Inventory (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things ...
Envy & Jealousy Poems (868 Poems)
Frogs in chorus (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The chorus frogs in the big lagoon Would sing their songs to the silvery moon. Tenor singers were out of ...
The Swarm (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Somebody is shooting at something in our town -- A dull pom, pom in the Sunday street. Jealousy can open ...
My Soviet Passport (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
I'd tear like a wolf at bureaucracy. For mandates my respect's but the slightest. To the devil himself I'd chuck ...
A Rajput Love Song (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
(Parvati at her lattice) O Love! were you a basil-wreath to twine among my tresses, A jewelled clasp of shining ...
Tamerlane (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme- I will not madly deem that power ...
Modern Love XLVIII: Their Sense (George Meredith Poems)
Their sense is with their senses all mixed in, Destroyed by subleties these women are! More brain, O Lord, more ...
If Mary Had Known (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
If Mary had known When she held her Babe's hands in her own Little hands that were tender and white ...
Isa Nutter (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis, And Doc Hill called it leucaemia -- But I know what brought me here: ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet muse with your fair fortune chose, And as complexions ...
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 ...
On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost (Andrew Marvell Poems)
When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender Book his vast Design unfold, Messiah Crown'd, Gods Reconcil'd Decree, ...
Quebec (John McCrae Poems)
-1908 Of old, like Helen, guerdon of the strong -- Like Helen fair, like Helen light of word, -- "The ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester (John Milton Poems)
Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe rings Filling each mouth with envy, or with praise, And all her jealous ...
Wendell P. Bloyd (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
They first charged me with disorderly conduct, There being no statute on blasphemy. Later they locked me up as insane ...
Elliott Hawkins (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship, But standing for the rights ...
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 ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
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, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
The Dance (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
Take the name of the swain, a forlorn witless elf Who was chang'd to a flow'r for admiring himself. A ...
The Fool Rings His Bells (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Come, Death, I'd have a word with thee; And thou, poor Innocency; And Love -- a lad with broken wing; ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
Tease (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I will give you all my keys, You shall be my ch?telaine, You shall enter as you please, As you ...