Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Hospitality Poems (1067 Poems)
Hiawatha’s Departure (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer ...
The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
NUREMBERG (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
In the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint ...
To the River Charles (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
River! that in silence windest Through the meadows, bright and free, Till at length thy rest thou findest In the ...
THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
L'eternite est une pendule, dont le balancier dit et redit sans cesse ces deux mots seulement dans le silence des ...
To my Lady Berkeley, Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord BERKELEY’s Early Engaging in the Sea-Service (Anne Killigrew Poems)
SO the renowned Ithacensian Queen In Tears for her Telemachus was seen, When leaving Home, he did attempt the Ire ...
The Robe of Christ (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Cecil Chesterton) At the foot of the Cross on Calvary Three soldiers sat and diced, And one of them ...
A Blue Valentine (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Aline) Monsignore, Right Reverend Bishop Valentinus, Sometime of Interamna, which is called Ferni, Now of the delightful Court of ...
The Prairie (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I see the grass shake in the sun for leagues on either hand, I see a river loop and run ...
Isabella or The Pot of Basil (John Keats Poem)
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Redbud Trail – Winter (James Lee Jobe Poem)
It??Ts two muddy miles from Highway 20, just past the north fork of Cache Creek, across the broad meadow, through ...
God’s Light-Houses (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
1 When night falls on the earth, the sea 2 From east to west lies twinkling bright 3 With shining ...
Boaz Asleep (Victor Hugo Poem)
Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight made his pallet on the threshing floor where all day he had worked, and ...
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
Fragment of a Greek Tragedy (A. E. Housman Poem)
CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Whence by what way how purposed art thou come To ...
TO HIS BOOK (Robert Herrick Poem)
Make haste away, and let one be A friendly patron unto thee; Lest, rapt from hence, I see thee lie ...
Unknowing (Thomas Hardy Poem)
WHEN, soul in soul reflected, We breathed an ?thered air, When we neglected All things elsewhere, And left the friendly ...
Her Death And After (Thomas Hardy Poem)
'TWAS a death-bed summons, and forth I went By the way of the Western Wall, so drear On that winter ...
Not Fear (Rafael Guillen Poem)
Not fear. Maybe, out there somewhere, the possibility of fear; the wall that might tumble down, because it's for sure ...
RINALDO.* (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[This Cantata was written for Prince Frederick of Gotha, and set to music by Winter, the Prince singing the part ...
THE VISIT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress, But soon found I that her door was fasten'd. Yet I had the ...
THE FRIENDLY MEETING. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
Lovingly I'll sing of love; Ever comes she from above. THE FRIENDLY MEETING. IN spreading mantle to my chin conceald, ...
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 ...
Not Dead (Robert Graves Poem)
Walking through trees to cool my heat and pain, I know that David's with me here again. All that is ...
Like Snow (Robert Graves Poem)
She, then, like snow in a dark night, Fell secretly. And the world waked With dazzling of the drowsy eye, ...
Parable Of Faith (Louise Gluck Poem)
Now, in twilight, on the palace steps the king asks forgiveness of his lady. He is not duplicitous; he has ...
Penelope’s Song (Louise Gluck Poems)
Little soul, little perpetually undressed one, Do now as I bid you, climb The shelf-like branches of the spruce tree; ...
The Beauty of Death XIV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Part One - The Calling Let me sleep, for my soul is intoxicated with love and Let me rest, for ...