A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Stress Poems (209 Poems)
Time to play (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It is a pristine page, clean on the blue screen where I compose, I don't expect it to stay that ...
The Garden of Janus (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
The Garden of Janus (Aleister Crowley Poem)
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Winter Stores (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
WE take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, ...
A Letter to a Live Poet (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Sir, since the last Elizabethan died, Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse, Blind with much light, passed to the light ...
Saul (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Rabbi Ben Ezra (Robert Browning Poem)
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin (Robert Browning Poem)
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
Start Where You Stand (Berton Braley Poem)
Start where you stand and never mind the past, The past won't help you in beginning new, If you have ...
CHARMIDES (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
Queen Henrietta Maria (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(To Ellen Terry) In the lone tent, waiting for victory, She stands with eyes marred by the mists of pain, ...
Custer (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
THE PRISM (Barry Tebb Poems)
Through the windows the sun's light Turns to amber, the moon's to jade; All night long I lie awake, wondering ...
Epilogue (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
Nephelidia (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, Pallid and pink ...
Learn To Like (Robert William Service Poems)
School yourself to savour most Joys that have but little cost; Prove the best of life is free, Sun and ...
Laziness (Robert William Service Poems)
Let laureates sing with rapturous swing Of the wonder and glory of work; Let pulpiteers preach and with passion impeach ...
Sensibility (Robert William Service Poems)
I Once, when a boy, I killed a cat. I guess it's just because of that A cat evokes my ...
Sonnet I (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
NOR judge me light, tho' light at times I seem, And lightly in the stress of fortune bear The innumerable ...
Diving into the Wreck (Adrienne Rich Poems)
First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put ...
To The God of Pain (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
UNWILLING priestess in thy cruel fane, Long hast thou held me, pitiless god of Pain, Bound to thy worship by ...
On the Bay (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
When the salt wave laps on the long, dim shore, And frets the reef with its windy sallies, And the ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
The End of the Day (Amy Levy Poems)
To B. T. Dead-tired, dog-tired, as the vivid day Fails and slackens and fades away.-- The sky that was so ...
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 ...
In the Black Forest (Amy Levy Poems)
I lay beneath the pine trees, And looked aloft, where, through The dusky, clustered tree-tops, Gleamed rent, gay rifts of ...
Acknowledgment. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. O Age that half believ'st thou half believ'st, Half doubt'st the substance of thine own half doubt, And, half ...