A Gallery To The Temple. The Nosegay (Ralph Knevet Poems)
If I could weepe my self into a spring, Or a perpetuall current: then This Metamorphosis might seeme a thing Of merit, in ...
Passion Poems (1980 Poems)
To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old. The Author Then Forty (Matthew Prior Poems)
Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters,Were summoned by her high command To show their ...
Longfellow (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Pleasant as sound of falling rain amongThe summer leaves, and the sweet as after rainThe moist earth is when the ...
To The Countess Guiccioli, After Reading Her “Recollections Of Lord Byron” (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Like one who, homeward bound from distant lands,Describes strange climes and visions passing fair,Yet deftly hides from others' eyes and ...
To John Forbes, Esq. (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
ON HIS BRINGING ME FLOWERS FROM VAUCLUSE, ANDWHICH HE HAD PRESERVED BY MEANS OFAN INGENIOUS PROCESS IN THEIRORIGINAL BEAUTY. SWEET spoils ...
A Queen’s Grief (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Then all gave way mind, passion, pride.Croly."A BOON a boon thou noble queen,"A suppliant kneeling said,"There's one doth crave a ...
Palinode-December (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Like some lorn abbey now, the wood Stands roofless in the bitter air;In ruins on its floor is strewed The carven foliage ...
A Mother’s Lament For An Only One (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Seek not to calm my grief, To stay the falling tear;Have pity on me, ye my friends, The hand of God is ...
To Flora (Henry Baker Poems)
False one! You have oft profess'd,I alone could make you blest;Wherefore then am I despis'd?Wherefore is my Rival priz'd?Why, he's ...
Odysseus to Telemachus (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
My dear Telemachus,The Trojan Waris over now; I don't recall who won it.The Greeks, no doubt, for only they would ...
As Like The Woman As You Can (William Ernest Henley Poems)
'As like the Woman as you can' -(Thus the New Adam was beguiled) -'So shall you touch the Perfect Man' ...
To Mrs. Centlivre At That Time Dangerously Ill. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Struck with a Passion for unhappy Rowe,To whom so many finish'd Scenes we owe,I paid my Tribute to his mighty ...
Lines By A Clerk (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
OH! I did love her dearly,And gave her toys and rings,And I thought she meant sincerely,When she took my pretty ...
Last Trams (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
ITHAT street washed with violetWrites like a tabletOf living here; that pavementIs the metal embodimentOf living here; those terracesFilled with ...
A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor’s Fight (Herman Melville Poems)
Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, More ponderous than nimble;For since grimed War here laid asideHis painted pomp, 'twould ...
Beauty (Nora Jane Hopper Chesson Poems)
Beauty was born of the world's desireFor the wandering water, the wandering fire.Under the arch of her hurrying feet,She has ...
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 ...
Circumstance (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
The waves, the winds of Circumstance! What arm their strength can stem?What struggling mortal has a chance To bind or buffet them?Against ...
A Letter of Advice (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
You tell me you're promised a lover,My own Araminta, next week;Why cannot my fancy discoverThe hue of his coat, and ...
Night Prayer (Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck Poems)
Below the somnolence of prayer, Under languid visions I Hear the passions surge and cry:Lust with lust is warring there.Thro' the lassitude ...
Love Under The Ledger (McDonald Clarke Poems)
LOVE knock'd one night, at a Gentleman's heart, When his passions were snug asleep;But they all jumped up, with a terrible ...
Curly Locks (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
_Curly Locks! Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine?Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine,--But sit on ...
To Cordelia (Mark Akenside Poems)
JULY, 1740.From pompous life's dull masquerade,From Pride's pursuits, and Passion's war,Far, my Cordelia, very far,To thee and me may Heaven ...
Toys (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
SHE loves the flowers, the wind that bends the fir;When the Spring comes she dances; and her mirthComes always when ...
Apology Of Genius (Mina Loy Poems)
Ostracized as we are with GodThe watchers of the civilized wastesreverse their signals on our track Lepers of the moonall magically ...
“How hard for me, the splendor of this crown and robe” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
-- How hard for me, the splendor of this crown and robe,amidst my shame -- -- In stony Troezen will be ...
The Pen (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Mightier than the sword thou art,Thou can'st pierce like venomed dart,Time and space count naught with thee,Leagues of land or ...
Unyielding (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
When I called you in your gardenMango blooms were rich in fragrance -Why did you remain so distant,Keep your doors ...
A Career (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
"Break me my bounds, and let me fly To regions vast of boundless sky; Nor I, like piteous Daphne, be Root-bound. Ah, no! ...
Daughter Of Egypt (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
DAUGHTER of Egypt, veil thine eyes! I cannot bear their fire; Nor will I touch with sacrifice Those altars of desire. For they are ...