Assumption (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IA mile of moonlight and the whispering wood:A mile of shadow and the odorous lane:One large, white star above the ...
Memory Poems (2640 Poems)
Sonnet II. “Weep ye and howl, for that ye did refuse” (Henry Alford Poems)
Weep ye and howl, for that ye did refuse God's feast of bounties when most largely spread,-- Sunrise and set, and clustering ...
The Absolute Dead (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
To dieTo die with body and soul.Completely.To die without leaving the sad remains of the flesh,the bloodless wax mask,surrounded by ...
Autumn (StC) (George Sterling Poems)
Ah! well I know that I shall never find Thy like this side of Heaven! Well I know That whether on the ...
Sonnet LXXXII. “The heart of man is everywhere the same” (Henry Alford Poems)
The heart of man is everywhere the same: In distant Savoy roamed we long ago With one to guide us o'er the ...
Black Mask (To Pablo Picasso) (Leopold Sedhar Senghor Poems)
She sleeps and rests on innocent sand.Koumba Tam sleeps. A green palm veils the hair fever, copper forehead bendsclosed eyelids, double ...
Thorp Green (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
I sit, this evening, far away,From all I used to know,And nought reminds my soul to-dayOf happy long ago.Unwelcome cares, ...
Hopes And Memories (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
OUR hopes in youth are like those roseate shadowsCast by the sunlight on the dewy grassWhen first the fair morn ...
A Winter Night (John Hay Poems)
The winter wind is raving fierce and shrill And chides with angry moan the frosty skies, The white stars gaze with sleepless ...
Untitled (Kingsley Amis Poems)
Things tell less and less:The news impersonalAnd from afar; no bookWorth wrenching off the shelf.Liquor brings dizzinessAnd food discomfort; allMusic ...
The Weary Hunting (Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck Poems)
My soul is sick, in evil mood; Stricken with many a lack it lies, Stricken with silence, and mine eyesIllume it with ...
“I love to walk against the yellow light,” (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
I love to walk against the yellow light,The lemon-yellow of the first daylight,When cold and clear above the frozen earthThe ...
An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare (John Milton Poems)
What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bonesThe labor of an age in piled stones?Or that his hallowed reliques should ...
Ireland (John Russell Hayes Poems)
Thy memory, green Erin, haunteth me Since first I stood upon Killarney's shore, Or saw from Limerick's spires the Shannon pourIts turbid ...
To My Little Son (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
I cannot lose the thought of you It haunts me like a little song, It blends with all I see or do Each ...
Sea Burial (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
Through the sea's crust of prisms looking upInto the run of light above the swellm,And down a fathom, down a ...
Sonnet XII. To William Jackson of Exeter. (Henry Alford Poems)
Jackson, than whom none better skilled to lead The willing spirit captive with sweet lays, Searching the hidden fountain--heads which feed Our love ...
For Pity’s Sake (John William Inchbold Poems)
Sweet! I have seen a river's barren bed, With just one line of heaven-reflecting light, That once from a pure bubbling fountain-head Had ...
Sonnet XXI. Sacred To The Memory Of Edward Spedding, Who Died September 3, 1832. (Henry Alford Poems)
This side the brow of yon sea--bounding hill There is an alley overarched with green, Where thick--grown briers entwine themselves at will; There, ...
French Possession (Henry Jean-Marie Levet Poems)
To the memory of Laura LopezOne recalls the Goyaves chapelWhere two thousand Antillean Sundays sleepThe harmonious widowhood of the port,And ...
The Burning-Glass (Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck Poems)
I watch the hours of long ago: Their blue and secret depths I set Under the burning-glass, Regret,And watch a happier flora ...
Dream Song 78: Op. posth. no. 1 (John Berryman Poems)
Darkened his eye, his wild smile disappeared,inapprehensible his studies grew,nourished he less & lesshis subject body with good food & ...
Hills Of The West (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Hills of the west, that gird Forest and farm,Home of the nestling bird, Housing from harm,When on your tops is heard Storm:Hills of ...
After (Muriel Stuart Poems)
WHEN, on an empty night in later yearsThou ponderest over sorrowful sweet things,While troubling with cold hands the muted stringsOf ...
Guernsey (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Guernsey! to me and in my partial eyes Thou art a holy and enchanted isle, Where I would linger long, and muse ...
Sunset : Hurdcott Camp (John William Streets Poems)
Hushed is the wind upon the southern hill:It died e'en as the sunset in the westSwoon'd Cleopatra-like; upon its breastMy ...
The Troubadour (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, I am a troubadourUpon a dun-grey path, singing,Singing, I know not why;For my song is not so new,Nor yet ...
Remembrance (John Henry Boner Poems)
I THINK that we retain of our dead friendsAnd absent ones no general portraiture;That perfect memory does not long endure,But ...
A Star (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
FRAMED in the darkness or the door ajar,You paused a moment while the midnight airFluttered its kisses on your eyes ...
To The Unattainable: Lament Of Mahomed Akram (Laurence Hope Poems)
I would have taken Golden Stars from the sky for your necklace,I would have shaken rose-leaves for your rest from ...