Harold Arnett (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick, Thinking of my failure, looking into the abysm, Weak from the noon-day heat. ...
Failure Poems (658 Poems)
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 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
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 ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
The Wanderer (John Masefield Poems)
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
Petit, The Poet (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel-- Faint iambics that the ...
Albert Schirding (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one Because his children were all failures. But I know of a fate ...
Flossie Cabanis (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
From Bindle's opera house in the village To Broadway is a great step. But I tried to take it, my ...
Hildrup Tubbs (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I made two fights for the people. First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon Of independence, for reform, and ...
April 26 (David Lehman Poems)
When my father Said mein Fehler I thought it meant "I'm a failure" which was my error which is what ...
Last Night As I Was Sleeping (Antonio Machado Poems)
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt-marvelous error!- that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: ...
The Widening Spell Of Leaves (Larry Levis Poems)
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
In the Black Forest (Amy Levy Poems)
I lay beneath the pine trees, And looked aloft, where, through The dusky, clustered tree-tops, Gleamed rent, gay rifts of ...
Straw in the Street (Amy Levy Poems)
Straw in the street where I pass to-day Dulls the sound of the wheels and feet. 'Tis for a failing ...
Clouds (Philip Levine Poems)
1 Dawn. First light tearing at the rough tongues of the zinnias, at the leaves of the just born. Today ...
Then (Philip Levine Poems)
A solitary apartment house, the last one before the boulevard ends and a dusty road winds its slow way out ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
Winners Are People Like You (Poem)
Winners take chances like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them. Winners don't give ...
Habit (Poem)
I am your constant companion, I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag ...
Failure (Tim Connor Poem)
Failure It's only a word. But it carries with it so much pain and so little concern so much frustration ...
A New Day (Poem)
This is the beginning of a new day. I have been given this day to use as I will. I ...
Attitude (Charles Swindoll Poem)
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important ...
Lose/Win (Natasha Josefowitz Poem)
I have known the pain of failure frustration disappointment defeat Because I have taken a chance on winning succeeding achieving ...
Today Is the Very First Day of the Rest of My Life (Poem)
This is the Beginning of a New Day. I Can Waste It ... or Use It For Good. But What ...
The Road to Success is Always Under Construction (Poem)
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Life is not no much a matter of position ...