Inscription 07 – For A Tablet On The Banks Of A Stream (Robert Southey Poems)
Stranger! awhile upon this mossy bank Recline thee. If the Sun rides high, the breeze, That loves to ripple o'er ...
Insects Poems (329 Poems)
Spiders (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Is the spider a monster in miniature? His web is a cruel stair, to be sure, Designed artfully, cunningly placed, ...
Lucille (Robert William Service Poems)
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
Resignation (Robert William Service Poems)
I'd hate to be centipede (of legs I've only two), For if new trousers I should need (as oftentimes I ...
Mont Blanc (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
(Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni) 1 The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its ...
Prometheus Unbound: Act I (excerpt) (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
SCENE.--A Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the Precipice. Panthea and Ione areseated ...
Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- ...
The Lascar (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
I. "Another day, Ah! me, a day "Of dreary Sorrow is begun! "And still I loath the temper'd ray, "And ...
Elizabeth Leaves A Letter For Dr. Frankenstein (Jennifer Reeser Poems)
Whether the clouds had abandoned Geneva that evening no one can say now, but what I remember are roses bruised ...
Diving into the Wreck (Adrienne Rich Poems)
First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put ...
Avon’s Harvest (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Ode to the Muse (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
O, let me seize thy pen sublime That paints, in melting dulcet rhyme, The glowing pow'r, the magic art, Th' ...
Sonnet XXIX: Farewell, Ye Tow’ring Cedars (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Farewell, ye tow'ring Cedars, in whose shade, Lull'd by the Nightingale, I sunk to rest, While spicy breezes hover'd o'er ...
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 ...
By the Grey Gulf-water (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Far to the Northward there lies a land, A wonderful land that the winds blow over, And none may fathom ...
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 ...
Frog Autumn (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Summer grows old, cold-blooded mother. The insects are scant, skinny. In these palustral homes we only Croak and wither. Mornings ...
Bat’s Ultrasound (Les Murray Poems)
Sleeping-bagged in a duplex wing with fleas, in rock-cleft or building radar bats are darkness in miniature, their whole face ...
John Cabanis (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Neither spite, fellow citizens, Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness, And the lawlessness and waste Under democracy's rule in Spoon River ...
Dow Kritt (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Samuel is forever talking of his elm -- But I did not need to die to learn about roots: I, ...
On The Porch At The Frost Place, Franconia, N. H. (William Matthews Poems)
So here the great man stood, fermenting malice and poems we have to be nearly as fierce against ourselves as ...
Omens (Thomas Moore Poems)
When daylight was yet sleeping under the pillow, And stars in the heavens still lingering shone, Young Kitty, all blushing, ...
To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet muse with your fair fortune chose, And as complexions ...
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, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Whenever I Go There (W. S. Merwin Poems)
Whenever I go there everything is changed The stamps on the bandages the titles Of the professors of water The ...
The Dragon-Fly (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream; I wish no happier one than to be laid Beneath a ...