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
And must the Senator from Illinois Be this squat thing, with blinking, half-closed eyes? This brazen gutter idol, reared to ...
1492 (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate, Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword, The children of ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...
Special Pleading (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Time, hurry my Love to me: Haste, haste! Lov'st not good company? Here's but a heart-break sandy waste 'Twixt Now ...
The Harlequin Of Dreams (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found, Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep, Thou, giant Harlequin of ...
Dreams Nascent (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
My world is a painted fresco, where coloured shapes Of old, ineffectual lives linger blurred and warm; An endless tapestry ...
The Symphony (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
I Won, You Lost (Philip Levine Poems)
The last of day gathers in the yellow parlor and drifts like fine dust across the face of the gilt-framed ...
Gin (Philip Levine Poems)
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...
The Dead (Philip Levine Poems)
A good man is seized by the police and spirited away. Months later someone brags that he shot him once ...
Once (Philip Levine Poems)
Hungry and cold, I stood in a doorway on Delancey Street in 1946 as the rain came down. The worst ...
House Of Silence (Philip Levine Poems)
The winter sun, golden and tired, settles on the irregular army of bottles. Outside the trucks jostle toward the open ...
Berenda Slough (Philip Levine Poems)
Earth and water without form, change, or pause: as if the third day had not come, this calm norm of ...
Why Not You? (Steve Maraboli Poem)
Today, many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you? Today, many will open their eyes to ...
How You Spent Your Dash? (Poem)
I read of a man who stood to speak At the funeral of a friend He referred to the dates ...
The Comfort Zone (Poem)
I used to have a comfort zone where I knew I wouldn’t fail. The same four walls and busywork were ...
Better Days are Coming (Wish Belkin Poem)
If you fear losing somebody you love like rejection would be no surprise even if they never said it out ...
As You Travel Through Life… (Poem)
As you travel through life there are always those times When decisions just have to be made, When the choices ...