Elegy on the Death of Lady Middleton (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
THE knell of death, that on the twilight gale, Swells its deep murmur to the pensive ear; In awful sounds ...
Immortality Poems (1478 Poems)
Sonnet to the Memory of Miss Maria Linley (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
So bends beneath the storm yon balmy flow'r, Whose spicy blossoms once perfum'd the gale; So press'd with tears reclines ...
Sonnet XXXIV: Venus! To Thee (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Venus! to thee, the Lesbian Muse shall sing, The song, which Myttellenian youths admir'd, when Echo, am'rous of the strain ...
Rembrandt to Rembrandt (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
Llewellyn and the Tree (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Could he have made Priscilla share The paradise that he had planned, Llewellyn would have loved his wife As well ...
The Three Taverns (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
Dead Man’s Dump (Isaac Rosenberg Poems)
The plunging limbers over the shattered track Racketed with their rusty freight, Stuck out like many crowns of thorns, And ...
His Pilgrimage (Sir Walter Raleigh Poems)
GIVE me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My ...
On Dragon Hill (Li Po Poems)
Drunk on Dragon Hill tonight, the banished immortal, Great White, turns among yellow flowers, his smile wide, as his hat ...
The Old Dust (Li Po Poems)
The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home. One brief journey betwixt heaven and earth, Then, ...
Song Of The Jade Cup (Li Po Poems)
A jade cup was broken because old age came too soon to give fulfilment to hopes; after drinking three cups ...
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 ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride ...
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 ...
To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship (Katherine Philips Poems)
I did not live until this time Crown'd my felicity, When I could say without a crime, I am not ...
Love’s Reality (Coventry Patmore Poems)
I walk, I trust, with open eyes; I've travelled half my worldly course; And in the way behind me lies ...
In Plaster (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the ...
Silet (Ezra Pound Poems)
When I behold how black, immortal ink Drips from my deathless pen - ah, well-away! Why should we stop at ...
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 ...
The End (Wilfred Owen Poems)
After the blast of lightning from the east, The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot throne, After the drums of ...
An Enigma (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce, "Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet. Through all the flimsy things we ...
The Burial of Mr. Gladstone (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! the people now do sigh and moan For the loss of Wm. Ewart Gladstone, Who was a very great ...
The Burns Statue (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
This Statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see, And I hope will long be appreciated by the people of ...
The Funeral of the German Emperor (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
Modern Love XLVII: We Saw the Swallows (George Meredith Poems)
We saw the swallows gathering in the sky, And in the osier-isle we heard them noise. We had not to ...
As the Heart Hopes (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
It is a year dear one, since you afar Went out beyond my yearning mortal sight A wondrous year! perchance ...
Down Home (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
Down home to-night the moonshine falls Across a hill with daisies pied, The pear tree by the garden gate Beckons ...
Gratitude (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
I thank thee, friend, for the beautiful thought That in words well chosen thou gavest to me, Deep in the ...
Sea Sunset (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
A gallant city has been builded far In the pied heaven, Bannered with crimson, sentinelled by star Of crystal even; ...