Rural Reflections (Adrienne Rich Poems)
This is the grass your feet are planted on. You paint it orange or you sing it green, But you ...
Patience Poems (547 Poems)
Late Summer (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
(ALCAICS) Confused, he found her lavishing feminine Gold upon clay, and found her inscrutable; And yet she smiled. Why, then, ...
John Brown (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
London Bridge (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
On the Way (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
Many Are Called (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
The Lord Apollo, who has never died, Still holds alone his immemorial reign, Supreme in an impregnable domain That with ...
The Master (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
A flying word from here and there Had sown the name at which we sneered, To be reviled and then ...
Tasker Norcross (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
Last night my soul cried O exalted sphere of Heaven (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
Last night my soul cried, "O exalted sphere of Heaven, you hang indeed inverted, with flames in your belly. "Without ...
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 ...
The Song Of The Widow (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
In the beginning life was good to me; it held me warm and gave me courage. That this is granted ...
To Be of Use (Marge Piercy Poems)
The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
In Plaster (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the ...
Peekabo, I Almost See You (Ogden Nash Poems)
Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it, But there comes a day when your eyes are all ...
The Arrivals (Sharon Olds Poems)
I pull the bed slowly open, I open the lips of the bed, get the stack of fresh underpants out ...
Truce (Paul Muldoon Poems)
It begins with one or two soldiers And one or two following With hampers over their shoulders. They might be ...
Genius (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
A hundred generations have gone into its making, With all their love and tenderness, with all their dreams and tears; ...
The Good Man in Hell (Edwin Muir Poems)
If a good man were ever housed in Hell By needful error of the qualities, Perhaps to prove the rule ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Amos Sibley (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Not character, not fortitude, not patience Were mine, the which the village thought I had In bearing with my wife, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
On His Blindness (John Milton Poems)
When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that ...
Sonnet 19 (John Milton Poems)
XIX When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And ...
Craving for Spring (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I wish it were spring in the world. Let it be spring! Come, bubbling, surging tide of sap! Come, rush ...