Essay on Man (Alexander Pope Poems)
The First Epistle Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let ...
Future Poems (2114 Poems)
From an Essay on Man (Alexander Pope Poems)
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what ...
The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) (Alexander Pope Poems)
He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part; At home he ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, (Alexander Pope Poems)
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures: Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe ...
The Night Game (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Some of us believe We would have conceived romantic Love out of our own passions With no precedents, Without songs ...
An Elegy (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
The senseless years' extinguished mirth and laughter Oppress me like some hazy morning-after. But sadness of days past, as alcohol ...
Imitation (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
I saw the Death, and she was seating By quiet entrance at my own home, I saw the doors were ...
In Memory of F.P. (Katherine Philips Poems)
If I could ever write a lasting verse, It should be laid, deare Sainte, upon thy herse. But Sorrow is ...
A Daughter Of Eve (Christina Rossetti Poems)
A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A ...
Death (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Come thou, thou last one, whom I recognize, unbearable pain throughout this body's fabric: as I in my spirit burned, ...
Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day (Marge Piercy Poems)
In flat America, in Chicago, Graceland cemetery on the German North Side. Forty feet of Corinthian candle celebrate Pullman embedded ...
Eloisa to Abelard (Alexander Pope Poems)
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
A Life (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. Here's yesterday, last year --- ...
April 18 (Sylvia Plath Poems)
the slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull and if my stomach would contract because ...
Further Instructions (Ezra Pound Poems)
Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions. Let us express our envy for the man with a steady ...
Australia Today 1916 (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
They came from the lower levels Deep down in the Brilliant mine; From the wastes where the whirlwind revels, Whirling ...
The Scapegoat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
To All and Everything (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
No. It can't be. No! You too, beloved? Why? What for? Darling, look - I came, I brought flowers, but, ...
At the Top of My voice (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
My most respected comrades of posterity! Rummaging among these days' petrified crap, exploring the twilight of our times, you, possibly, ...
Fugue (Howard Nemerov Poems)
You see them vanish in their speeding cars, The many people hastening through the world, And wonder what they would ...
Gentleness Stirred (Nimah Nawwab Poems)
Striding through the gates of learning, Wrapped warmly in her black abaya, Modestly cloaked head to toe, Not a hair ...
WREATH OF SONNETS (Vlanes Poems)
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
BROKEN CLAVECIN (Vlanes Poems)
for every wind?'s emotionless blast brings shreds of feathers with their dance of loss rotating leaves of faded rainbow-trees and ...
SONNETS TO EUROPA (Vlanes Poems)
Frost apple on a knotted whirling bough of dark becoming where it cannot be. So much both for the soil ...
The Bells (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
I Hear the sledges with the bells- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, ...
To One In Paradise (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Thou wast all that to me, love, For which my soul did pine- A green isle in the sea, love, ...
THE MAN WITH THE HOE (Edwin Markham Poems)
BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages ...
Predawn In Health (Les Murray Poems)
The stars are filtering through a tree outside in the moon's silent era. Reality is moving layer over layer like ...
Why Brownlee Left (Paul Muldoon Poems)
Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now. For if a man should have been content ...
Modern Love XII: Not Solely That the Future (George Meredith Poems)
Not solely that the Future she destroys, And the fair life which in the distance lies For all men, beckoning ...