The Road That Runs Beside The River (Thomas Lux Poems)
follows the river as it bends along the valley floor, going the way it must. Where water goes, so goes ...
Pleasure Poems (2903 Poems)
Ballade of an Omnibus (Amy Levy Poems)
"To see my love suffices me." --Ballades in Blue China. Some men to carriages aspire; On some the costly hansoms ...
Christopher Found (Amy Levy Poems)
I. At last; so this is you, my dear! How should I guess to find you here? So long, so ...
Resignation (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
WHY, why repine, my pensive friend, At pleasures slipp'd away? Some the stern Fates will never lend, And all refuse ...
Why, Why Repine (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
Why, why repine, my pensive friend, At pleasures slipp'd away? Some the stern Fates will never lend, And all refuse ...
I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown (Louise Labe Poems)
I live, I die, I burn, I drown I endure at once chill and cold Life is at once too ...
December 7 (David Lehman Poems)
As I sit at my desk wishing I did not have to edit a book on poetry and painting a ...
Shake The Superflux! (David Lehman Poems)
I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one now, at two in the solemnly musical morning, ...
Epithalamium: A Marriage Poem (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
'Twas summer, when softly the breezes were blowing, And Hudson majestic so sweetly was flowing, The groves rang with music ...
1819 New Year’s Carrier’s Address (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand'red too far, Without any compass, or planet or star; My dear native village ...
The Procession (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
The legislators pass along A solemn, self-important throng! Just raised from the common mass, They feel themselves another class. --But ...
A Prayer (Claude McKay Poems)
'Mid the discordant noises of the day I hear thee calling; I stumble as I fare along Earth's way; keep ...
Peter (Marianne Moore Poems)
Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away-- the detached first ...
Baseball and Writing (Marianne Moore Poems)
Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Hymns Of The Marshes. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
Tease (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
I will give you all my keys, You shall be my ch?telaine, You shall enter as you please, As you ...
Restlessness (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
At the open door of the room I stand and look at the night, Hold my hand to catch the ...
The Whole Soul (Philip Levine Poems)
Is it long as a noodle or fat as an egg? Is it lumpy like a potato or ringed like ...
Gangrene (Philip Levine Poems)
Vous êtes sorti sain et sauf des basses calomnies, vous avey conquis les coeurs. Zola, J'accuse One was kicked in ...
The Chinese Nightingale (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A Song in Chinese Tapestries "How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead- Ended ...
Abrigail Adams to John Adams (Love Letter)
My Dearest Friend, ...should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would ...
To a Stranger (Walt Whitman Poem)
Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or ...