Campus Sonnets: Before An Examination (Stephen Vincent Benet Poems)
The little letters dance across the page,Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes;Sick of the strain, the glaring light, ...
Silver Poems (2292 Poems)
I Shall Be Loved As Quiet Things (Karle Wilson Baker Poems)
I shall be loved as quiet thingsAre loved—white pigeons in the sun,Curled yellow leaves that whisper downOne after one;The silver ...
Sonnet XXXII. On Revisiting Ludlow Castle (John Moultrie Poems)
Three days had we been wedded, when we stoodWithin thy well known walls, (my bride and I)Majestic Ludlow; from a ...
The City Of The Soul: II (Lord Alfred Douglas Poems)
What shall we do, my soul, to please the King?Seeing he hath no pleasure in the dance,And hath condemned the ...
At the Aquarium (Max Eastman Poems)
Serene the silver fishes glide, Stern-lipped, and pale, and wonder-eyed! As through the aged deeps of ocean, They glide with ...
Sonnet III. On Robin Hood (John Hamilton Reynolds Poems)
With coat of Lincoln green and mantle too,And horn of ivory mouth, and buckle bright,And arrows wing'd with peacock-feathers light,And ...
In the Night (Joaquin Arcadio Pagaza Poems)
IT seems like noon, so bright the lustre shedOn the damp forest by the moon's white glow.The breeze scarce moves ...
December Sonnet (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ROUND the December heights the clouds are gray--Gray, and wind-driven toward the stormy west,They fly, like phantoms of malign unrest,To ...
Scowing (John Frederic Herbin Poems)
From the marsh hay-fields, owned of sea and sky,Come the wet scow-loads, drifting with the tide;While fragmentary breezes curl and ...
The Toll-Gate House (John Drinkwater Poems)
THE toll-gate's gone, but still stands lone,In the dip of the hill, the house of stone,And over the roof in ...
The Huntress of Stars (George Sterling Poems)
Tell me, O Night! what horses hale the moon!Those of the sun rear now on Syria's day,But here the steeds ...
Song (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Where, from the eye of day, The dark and silent riverPursues through tangled woods a way O'er which the tall trees quiver;The ...
Silverhorn (Hilda Conkling Poems)
It is out in the mountainsI find him,My snowy deerWith silver horns like dew,Horns that sparkle.I think I see him ...
Sonnet: As From The Darkening Gloom A Silver Dove (John Keats Poems)
As from the darkening gloom a silver doveUpsoars, and darts into the eastern light,On pinions that nought moves but pure ...
Sonnet: Oh! How I Love, On A Fair Summer’s Eve (John Keats Poems)
Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve,When streams of light pour down the golden west,And on the balmy ...
Sonnet XIII:The light that rises from your feet to your hair (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The light that rises from your feet to your hair,the strength enfolding your delicate form,are not mother of pearl, not ...
River Lilies (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
Saw a boy three lilies white,Lilies in the river,Half heart-open to the light,Full of golden arrows bright,Each a silver quiver.Lilies, ...
The Sand Of Wisdom (Patience Worth Poems)
Lo, Wisdom is the sand upon the shoreOf Eternity. Yea, man playsUpon the shore, letting the silver stuffFlow through his ...
Twilight (Patience Worth Poems)
Twilight. Long shadows stretchTheir stealthy fingers wood-ward.Soft tolls the bell which marks the vesper hour.Mist-veiled, the hillocks liftTheir heads 'gainst ...
Snow (Helge Rode Poems)
There is nothing in the world that's as silent as snowwhen gently through air it's decending,muffles each step you take,hushes, ...
An August Noon (James Herbert Morse Poems)
High summer Noon! Yon crow of all his kindStands indefatigably impudent--A vigilant scout upon a battlementOf his vast fortress. Underneath ...
Secret (Gwendolyn Bennett Poems)
I shall make a song like you hair . . .Gold-woven with shadows green-tinged,And I shall play with my songAs ...
Alf’s Tenth Bit (Ezra Pound Poems)
WINDScarce and thin, scarce and thinThe government's excuse,Never at all will they doAught of the slightest use.Over the dying half-wits ...
The Flag of our Destinies (Henry Lawson Poems)
With our boundaries swung to the circling seas and a nation named to the world!And the six-starred flag of our ...
Sonnet. Sweet Poets Of The Gentle Antique Line (John Hamilton Reynolds Poems)
Sweet poets of the gentle antique line,That made the hue of beauty all eterne;And gave earth's melodies a silver turn,--Where ...
A Song Of The Degrees (Ezra Pound Poems)
IRest me with Chinese colours,For I think the glass is evil.IIThe wind moves above the wheat-With a silver crashing,A thin ...
Sonnet XII. On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour (John Keats Poems)
Give me a golden pen, and let me leanOn heaped-up flowers, in regions clear, and far;Bring me a tablet whiter ...
Pardon Time (John Charles McNeill Poems)
Give over now; forbear. The moonlight steepsIn silver silence towered castle-keepsAnd cottage crofts, where apples bend the bough.Peace guards us round, ...
Spirals (Jewell Miller Poems)
Spirals fascinate me:They ascendBy such gentle gradations.Little green spiralsOf the vineThat creep softly--Then lay strong holdOn stony crevices,Lifting a great ...
The Description Of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer (Robert Greene Poems)
HIS stature was not very tall,Lean he was, his legs were small,Hosed within a sock of red,A buttoned bonnet on ...