The Palace of Art (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry ...
Design Poems (428 Poems)
Finery (Jane Taylor Poems)
In an elegant frock, trimm'd with beautiful lace, And hair nicely curl'd, hanging over her face, Young Fanny went out ...
Cardiac (Robert William Service Poems)
A mattock high he swung; I watched him at his toil; With never gulp of lung He gashed the ruddy ...
A Song To David (Christopher Smart Poems)
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
The Wonderer (Robert William Service Poems)
I wish that I could understand The moving marvel of my Hand; I watch my fingers turn and twist, The ...
Fool Faith (Robert William Service Poems)
Said I: "See yon vast heaven shine,-- What earthly sight diviner? Before such radiant Design Why doubt Designer?" Said he: ...
The Ape And God (Robert William Service Poems)
Son put a poser up to me That made me scratch my head: "God made the whole wide world," quoth ...
Design (Robert William Service Poems)
Said Seeker of the skies to me: "Behold yon starry host ashine! When Heaven's harmony you see How can you ...
Your Poem (Robert William Service Poems)
My poem may be yours indeed In melody and tone, If in its rhythm you can read A music of ...
The Wind Is Without There And Howls In The Trees (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
THE wind is without there and howls in the trees, And the rain-flurries drum on the glass: Alone by the ...
A Lover’s Complaint (William Shakespeare Poems)
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this ...
Ainsi Va le Monde (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride ...
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) (Alexander Pope Poems)
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Essay on Man (Alexander Pope Poems)
The First Epistle Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let ...
The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) (Alexander Pope Poems)
He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part; At home he ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, (Alexander Pope Poems)
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures: Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe ...
The Name (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
What is my name to you? 'T will die: a wave that has but rolled to reach with a lone ...
A Retir’d Friendship (Katherine Philips Poems)
Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre, Where kindly mingling Souls a while, Let's innocently spend an houre, And at all ...
The World (Katherine Philips Poems)
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends, That we should grieve for their too early ends: He that surveys ...
Content, To My Dearest Lucasia (Katherine Philips Poems)
Content, the false World's best disguise, The search and faction of the Wise, Is so abstruse and hid in night, ...
To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship (Katherine Philips Poems)
I did not live until this time Crown'd my felicity, When I could say without a crime, I am not ...
Black Rook In Rainy Weather (Sylvia Plath Poems)
On the stiff twig up there Hunches a wet black rook Arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain. I ...
Captain Teach alias Black Beard (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and sailed from that port On board a privateer, in search of sport, ...
The Burns Statue (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
This Statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see, And I hope will long be appreciated by the people of ...
The Sprig of Moss (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
There lived in Munich a poor, weakly youth, But for the exact date, I cannot vouch for the truth, And ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C. (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
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 ...