To Modjeska As Rosalind (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
When from the poet's brain fair Arden's gladesWere peopled with the lightsome folk we know,A shade of discontent was seen ...
Poets Poems (2283 Poems)
False Poets And True (To Wordsworth) (Thomas Hood Poems)
Look how the lark soars upward and is gone,Turning a spirit as he nears the sky!His voice is heard, but ...
The Friendly Meeting (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
IN spreading mantle to my chin concealed,I trod the rocky path, so steep and grey,Then to the wintry plain I ...
Written On The Anniversary Of Our Father’s Death (Hartley Coleridge Poems)
STILL for the world he lives, and lives in bliss,For God and for himself. Ten years and threeHave now elapsed ...
The Golden Test (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
There is no god but gold, my son,Each man but wins his price.The man who fails is the man to ...
Sonnet I “Poet! If on a Lasting Fame Be Bent” (Henry Timrod Poems)
Poet! if on a lasting fame be bentThy unperturbing hopes, thou will not roamToo far from thine own happy heart ...
Tennyson: In Lucem Transitus, October, 1892 (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
FROM the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendors of the moon,To the singing tides of heaven, and the light ...
Sonnett – XIX (James Russell Lowell Poems)
THE SAME CONCLUDEDFar 'yond this narrow parapet of Time,With eyes uplift, the poet's soul should lookInto the Endless Promise, nor ...
On the Sale by Auction of Keat’s Love-Letters (Oscar Wilde Poems)
These are the letters which Endymion wroteTo one he loved in secret and apart,And now the brawlers of the auction-martBargain ...
Seaside Talkers (Provincetown Summer of 1917) (Harry Kemp Poems)
They drank the bitter, salt wine of the sea,They breathed up drowning bubbles from belowWhile we sat in the storm's ...
Egypt-Port Said – En Route (Henry Jean-Marie Levet Poems)
To Gabriel FabreOne looks at the brilliant fires of Port Said,As the Jews looked at the Promised Land;Because one cannot ...
Sonnet XXVII. To A Lady Of Rank (John Moultrie Poems)
Many there be, in these our factious days,Whose hate would unrelentingly lay lowCrown, coronet, and mitre, at a blow,Scarce sparing ...
Sonnet: The Sovereigns (Lloyd Mifflin Poems)
THEY who create rob death of half its stings;They, from the dim inane and vague opaqueOf nothingness, build with their ...
To A. M. G. (Jan Struther Poems)
Whose thoughtfulness provides the soilWherein a poet's restless toilMay raise, through drought and frost and showers,His kittle and refractory flowers:For ...
On First Entering Westminster Abbey (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
Thabor of England! since my light is shortAnd faint, O rather by the sun anewOf timeless passion set my dial ...
Democrat (Gerrit Achterberg Poems)
In this room I'm finally at home.Never again shall I write a verse that tearsmy life apart in order to ...
Love Sonnet XXI (Zora Bernice May Cross Poems)
If there should be a moon above the hillTo-night, dip down with me into the seaOf our first passion, and, ...
Sonnet On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again (John Keats Poems)
O GOLDEN tongued Romance, with serene lute!Fair plumed Syren, Queen of far-away!Leave melodizing on this wintry day,Shut up thine olden ...
Au Salon (Laurence Hope Poems)
A sky intensely blue, a low, white wallAgainst it heaps of up-blown yellow sand,A sleeping figure, holding in her handSome ...
Dedication: To An Unknown Reader (Jan Struther Poems)
LIKE rays once shed By a spent starThe words of a dead Poet are,That through bleak space Unchecked fly on,Though hand, heart, face, To ...
To A Person Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me (Matthew Prior Poems)
Lie Philo untouch'd, on my peaceable shelf,Nor take it amiss that so little I heed thee;I've no envy to thee, ...
On Two Sisters Whose Deaths Were Together (Padraic Colum Poems)
IN woods remote, hid in the mountain hollows,Doves there are that have a gentler beauty,Doves that are marked as by ...
Italy (Giuseppe Ungaretti Poems)
I am a poet, a unanimouscry, ama cleat of dreamsa fruitof innumerable conflicting graftsripened in the hothouseBut the same earth ...
The Flash at Midnight (James Montgomery Poems)
The flash at midnight! - 'twas a lightThat gave the blind a moment's sightThen sank in tenfold gloom;Loud, deep, and ...
The Poet’s Death (John Clare Poems)
The world is taking little heed And plods from day to day:The vulgar flourish like a weed, The learned pass away.We miss ...
Bryant Dead! (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LO! there he lies, our Patriarch Poet, dead!The solemn angel of eternal peaceHas waved a wand of mystery o'er his ...
Trade Circular (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
(To the Poets' Ladies)SHALL I give you the Bourbon-sugarsOf sherry and yellow skyAnd a girl in a country curricleMerrily bowling ...
Fires (Joseph Campbell Poems)
The little fires that Nature lights — The scilla's lamp, the daffodil —She quenches, when of stormy nights Her anger whips the ...
The Author, To The Reader, (Henry Bold Poems)
When as our English Poets, those happier menThat can drop wonders from their fluent pen:Have with their miracles of PoetryFeasted ...
iron plieurs (Miroslav Valek Poems)
In the street Vuk Karadzicwith the cornertwo men curve steel stems.It is a little the work of the poet.Iron like ...