Affliction (George Herbert Poem)
When thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave: So many joys I writ down for ...
Food Poems (1269 Poems)
Man (George Herbert Poem)
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. ...
The Sacrifice (George Herbert Poem)
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
Contentment (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
"Man wants but little here below." LITTLE I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone, ...
Barnfloor and Winepress (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or ...
Andromeda (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Now Time's Andromeda on this rock rude, With not her either beauty's equal or Her injury's, looks off by both ...
The Half-way House (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Love I was shewn upon the mountain-side And bid to catch Him ere the dropp of day. See, Love, I ...
Morning Coffee (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
Reading the menu at the morning service: - Iced Venusberg perhaps, or buttered bum - Orders the usual sex-ersatz, and, ...
THE HAG (Robert Herrick Poem)
The Hag is astride, This night for to ride, The devil and she together; Through thick and through thin, Now ...
THE INVITATION (Robert Herrick Poem)
To sup with thee thou didst me home invite, And mad'st a promise that mine appetite Should meet and tire, ...
The Slow Nature (Thomas Hardy Poem)
(an Incident of Froom Valley) "THY husband--poor, poor Heart!--is dead-- Dead, out by Moreford Rise; A bull escaped the barton-shed, ...
The Alarm (Thomas Hardy Poem)
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War with Napoleon In a ferny ...
The Two Men (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped ...
Freedoms Plow (Langston Hughes Poem)
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
he and the hilltown (Rg Gregory Poem)
when they look into his mind they find a hill town somewhat surprised they go off to their learned books ...
the ordinary again (Rg Gregory Poem)
(1) the ordinary you are not interested in me a receiver of food and a giver of shit my brain ...
bone-fable (Rg Gregory Poem)
one morning the bone was there set in the centre of waste ground against the early morning sun the frost ...
Gone (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
IN Collins Street standeth a statute tall, A statue tall, on a pillar of stone, Telling its story, to great ...
WONT AND DONE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I HAVE loved; for the first time with passion I rave! I then was the servant, but now am the ...
THE TRAVELLER AND THE FARM~MAIDEN. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
HE. CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden, 'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,-- Where I'd fain one ...
OPEN TABLE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
MANY a guest I'd see to-day, Met to taste my dishes! Food in plenty is prepar'd, Birds, and game, and ...
FORTUNE OF WAR. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
NOUGHT more accursed in war I know Than getting off scot-free; Inured to danger, on we go In constant victory; ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
VANITAS! VANITATUM VANITAS! (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
MY trust in nothing now is placed, Hurrah! So in the world true joy I taste, Hurrah! Then he who ...
THE BRIDE OF CORINTH. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
Manteau Three (Jorie Graham Poem)
In the fairy tale the sky makes of itself a coat because it needs you to put it on. How ...
Strong Beer (Robert Graves Poem)
"What do you think The bravest drink Under the sky?" "Strong beer," said I. "There's a place for everything, Everything, ...
The Palace and the Hut XXIX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Part One As night fell and the light glittered in the great house, the servants stood at the massive door ...
September On Jessore Road (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace to shit ...
A Desolation (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done ...