A Recollection (John Peale Bishop Poems)
Famously she descended, her red hairUnbound and bronzed by sea-reflections, caughtCrinkled with sea-pearls. The fine slender tautKnees that let down ...
Drawing & Painting Poems (641 Poems)
Licia Sonnets 06 (Giles Fletcher Sr Poems)
My love amazed did blush herself to see,Pictured by art, all naked as she was."How could the painter know so ...
An Artist Of The Beautiful (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
GEORGE FULLERHaunted of Beauty, like the marvellous youthWho sang Saint Agnes' Eve! How passing fairHer shapes took color in thy ...
On The Brink Of Death (Michelangelo Buonarroti Poems)
NOW hath my life across a stormy seaLike a frail bark reached that wide port where allAre bidden, ere the ...
Earthfast (Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Poems)
Architects plant their imagination, weld their poems on rock,Clamp them to the skidding rim of the world and anchor them ...
Old Age. (Sonnet IV.) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
The course of my long life hath reached at last,In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea,The common harbor, where must ...
Swinburne (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
How far soe'er thou wanderest from His law,The gift of God we reverence in thee,Painting thy thought in gorgeous pageantry,To ...
Lover’s Gifts XIII: Last Night In The Garden (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Last night in the garden I offered you my youth's foaming wine. Youlifted the cup to your lips, you shut ...
On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
Whether or not shadows are of the substancesuch is the expectation I canwait to surprise my vision as a windenters ...
The View from the Window (R S Thomas Poems)
Like a painting it is set before one,But less brittle, ageless; these coloursAre renewed daily with variationsOf light and distance ...
Don’t say he loves me as before… (Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev Poems)
Don't say he loves me as before,That, as before, he treasures me...no! He callously destroys my life,Although I see the ...
Fences (Jewell Miller Poems)
I cannot see the mountains for the fences,Although the hills aspire unto the sky,And this near length of wooden palings ...
An Imitation Of Anacreon (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
PAINTER in Paphos and Cythera famedDepict, I pray, the absent Iris' face.Thou hast not seen the lovely nymph I've named;The ...
The Gardener LIX: O Woman (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
O woman, you are not merely thehandiwork of God, but also of men;these are ever endowing you withbeauty from their ...
When I Was Still A Youthful Wight (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WHEN I was still a youthful wight,So full of enjoyment and merry,The painters used to assert, in spite,That my features ...
“O, my lady, have you not seen One” (Guido Cavalcanti Poems)
O, my lady, have you not seen OneWho laid his hand on my heart, whenI answered you so softly, tamely,Because ...
To The Rev. A. A. In The Country From His Friend In London (Horace Smith Poems)
Thou little village curate, Come quick, and do not wait;We'll sit and talk together, So sweetly _tete-a-tete_.Oh do not fear the railway Because ...
Imitation Of Lines Written By Roucher, (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
BELOW HIS PICTURE, WHICHA FELLOW-PRISONER HAD DRAWN, AND WHICHHE SENT TO HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN THEDAY BEFORE HIS EXECUTION.--1794.Lov'd objects! ...
Venice Bridge (Hilda Conkling Poems)
For a paintingAway back in an old cityI saw a bridge.That bridge belonged to Venice.It was to the rainbow clearIt ...
A Flower. Painted By Simon Varelst (Matthew Prior Poems)
When famed Varelst this little wonder drew,Flora vouchsafed the growing works to view;Finding the painter's science at a stand,The goddess ...
Decorators (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
All men the painter Youth engage;And some, the famous sculptor, Age. (John Bannister Tabb)
Fortune (Masaoka Shiki Poems)
(Alas my) fortune;drawing divine lots,the autumn wind.(Masaoka Shiki)
Tale XIX (George Crabbe Poems)
THE CONVERT.Some to our Hero have a hero's nameDenied, because no father's he could claim;Nor could his mother with precision ...
Love Or Fame: Part III: Fame (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
Oh what is fame! a flower that dies at eve, A golden mist that subtle fancies weave, An unknown star ...
A Story of the Sea-Shore (George MacDonald Poems)
TO THEM THAT MOURNLet your tears flow; let your sad sighs have scope;Only take heed they fan, they water Hope.A ...
Hero And Leander. The Fourth Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
Now from Leander's place she rose, and found Her hair and rent robe scatter'd on the ground; Which ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Ninth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
That story which the bold Sir Bedivere, First made and latest left of all the knights, Told, when ...
The Painter Of Florence (Ernest Jones Poems)
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
The Child Of The Islands – Spring (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...