The Moon-Prayer (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
IN the azure aerial ocean the silver cloudshover; stars twinkle, stars are merry, but themoon is pale and silent.The forest ...
Contemplation Poems (841 Poems)
Of the vanitie of the world (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
As I lay musing in my bed,A heape of fancies came in head,Which greatly did molest mee.Such sundry thoughtes of ...
The Sermon Of The Rose (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Wilful we are in our infirmityOf childish questioning and discontent.Whate'er befalls us is divinely meant--Thou Truth the clearer for thy ...
On The King’s Illness (Joanna Baillie Poems)
REST , rest, afflicted spirit, quickly passThy hour of bitter suffering! Rest awaits thee,There, where, the load of weary life ...
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.The sun is warm, the sky is clear,The waves are dancing fast and bright,Blue isles and snowy mountains wearThe purple ...
The Creation Of Man (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
When the world was first createdBy th' all-wise Eternal One,Asked he none for help or counsel,--Simply spake, and it was ...
The Pelican Island (James Montgomery Poems)
Light as a flake of foam upon the wind,Keel-upward from the deep emerged a shell,Shaped like the moon ere half ...
The Ancient Gods (Mary Webb Poems)
Certainly there were splashings in the water,Certainly there were shadows on the hill,Dark with the leaves of purple-spotted orchis;But now ...
To The Sun (Ingeborg Bachmann Poems)
More beatiful than the remarkable moon and her noble light,More beautiful than the stars, the famous medals of the night,More ...
Nature (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I dreamed I had come into an immense underground temple with lofty archedroof. It was filled with a sort of ...
That Great Waiting Silence (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
SongTo The Rock Demoness (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
River, ripples, and waves, these three,When emerging, arise from the ocean itself.When disappearing, they disappear into the ocean itself.Habitual thinking, ...
Response To A Logician (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.And sing this song in response to you.Listen, pay heed to what ...
Reflections On An Evening (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WITHIN this lonely beauteous spot retir'd,Far from the world and fashion's giddy throng,My youthful muse, by Nature's charms inspir'd,Has learn'd ...
Mortal Shower (Bob Hicok Poems)
I met my butt in a Pittsburghhotel room. My facestill looks like my facebut not my butt, my hairno longer ...
The Brightness (John Freeman Poems)
Away, away--Through that strange void and vastBrimmed with dying day;Away,So that I feelOnly the windOf the world's swift-rolling wheel.See what ...
‘Twas little she thought that I stood breathless by her side (George W Sands Poems)
"'Twas little she thought that I stood breathless by her sidelistening to the song she sang as she sat by ...
To Her Royal Highness, the Princess of *** (Voltaire Poems)
Abeauteous princess often mayLanguish in pleasure's season gay;The empty forms of haughty stateOft make life tedious to the great.It must ...
Reflections On Absent Friends, Gone To America (John Castillo Poems)
The sun had gone down o'er yon lofty mountain,The last golden streamer had left the tall tree;The dwelling below seemed ...
A Country Incident (May Sarton Poems)
Absorbed in planting bulbs, that work of hope,I was startled by a loud human voice,"Do go on working while I ...
“Tum mujhme priya, phie parichay kya” (Why an introduction, since you are within me) (Mahadevi Verma Poems)
Tum mujhme priya, phir parichay kya, tarak mein chhavi, praano.N mein smriti,palako.N mein neerav pad ki gati,laghu ur mein pulako.n ki sansriti, bhar laayi ...
The Marigold (George Wither Poems)
. When with a serious musing I behold The grateful and obsequious marigold, How duly, ev'ry morning, she displays Her open breast, when ...
Prospecting (Pat O Cotter Poems)
Looking for placer pangar, Loafing about in the hills,Getting your grub with a rifle, Taking your drink from rills.Getting your bed from ...
To S.M. a Young African Painter (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent,And thought in living characters to paint,When first thy pencil did those beauties give,And ...
The Song Of View, Practice, And Action (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
Oh, my Guru! The Exemplar of the View, Practice, and Action,Pray vouchsafe me your grace, and enable meTo be absorbed ...
Fragment II (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Loud rage the winds without.—The wintry cloudO'er the cold northstar casts her flitting shroud;And Silence, pausing in some snow-clad dale,Starts ...
Night Of Sine (Leopold Sedhar Senghor Poems)
Woman, put on my forehead your balsam hands,your hands softer than fur.Up there, the tall palm trees swinging in the ...
To a Captive Owl (Henry Timrod Poems)
I should be dumb before thee, feathered sage!And gaze upon thy phiz with solemn awe,But for a most audacious wish ...
Symphony In White (Luis Munoz Marin Poems)
'WAS midnight when she died; her body layWhite as the wheaten wafer of the priest,What time the heavens were weeping. ...
Love’s Growth (John Donne Poems)
I scarce believe my love to be so pure As I had thought it was, Because it doth endureVicissitude, and season, as ...