Autumn: Monday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
O God! Thy kingdom is a mansion bright,Where peace and joy and truth and love and lightMingle harmoniously; while like ...
Intelligence Poems (115 Poems)
On An Engraving Of Hindoo Temples (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
LITTLE the present careth for the past,Too little-'tis not well!For careless ones we dwellBeneath the mighty shadow it has cast.Its ...
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward (John Donne Poems)
Let mans Soul be a Sphere, and then, in this,The intelligence that moves, devotion isAnd as the other Spheres, by ...
The Ex Official’s Lament (William Gay Poems)
Alas alas! my power is gone;I thought 'twould last for ever;But now 'tis over, I must own,They've done it very ...
The Masque of the Magi (James Elroy Flecker Poems)
Three Kings have come to BethlehemWith a trailing star in front of them.MARYWhat would you in this little place, You three ...
We Are Many (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,I cannot settle on a single one.They are lost to me ...
Comfortable Light (John Freeman Poems)
Most comfortable Light,Light of the small lamp burning up the night,With dawn enleagued against the beaten dark;Pure golden perfect spark;Or ...
Accomplishment (Jane Taylor Poems)
HOW is it that masters, and science, and art,One spark of intelligence fail to impart,Unless in that chemical union combined,Of ...
After Working Sixty Hours Again for What Reason (Bob Hicok Poems)
The best job I had was moving a stonefrom one side of the road to the other.This required a permit ...
The Aspiration (John Norris Poems)
How long, great God, must I Immured in this dark prison lie? Where, at the grates and avenues of sense My soul must ...
Buick (Karl Shapiro Poems)
As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spineAnd a keel as steel as a root ...
A Considerable Speck (Robert Frost Poems)
(Microscopic)A speck that would have been beneath my sightOn any but a paper sheet so whiteSet off across what I ...
The Mind of the Frontispeece (George Sandys Poems)
FIRE, AIRE, EARTH, WATER, all the OppositesThat stroue in Chaos, powrefull LOVE vnites;And from their Discord drew this Harmonie,Which smiles ...
Simplify Me When I’m Dead (Keith Douglas Poems)
Remember me when I am deadand simplify me when I'm dead.As the processes of earthstrip off the colour of the ...
The Visit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Askest "How long thou shall stay?"Devastator of the day!Know, each substance and relationThorough nature's operation,Hath its unit, bound, and metre,And ...
At the San Francisco Airport (Yvor Winters Poems)
This is the terminal: the lightGives perfect vision, false and hard;The metal glitters, deep and bright/Great planes are waiting in ...
Two Kinds of Intelligence (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,as a child in school memorizes facts and conceptsfrom books and from what ...
The Steam-Engine (Henry Ellison Poems)
Off, ye Mastodons, Megalosauroi vastAnd monstrous, Nature's ruder tentatives;Her clumsier essays, of which nought survivesBut fossil-bones—dread nightmares of the Past,Which ...
The Biologist (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I seek the poles of Being; but the breath of icy deathThat bans the sailor from the utmost seaStill baffles ...
On the birth of his son (Su Tung-po Poems)
Families, when a child is bornWant it to be intelligent.I, through intelligence,Having wrecked my whole life,Only hope the baby will ...
Beauty. (Robert Crawford Poems)
Her beauty is the bourne thought cannot pass;And the angel of the heart's intelligence,Young Love, might deem that boundary infinite,So ...
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. Second Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
A Faith On Trial (George Meredith Poems)
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
The Teares of the Muses (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine:The golden brood of great Apolloes wit,Those piteous plaints and sorrowful sad tine,Which late ...
Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever: Book XII. – The Many Mansions (Edward Henry Bickersteth Poems)
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
Metabole. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
The Duellist – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
The clock struck twelve; o'er half the globeDarkness had spread her pitchy robe:Morpheus, his feet with velvet shod,Treading as if ...
Poetical Reflections On A Late Poem Entitled Absalom And Achitophel (Anonymous British Poems)
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
To Lady Clan, (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
WHO INSISTED ON THE AUTHOR'S WRITING A POEM, ONMEETING BY APPOINTMENT WITH HER AND THREEOTHER LADIES AT AN INN ON ...
A Broken Prayer (George MacDonald Poems)
O Lord, my God, how longShall my poor heart pant for a boundless joy?How long, O mighty Spirit, shall I ...