The Madman – His Parables and Poems (Khalil Gibran Poems)
You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, longbefore many gods were born, I woke ...
Loneliness Poems (425 Poems)
In That Dark Silent Hour (John Freeman Poems)
In that dark silent hourWhen the wind wants power,And in the black heightThe sky wants light,Stirless and blackIn utter lack,And ...
The Usurer (Jean Blewett Poems)
FATE says, and flaunts her stores of gold,'I'll loan you happiness untold.What is it you desire of me?'A perfect hour ...
A Poor Scholar Of The ‘Forties (Padraic Colum Poems)
MY eyelids red and heavy arcWith bending o'er the smold'ring peat.I know the Aeneid now by heart,My Virgil read in ...
On The Desert (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery,Hot sphinx of nature, cactus-crowned, what hast thou done?Unclothed and mute as when the groans of ...
The Haunted House (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Poems)
It stands neglected, silent, far from the ways of men,A lonely little cottage beside a lonely glen;And, dreaming there, I ...
An Old Woman (Mary Webb Poems)
They bring her flowers--red roses heavily sweet,White pinks and Mary-lilies and a hazeOf fresh green ferns; around her head and ...
A Mad Fight Song For William S. Carpenter, 1966 (James Wright Poems)
Varus, varus, gib mir meine Legionen wiederQuick on my feet in those Novembers of my loneliness,I tossed a short pass,Almost ...
Fairford Nightingales (John Drinkwater Poems)
THE nightingales at Fairford singAs though it were a common thingTo make the day melodiousWith tones that use to visit ...
Too Late (Nora Perry Poems)
What silences we keep, year after yearWith those who are most near to us, and dear!We live beside each other ...
None is travelling (Matsuo Basho Poems)
None is travellingHere along this way but I,This autumn evening.The first day of the year:thoughts come - and there is ...
A Song Of Low Degree (Michael Fairless Poems)
Lord, I am small, and yet so great,The whole world stands to my estate,And in Thine Image I create.The sea ...
Once (Rachel Korn Poems)
Once your word was a home for meWith windows and doors open to bliss,And I knew- there was no distanceFrom ...
Sonnet (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
Is thy heart weary of unfeeling men,And chilled with the world's ice? Then come with me,And I will bring thee ...
Untitled #3 (Judita Vaiciunaite Poems)
A yellow field of flowering mustard. Loneliness and sunshine.And such a mood - as if I turned the handle of a kiddy's ...
Non Nobis (Henry Cust Poems)
NOT unto us, O Lord,Not unto us the rapture of the day,The peace of night, or love's divine surprise,High heart, ...
Tides (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
O patient shore, thou canst not go to meetThy love, the restless sea, how comfortestThou all thy loneliness? Art thou ...
A Lark above the Trenches (John William Streets Poems)
Hushed is the shriek of hurtling shells: and hark!Somewhere within that bit of soft blue sky-Grand in his loneliness, his ...
Sonnet. “Well! with what art we labour to deceive” (John Anster Poems)
Well! with what art we labour to deceiveOur hearts, and nurse vain phantasies of Hope,And swelling thoughts, that have no ...
Love knocks At The Door (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
In the pain, in the loneliness of love,To the heart of my sweet I fled.I knocked at the door of ...
“I am dazed by the beauty of my body” (Halina Poswiatowska Poems)
I am dazed by the beauty of my body.today I looked at myself with your eyes. discoveredthe soft curve of ...
“My sisters have their loves, but I” (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
My sisters have their loves, but IAm all alone, she said.And oh! the weary wonder Why.And oh! that I were ...
Sonnet To A Taper (Henry Kirke White Poems)
'Tis midnight. On the globe dead slumber sits,And all is silence—in the hour of sleep;Save when the hollow gust, that ...
To My Despoiler (Joseph Auslander Poems)
Yes, you have taken everything from me:Beauty and love and all the measurelessImpatience of proud April; even our seaShouting under ...
Luminous mind, bright devil (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Luminous mind, bright devilof absolute clusterings, of upright noon---:here we are at last, alone, without loneliness,far from the savage city's ...
Nearness (John Freeman Poems)
Thy hand my hand,Thine eyes my eyes,All of theeCaught and confused with me:My hand thy hand,My eyes thine eyes,All of ...
Dedication: To An Unknown Reader (Jan Struther Poems)
LIKE rays once shed By a spent starThe words of a dead Poet are,That through bleak space Unchecked fly on,Though hand, heart, face, To ...
English Sonnet No. 1 (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
When death close my blank eyes --Hard from so much vain torment,What thoughts will fill your young bosomOf all my ...
“In Remembrance Of Me.” (Lucy Larcom Poems)
WHO could refuseThe last wish of a friend?Loving unto the end,Fain would His love transfuseItself into the lives He left ...
Evening (Jan Struther Poems)
I have looked too long upon the sunset.Its spell has stripped me bareOf all the comfortable thoughtsThat commonly I wear.Evening's ...