The Folly Of Being Comforted (William Butler Yeats Poems)
One that is ever kind said yesterday: 'Your well-beloved's hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her ...
Patience Poems (547 Poems)
The Wanderings of Oisin: Book III (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
Impatience (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
How can I wait until you come to me? The once fleet mornings linger by the way; Their sunny smiles ...
Recompense (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Straight through my heart this fact to-day, By Truth's own hand is driven: God never takes one thing away, But ...
A Word for the Hour (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse Light after light goes out. One evil star, Luridly glaring through the smoke ...
The Spider (Jane Taylor Poems)
"Oh, look at that great ugly spider!" said Ann; And screaming, she brush'd it away with her fan; "'Tis a ...
One Almost Might (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Wouldn't you say, Wouldn't you say: one day, With a little more time or a little more patience, one might ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
M’Fingal – Canto III (John Trumbull Poems)
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
TO FOUR PSYCHOANALYSTS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Richard Chessick, John Gedo, James Grotstein and Vamik Voltan What darknesses have you lit up for me What depths of ...
The Princess (The Conclusion) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
So closed our tale, of which I give you all The random scheme as wildly as it rose: The words ...
Genius (Mark Twain Poems)
Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. Geniuses are people who dash of weird, ...
Patience (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and ...
The Civil War (Anne Sexton Poems)
I am torn in two but I will conquer myself. I will dig up the pride. I will take scissors ...
To-Day, This Insect (Dylan Thomas Poems)
To-day, this insect, and the world I breathe, Now that my symbols have outelbowed space, Time at the city spectacles, ...
Epistle to Mrs. Tyler (Christopher Smart Poems)
It ever was allow'd, dear Madam, Ev'n from the days of father Adam, Of all perfection flesh is heir to, ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment C (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
Dedication To Joseph Mazzini (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Take, since you bade it should bear, These, of the seed of your sowing, Blossom or berry or weed. Sweet ...
The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
The Two Paths Of Virtue (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Two are the pathways by which mankind can to virtue mount upward; If thou should find the one barred, open ...
The Beasts’ Confession (Jonathan Swift Poems)
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
In The Naked Bed, In Plato’s Cave (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
In the naked bed, in Plato's cave, Reflected headlights slowly slid the wall, Carpenters hammered under the shaded window, Wind ...
Cows (Robert William Service Poems)
I love to watch my seven cows In meads of buttercups abrowse, With guilded knees; But even more I love ...
The Ballad Of How Macpherson Held The Floor (Robert William Service Poems)
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
Post Office Romance (Robert William Service Poems)
The lady at the corner wicket Sold me a stamp, I stooped to lick it, And on the envelope to ...
Looking-Glass River (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam-- O the clean gravel! O the smooth stream! ...
Sonnet LVIII (William Shakespeare Poems)
That god forbid that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at ...
Lawyer (Carl Sandburg Poems)
WHEN the jury files in to deliver a verdict after weeks of direct and cross examinations, hot clashes of lawyers ...
Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision I may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels! That ...