A Broadway Idyl (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
For hours I stood upon The Bridge,1Which looms like a volcanic ridge,Above a scathing fire below.A flaming crater of burning ...
Perspective Poems (73 Poems)
Sleep And Poetry (John Keats Poems)
As I lay in my bed slepe full unmeteWas unto me, but why that I ne mightRest I ne wist, ...
The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Fifth. (Henry Alford Poems)
From the great sun light flows upon the earth; And every thing that lives this summer morn Looks joyous; all along the ...
The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto I (Richard Savage Poems)
Fain would my verse, Tyrconnel, boast thy name,Brownlow, at once my subject and my fame!Oh! could that spirit, which thy ...
The Muses Threnodie: Third Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
as we did behold the salmon sporting,We spied some countrie clowns to us resorting,Who striken were with sudden admiration,To see ...
A Monumental Column : A Funeral Elegy (John Webster Poems)
To The Right Honourable Sir Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and One ...
An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
The Mosque Of Cordoba (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
The succession of day and nightIs the architect of events.The succession of day and nightIs the fountain-head of life and ...
The Press (John MacCreery Poems)
ARGUMENT.ADDRESS to the Shade of Guttemberg--State of man before the Invention of Letters--Efforts of Ambition to perpetuate his fame--Birth of ...
An Ode : On Exodus iii. 14 (Matthew Prior Poems)
On Exodus iii. 14. "I am that I am."Man! foolish man!Scarce know'st thou how thyself began,Scarce hadst thou thought enough ...
From “Odi Barbare” (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
XXIVWhat is far hence led to the den of making:Moves unlike wildfire; not so simple-happyPloughman hammers ploughshare his durum dentemDigging ...
Quaker Hill (Harold Hart Crane Poems)
Perspective never withers from their eyes;They keep that docile edict of the SpringThat blends March with August Antarctic skies:These are ...
Expiring Amity (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
Of all the ills a mortal lives to mourn,From friends, from wealth, from a lov'd country torn;Exil'd by penury-or aught ...
The Dome Of Sunday (Karl Shapiro Poems)
With focus sharp as Flemish-painted faceIn film of varnish brightly fixedAnd through a polished hand-lens deeply seen,Sunday at noon through ...
Paintings (Marin Sorescu Poems)
All the museums are afraid of me,Because each time I spend a whole dayIn front of a paintingThe next day ...
Christmas Meditation (Matthew Hale Poems)
Blessed Creator, who before the BirthOf Time, or e're the Pillars of the EarthWere fix't or form'd, did'st lay that ...
The Defence (Henry King Poems)
Piensan los EnamoradosQue tienen los otros, los oios quebranta dos.VVhy slightest thou what I approve?Thou art no Peer to try ...
Epigrams (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
In its armchair, stupid and dumb,The German public watches it come.Hither and thither rumbles the storm,Heaven clouds over, more dark ...
The Insect (Pablo Neruda Poems)
From your hips down to your feetI want to make a long journey.I am smaller than an insect.Over these hills ...
The Lady Of La Garaye – Part II (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
A FIRST walk after sickness: the sweet breeze That murmurs welcome in the bending trees, When the cold shadowy foe ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto I (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto III (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Restauration.ARGUMENT. Laetior una Dies, JESU, tua Sacra Canenti; Qu?m sine Te, melicis Secula mille Lyris. Ut paveam Scelus omne, ...
A Glance At The Glories Of Sacred Friendship (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE ADDRESS. Where's Friendships Residence? To what unknown New Planet--World is That rare Phoenix flown? Great, and Good GOD! Who ...
Retrospect; (Charles Tompson Poems)
Or,A Review of my Scholastic Days"O, Festus Dies Hominis!"-O, the Joyful Day of Man!Why, (when the hours of school-day bliss ...
Youth In Memory (George Meredith Poems)
Days, when the ball of our visionHad eagles that flew unabashed to sun;When the grasp on the bow was decision,And ...
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. Third Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
THIRD EPISTLE. LOUISATOEMMA,WRITTEN THE DAY AFTER SHE HAD RECEIVED FROM HEREUGENIO'S EXCULPATING LETTER. APRIL 21st, ...
Percy Vere, The Peer’s Story – Introduction (Ernest Jones Poems)
TO MY READERS,-MY Life has been a wild, strange life,Now lulled in love-now wrapt in strife;I've had my dreams as ...
The Night (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Watchman, what of the night? See you a streak of light? Whither, O Captain of the quest, ...
Epistle To Dr. Enfield (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789Friend of those years which from Youth's sparkling fountWith silent lapse down Time's swift gulf ...
The Prospect (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
WHEN Spring luxuriant scatters new delights,The mountain's verdant slope our steps invites,To crown whose lofty brow o'er-bending treesWave their thick ...