Lord, what a Beloved is mine! (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
Lord, what a Beloved is mine! I have a sweet quarry; I possess in my breast a hundred meadows from ...
Contemplation Poems (841 Poems)
Ode to Meditation (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
SWEET CHILD OF REASON! maid serene; With folded arms, and pensive mien, Who wand'ring near yon thorny wild, So oft, ...
Ode to Reflection (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
O THOU, whose sober precepts can controul The wild impatience of the troubled soul, Sweet Nymph serene ! whose all-consoling ...
Ode to the Moon (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
PALE GODDESS of the witching hour; Blest Contemplation's placid friend; Oft in my solitary bow'r, I mark thy lucid beam ...
Pastoral Stanzas (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
WHEN AURORA'S soft blushes o'erspread the blue hill, And the mist dies away at the glances of morn; When the ...
Solitude (Alexander Pope Poems)
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his ...
Solitude: An Ode (Alexander Pope Poems)
I. How happy he, who free from care The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breaths his native ...
Saturday Night in the Parthenon (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
Tiny green birds skate over the surface of the room. A naked girl prepares a basin with steaming water, And ...
WRITING TO ONEGIN (Ruth Padel Poems)
(After Pushkin) Look at the bare wood hand-waxed floor and long White dressing-gown, the good child's writing-desk And passionate cold ...
The Mylora Elopement (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
By the winding Wollondilly where the weeping willows weep, And the shepherd, with his billy, half awake and half asleep, ...
Ode on Solitude (Alexander Pope Poems)
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his ...
Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Love is sharper than stones or sticks; Lone as the sea, and deeper blue; Loud in the night as a ...
Finis (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Now it's over, and now it's done; Why does everything look the same? Just as bright, the unheeding sun, -- ...
Parable For A Certain Virgin (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine; Refresh your recollection, And sit a moment, to define His means of self-protection. How truly ...
The Searched Soul (Dorothy Parker Poems)
When I consider, pro and con, What things my love is built upon -- A curly mouth; a sinewed wrist; ...
Al Aaraaf (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun (Heather McHugh Poems)
Too volatile, am I?too voluble?too much a word-person? I blame the soup:I'm a primordially stirred person. Two pronouns and a ...
Loneliness (John Matthew Poems)
I pause midway in the in the whirl, Of deadlines, things undone, And average the sadness and joys - There ...
The Mower To The Glo-Worms (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Ye living Lamps, by whose dear light The Nightingale does sit so late, And studying all the Summer-night, Her matchless ...
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 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Intention To Escape From Him (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Intention To Escape From Him I think I will learn some beautiful language, useless for ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
The White City (Claude McKay Poems)
I will not toy with it nor bend an inch. Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
A Florida Sunday. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...