To His Excellency The Lord Carteret. (Mary Barber Poems)
The Picture strikes--'tis drawn with won d'rous Art;Well has the Poet play'd the Painter's Part.Tho' 'tis your Glory, yet, my ...
Drawing & Painting Poems (641 Poems)
Shiftless (Raymond Clevie Carver Poems)
The people who were better than us were comfortable.They lived in painted houses with flush toilets.Drove cars whose year and ...
Hymn (For Boys’ Voices) (C. S. Lewis Poems)
All the things magicians doCould be done by me and youFreely, if we only knew.Human children every dayCould play at ...
The Pack-Saddle (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A FAMOUS painter, jealous of his wife;Whose charms he valued more than fame or life,When going on a journey used ...
Her Vivien Eyes (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Her Vivien eyes,--beware! beware!-- Though they be stars, a deadly snare They set beneath her night of hair. Regard them not! lest, drawing ...
Bryant On His Birthday (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
We praise not now the poet's art,The rounded beauty of his song;Who weighs him from his life apartMust do his ...
Ecuadorian Man Under The Eiffel Tower (Jorge Carerra Andrade Poems)
You turn into a plant on the coasts of time.With a chalice of round skyand tunnel for traffic,you are the ...
On The Painting Of The Sistine Chapel (Michelangelo Buonarroti Poems)
I'VE grown a goitre by dwelling in this den —As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy,Or in what other land ...
Noon (R S Ward Poems)
I saw the Painter pause before his task.And scan the sheet whereon a misty dawnWas pictured; then, with care the ...
Combat Report (John Sleigh Pudney Poems)
"Just then I saw the bloody Hun" You saw the Hun? You, light and easy,Carving the soundless daylight. "I was ...
A Fragment (Thomas Love Peacock Poems)
Nay, deem me not insensible, Cesario,To female charms; nor think this heart of mineIs cas'd in adamant; because, forsooth,I cannot ...
Xiv. second reading. (Michelangelo Buonarroti Poems)
To VITTORIA COLONNA.THE MODEL AND THE STATUE.Se ben concetto.When that which is divine in us doth try To shape a face, ...
Xi. to giorgio vasari. (Michelangelo Buonarroti Poems)
ON THE LIVES OF THE PAINTERS.Se con lo stile.With pencil and with palette hitherto You made your art high Nature's paragon; Nay ...
On Martha’s Eyes (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.AH ! who can paint that azure glance?And who can tell it's magic wiles?A thousand laughing beauties danceIn sportive graces ...
On A Lady (Rebekah Carmichael Poems)
For thee, ELIZA, darling theme,Too weak are all the strokes of art,Whose lovely eyes reflected beamGo thrilling through the painter's ...
If I a Pleasant Keepsake (Verse VI) (Jose Marti Poems)
If I a pleasant keepsakeOn leaving this world may bear,Father profound, I would takeA lock of your silver hair.If allowed ...
Never Despair (R S Thomas Poems)
Do you despair with all these conurbations above you? They are the legions the God- Man was unwilling to summon. After the last symphony, ...
Eyes (John Freeman Poems)
A winter sky of pale blue and pale gold,Bare trees, a wind that made the wood-path cold,And one slow-moving figure, ...
His Mother (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
HE will be cold tonight- Always he felt it so.(Strange not to lift the light, Strange not to go,Softly- for he forgets, Careless ...
The Donor (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
They put you in the picture if you pay.So even if you didn't see the Savior,And even if the holy ...
Largo At Night (Isobel Stone Poems)
The broad skies are not blue enough, it seems;The flowers are drooping, drowsy with old dreams,I see the tops of ...
Paint Box (Phoebe Hesketh Poems)
He tried to tell them what he felt,could say it only in colours---Sunday's white page shading to greyof evening clocks ...
Last Curtain (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
I know that the day will comewhen my sight of this earth shall be lost,and life will take its leave ...
An Unpraised Picture (Richard Francis Burton Poems)
I SAW a picture once by Angelo."Unfinished," said the critic; "done in youth;"And that was all, no thought of praise, ...
Sonnet To Expression (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Expression, child of soul! I fondly traceThy strong enchantments, when the poet's lyre,The painter's pencil catch thy sacred fire,And beauty ...
Sonnet VII (Mary Wroth Poems)
How bless'd bee they, then, who his favors prove,A life whereof the birth is just desire?Breeding sweete flame, which harts ...
After Petrarch (Jose Maria de Heredia y Giraud Poems)
As you came out of church, all piouslyYour noble hands bestowed alms freely there,And in the darkened porch you shone ...
A Toast To Wilkie Collins (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
FEBRUARY 16, 1874THE painter's and the poet's fameShed their twinned lustre round his name,To gild our story-teller's art,Where each in ...
Licia Sonnets 15 (Giles Fletcher Sr Poems)
I stood amazed, and saw my Licia shine,Fairer than Phoeligbus, in his brightest pride,Set forth in colors by a hand ...
It’s good to feel you are close to me (Pablo Neruda Poems)
It's good to feel you are close to me in the night, love,invisible in your sleep, intently nocturnal,while I untangle ...