Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
Suffering Poems (700 Poems)
Julian and Maddalo (excerpt) (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I rode one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice: ...
Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
I Do Not Speak (Stevie Smith Poems)
I do not ask for mercy for understanding for peace And in these heavy days I do not ask for ...
Sonnet XLII (William Shakespeare Poems)
That thou hast her, it is not all my grief, And yet it may be said I loved her dearly; ...
A Lover’s Complaint (William Shakespeare Poems)
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this ...
Self-Portrait (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
The steadfastness of generations of nobility shows in the curving lines that form the eyebrows. And the blue eyes still ...
Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision I may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels! That ...
John Brown (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
The Chorus of Old Men in Aegus (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Ye gods that have a home beyond the world, Ye that have eyes for all man's agony, Ye that have ...
Bound for your distant home (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
Bound for your distant home you were leaving alien lands. In an hour as sad as I've known I wept ...
The Artist’s Duty (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame To extend all boundaries To fog ...
Small Comfort (Katha Pollitt Poems)
Coffee and cigarettes in a clean cafe, forsythia lit like a damp match against a thundery sky drunk on its ...
Quest for Thee (Vanessa Perkins Poems)
pain used to hurt the words cut me life a knife shame filled my head at night I used to ...
Death (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Come thou, thou last one, whom I recognize, unbearable pain throughout this body's fabric: as I in my spirit burned, ...
THE MAN WITH THE HOE (Edwin Markham Poems)
BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages ...
Life (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
CHILDREN, ye have not lived, to you it seems Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams, Or carnival of careless ...
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 ...
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934 (Anais Nin Poems)
"Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
Sanity (Claire Nixon Poems)
I've held you all these years, supporting you through all. I plead for your hand just this once, then I ...
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 Relief of Mafeking (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Success to Colonel Baden-Powell and his praises loudly sing, For being so brave in relieving Mafeking, With his gallant little ...
The Wreck of the Steamer Stella (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899, Which will be remembered for a very long ...
Modern Love XXXV: It Is No Vulgar Nature (George Meredith Poems)
It is no vulgar nature I have wived. Secretive, sensitive, she takes a wound Deep to her soul, as if ...
The Watchman (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
My Claudia, it is long since we have met, So kissed, so held each other heart to heart! I thought ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Renascence (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another ...
Interim (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
The room is full of you!-As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...