The Blue-Flag In The Bog (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
God had called us, and we came; Our loved Earth to ashes left; Heaven was a neighbor's house, Open to ...
Heaven Poems (7789 Poems)
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
Green Fields (W. S. Merwin Poems)
By this part of the century few are left who believe in the animals for they are not there in ...
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 ...
Sonnet (John Masefield Poems)
FLESH, I have knocked at many a dusty door, Gone down full many a midnight lane, Probed in old walls ...
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, ...
Judson Stoddard (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
On a mountain top above the clouds That streamed like a sea below me I said that peak is the ...
The Snow Fairy (Claude McKay Poems)
I Throughout the afternoon I watched them there, Snow-fairies falling, falling from the sky, Whirling fantastic in the misty air, ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
How Soon Hath Time (John Milton Poems)
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stoln on his wing my three and twentieth year! My hasting ...
A Farewell (Amy Levy Poems)
(After Heine.) The sad rain falls from Heaven, A sad bird pipes and sings ; I am sitting here at ...
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 ...
A Minor Poet (Amy Levy Poems)
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
L’Allegro (John Milton Poems)
Hence, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights ...
Last Words (Amy Levy Poems)
Dead! all's done with! -- R. Browning. These blossoms that I bring, This song that here I sing, These tears ...
On His Deceased Wife (John Milton Poems)
METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Joves great Son to ...
Magdalen (Amy Levy Poems)
All things I can endure, save one. The bare, blank room where is no sun; The parcelled hours; the pallet ...
Lycidas (John Milton Poems)
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
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 ...
Late Leaves (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
THE leaves are falling; so am I; The few late flowers have moisture in the eye; So have I too. ...
To Zo? (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
Against the groaning mast I stand, The Atlantic surges swell, To bear me from my native land And Zo?'s wild ...
Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
Tanagra! think not I forget Thy beautifully-storey'd streets; Be sure my memory bathes yet In clear Thermodon, and yet greets ...
Acon and Rhodope (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by, Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve, Some froward, some ...
July 10 (David Lehman Poems)
The sky was a midnight blue velvet cloth draping a birdcage and no moon but the breeze was whistling and ...
June 19 (David Lehman Poems)
What is it about the Abyss that tempts the young poet to kiss the air and head for the nearest ...
The Lynching (Claude McKay Poems)
His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven. His father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to ...
Aladdin and the Jinn (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
"Bring me soft song," said Aladdin. "This tailor-shop sings not at all. Chant me a word of the twilight, Of ...
Chopin (Emma Lazarus Poems)
I A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof Of the entangling waltz. Bright ...
The Harlequin Of Dreams (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found, Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep, Thou, giant Harlequin of ...