Elizabeth Childers (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
Fear Poems (5633 Poems)
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 ...
Harry Wilmans (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was just turned twenty-one, And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House. "The honor ...
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, ...
Robert Davidson (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men. If I saw a soul that was strong I wounded ...
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 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i (John Milton Poems)
OH how comely it is and how reviving To the Spirits of just men long opprest! When God into the ...
Burial (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Mine is a body that should die at sea! And have for a grave, instead of a grave Six feet ...
Interim (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
The room is full of you!-As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...
A March Day in London (Amy Levy Poems)
The east wind blows in the street to-day; The sky is blue, yet the town looks grey. 'Tis the wind ...
On the Wye in May (Amy Levy Poems)
Now is the perfect moment of the year. Half naked branches, half a mist of green, Vivid and delicate the ...
Run to Death (Amy Levy Poems)
A True Incident of Pre-Revolutionary French History. Now the lovely autumn morning breathes its freshness in earth's face, In the ...
The Two Terrors (Amy Levy Poems)
Two terrors fright my soul by night and day: The first is Life, and with her come the years; A ...
Death Stands Above Me, Whispering Low (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear: Of his strange language all I know ...
Alciphron and Leucippe (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
An ancient chestnut's blossoms threw Their heavy odour over two: Leucippe, it is said, was one; The other, then, was ...
Gold Medal Gal of Israel (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Athens, Greece, August 25, 2004 Gold-Medal Gal of Israel By Sharon Esther Lampert (The Sexist Creative Genius in Human History) ...
Baptism (Claude McKay Poems)
Into the furnace let me go alone; Stay you without in terror of the heat. I will go naked in--for ...
French Leave (Claude McKay Poems)
No servile little fear shall daunt my will This morning. I have courage steeled to say I will be lazy, ...
Poetry (Claude McKay Poems)
Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower, And seek to hide my tortured soul from thee. Bowing my head in ...
Wild May (Claude McKay Poems)
Aleta mentions in her tender letters, Among a chain of quaint and touching things, That you are feeble, weighted down ...
Bump (Spike Milligan Poems)
Things that go 'bump' in the night Should not really give one a fright. It's the hole in each ear ...
The Pangolin (Marianne Moore Poems)
Another armored animal--scale lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central tail-row! This near artichoke with head ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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 ...
Monologue of a Mother (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
This is the last of all, this is the last! I must hold my hands, and turn my face to ...