Twas One of Those Dreams (Thomas Moore Poems)
'TWAS one of those dreams, that by music are brought, Like a bright summer haze, o'er the poet's warm thought ...
Forgiveness Poems (1956 Poems)
In Arthur’s House (William Morris Poems)
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
King Arthur’s Tomb (William Morris Poems)
Hot August noon: already on that day Since sunrise through the Wiltshire downs, most sad Of mouth and eye, he ...
Song IV: Draw Near and Behold Me (William Morris Poems)
Love is enough: draw near and behold me Ye who pass by the way to your rest and your laughter, ...
The Chapel in Lyonesse (William Morris Poems)
SIR OZANA. All day long and every day, From Christmas-Eve to Whit-Sunday, Within that Chapel-aisle I lay, And no man ...
The Defence of Guenevere (William Morris Poems)
But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand ...
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 ...
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 ...
Psalm 86 (John Milton Poems)
Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline, O hear me I thee pray, For I am poor, and almost pine With ...
Psalm 85 (John Milton Poems)
Thy Land to favour graciously Thou hast not Lord been slack, Thou hast from hard Captivity Returned Jacob back. Th' ...
Marie Bateson (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
You observe the carven hand With the index finger pointing heavenward. That is the direction, no doubt. But how shall ...
Anne Rutledge (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; 'With malice toward none, with charity for all.' Out ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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 ...
Making Love To Concrete (Audre Lorde Poems)
An upright abutment in the mouth of the Willis Avenue bridge a beige Honda leaps the divider like a steel ...
The First Death. (extracts) (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2000. VIII Final concept harbour which has broken there where it crumpled our faces there where ikons ...
TSUNAMI (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
How many tears can the ocean hold? What the history books Don't tell you is that The Indian Ocean was ...
Central Park Violence (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Central Park: Water Fight, Flight, and Tears June 1 2001, N.Y. C., U.S.A. (1) From the five boroughs of N.Y.C., ...
Polarity (Claude McKay Poems)
Nay, why reproach each other, be unkind, For there's no plane on which we two may meet? Let's both forgive, ...
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 ...
Green Thumb (Philip Levine Poems)
Shake out my pockets! Harken to the call Of that calm voice that makes no sound at all! Take of ...
How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Oh, once I walked in Heaven, all alone Upon the sacred cliffs above the sky. God and the angels, and ...
Epilogue (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
UNDER THE BLESSING OF YOUR PSYCHE WINGS Though I have found you llke a snow-drop pale, On sunny days have ...
To Althea, From Prison (Richard Lovelace Poems)
When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When ...
Hymns Of The Marshes. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
The Crystal (Sidney Lanier Poems)
At midnight, death's and truth's unlocking time, When far within the spirit's hearing rolls The great soft rumble of the ...
To Beethoven (Sidney Lanier Poems)
In o'er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music's bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect ...
The Mercy (Philip Levine Poems)
The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island Eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy." She remembers trying to ...