The Two Boys (Charles Lamb Poems)
I saw a boy with eager eyeOpen a book upon a stall,And read as he'd devour it all:Which when the ...
Food Poems (1269 Poems)
After Defeat (extract from Saul) (Charles Heavysege Poems)
All's over here;--let us withdraw and weepDown in the red recesses of our hearts,Or, in our spirits, silent, curse the ...
Winter Journey (Douglas Gibson Poems)
How good to come again by gay red coachThrough mile on mile of country white with snow,Past grey-green hangars where ...
The Thank-Offeri (George MacDonald Poems)
My Lily snatches not my gift;Glad is she to be fed,But to her mouth she will not liftThe piece of ...
A Barkeeper’s Coarse Complaint (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
It's enough to make me throw the chair through the panes of themirror Into the street--There I sit with raised ...
The Alcoholic Albatross (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers, what are we to thinkWhen we muse upon strong drink? Is it bad or is it good? Is it ...
Robinson Carusoe (Cahit Sitki Taranci Poems)
Robinson, my clever Robinsonyou don't know how I envy you.If you could only show me your island,there I would find ...
Sentiment Of The world (Carlos Drummond de Andrade Poems)
I have only two hands And the sense of the world, But I am full of slaves, My memories flow ...
The Owl (Edward Thomas Poems)
Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved;Cold, yet had heat within me that was proofAgainst the North wind; tired, ...
Taking Title (Christopher Morley Poems)
TO make this little house my very own Could not be done by law alone. Though covenant and deed convey ...
When In The Woods I Wander All Alone (Edward Hovell-Thurlow Poems)
When in the woods I wander all alone,The woods that are my solace and delight,Which I more covet than a ...
Meditation (Alice Meynell Poems)
_Rorate Coeli desuper, et nubes pluant Justum_._Aperiatur Terra, et germinet Salvatorem_.No sudden thing of glory and fear Was the Lord's ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
HIS Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-groveThe father-songster plies the hour-long quest),To feed his soul-brood hungering in the ...
Past and Future. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
MY future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done, Supernal Will ! I ...
Sonnet LXVII: On Passing over a Dreary Tract (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Swift fleet the billowy clouds along the sky, Earth seems to shudder at the storm aghast;While only beings as ...
At Parting (Anne Ridler Poems)
Since we through war awhile must partSweetheart, and learn to loseDaily useOf all that satisfied our heart:Lay up those secrets ...
The Optimist. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wingOr note enlivened the depressing wood,A soiled and sullen, stubborn snowdrift stoodBeside ...
Rime 43 (Gaspara Stampa Poems)
Harsh is my fortune, but harsher still is the fatedealt me by my count: he flees from me,I follow him; ...
Sonnet LXIII: Inclusivenes (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
The changing guests, each in a different mood,Sit at the roadside table and arise:And every life among them in like ...
Love Is Not All (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a ...
L’Envoy (George Herbert Poems)
King of glorie, King of peace,With the one make warre to cease;With the other blesse thy sheep,Thee to love, in ...
Missa Viatoris (Arthur Shearly Cripps Poems)
(In dread of Famine)HERE, Pan, on grey rock slab we set for Thee Thy Feast—the White Cake and the Red ...
Sonnet: To David Friedrich Strauss (Epes Sargent Poems)
Thou say'st, my friend, 'twould strike thee with dismayTo be assured that life would not end here;Since utter death is ...
Sonnet XV (Alan Seeger Poems)
Above the ruin of God's holy place, Where man-forsaken lay the bleeding rood, Whose hands, when men had craved substantial ...
Sonnet (Elise Justine Bayard Poems)
Sprung from the arid rock devoid of soil,In vig'rous life I saw one blade of wheat,Bearing its precious grain, full-lobed ...
Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!Faithless am I save to love's self alone.Were you not lovely I ...
On The Danger Of War (George Meredith Poems)
Avert, High Wisdom, never vainly wooed,This threat of War, that shows a land brain-sick.When nations gain the pitch where rhetoricSeems ...
From: A Few Figs From Thistles (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!Faithless am I am save to love's self alone.Were you not lovely ...
Grace At Evening (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
For all the beauties of the day,The innocence of childhood's play,For health and strength and laughter sweet,Dear Lord, our thanks ...
A Desolaltion (Allen Ginsberg Poems)
Now mind is clearas a cloudless sky.Time then to make ahome in wilderness.What have I done butwander with my eyesin ...