Falling (James Dickey Poems)
A 29-year-old stewardess fell ... to her death tonight when she was swept through an emergency door that suddenly sprang ...
Water Poems (4187 Poems)
Of The Nature Of Things: Book I – Part 06 – Confutation Of Other Philosophers (Lucretius Poems)
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring;As proof, Candaules' story we will bring;In folly's scenes the king was truly great:His ...
The Adirondacs (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
A JOURNAL.DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW-TRAVELLERS IN AUGUST, 1858.Wise and polite,--and if I drewTheir several portraits, you would ownChaucer had no ...
Yusuf and Zuleikha (Excerpt 3) (Jami2 Poems)
Is this a dream?—-another dream,Like that which stole my senses first,Which sparkled o'er my life's dull stream,By idle, erring fancy ...
Book II – Part 02 – Atomic Motions (Lucretius Poems)
Now come: I will untangle for thy stepsNow by what motions the begetting bodiesOf the world-stuff beget the varied world,And ...
Book I – Part 06 – Confutation Of Other Philosophers (Lucretius Poems)
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
Poems For Piraye (9 To 10 O’Clock Poems) (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
Remembering you is goodin prisonamid the newsof victory and deathas my fortieth year passes...Remembering you is goodyour handforgotten upon a ...
The Muses Threnodie: Second Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
But this sad melancholick disquisition,Did not befit our jovial disposition,In these our days; therefore when we had mournedFor this good ...
Fidelity (Jared Barhite Poems)
When the infant world in its swaddling band Of mist and cloud and storm, Assumed its forms of sea and land, And the ...
ASTR (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Now with a general peace the world was blest,While ours, a world divided from the rest,A dreadful quiet felt, and ...
The Toiling Of Felix (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IPRELUDE Hear a word that Jesus spake Nineteen hundred years ago, Where the crimson lilies blow Round the blue Tiberian lake: There the bread of ...
The Death Of The Boar (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
OSSIAN.This vale of Peace, this glen close by,Where deer and elk would often cry,Of old saw the fleet-footed Fianti boundIn ...
A Story Of Doom: Book VII. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
And while he spoke there was a noise without;The curtains of the door were flung aside,And some with heavy feet ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book IV – Part 05 – The Passion Of Love (Lucretius Poems)
This craving 'tis that's Venus unto us:From this, engender all the lures of love,From this, O first hath into human ...
The Celt’s Paradise. First Duan (John Banim Poems)
OSSIAN. Man of prayers, lead me forthFrom our silent cell of care,The morning--breeze to me is worthAll thy hymns and all ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (God – Grotto) (Henry Baker Poems)
God.See Chance. Providence.Know first, that Heav'n, and Earth's compacted Frame,And flowing Waters, and the starry Flame,And both the radiant Lights ...
The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,In ev'ry age works miracles a store;Can Catos change to male coquets at ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Storm – Summer) (Henry Baker Poems)
Storm at Land.See Tempest.Oft have I seen, when now the Farmer broughtThe Reaper to his yellow Fields, and boundHis Sheaves ...
Hudibras – The Lady’s Answer to The Knight (Samuel Butler Poems)
That you're a beast, and turn'd to grass,Is no strange news, nor ever was;At least to me, who once you ...
Speech Of Honourable Preserved Doe In Secret Caucus (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I thank ye, my frien's, for the warmth o' your greetin':Ther' 's few airthly blessin's but wut's vain an' fleetin';But ...
The Sensitive Plant (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
PART 1.A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,And the young winds fed it with silver dew,And it opened its fan-like ...
Farewell Court (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
I Youth, when Fancie bare the sway, Within my peeuish braine:And Reasons lore by no meanes could My wanton will restraine:My gadding ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Flood – Fountain) (Henry Baker Poems)
Flood.See Deluge.-- Eridanus supreme of FloodsRush'd thro' the Forests, tore the lofty Woods,And rolling onward with a sweepy Sway,Bore Houses, ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XII: The Son Of The Evening Star (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Can it be the sun descendingO'er the level plain of water?Or the Red Swan floating, flying,Wounded by the magic arrow,Staining ...
The Believer’s Principles : Chap. I. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Believer's Principles, ConcerningI. Creation and Redemption.II. Law and Gospel.III. Justification and Sanctification.IV. Faith and Sense.V. Heaven and Earth.Chap. I.The Believer's ...
Reminiscence (Padraic Colum Poems)
IThe Swallows sangALIEN to us areYour fields, and your cotes, and your glebes;Secret our nests areAlthough they be built in ...
British Georgics. February (James Grahame Poems)
The long-piled mountain-snows at last dissolve,Bursting the roaring river's brittle bonds.Ponderous the fragments down the cataract shoot,And, buried in the ...
Winstanley (Jean Ingelow Poems)
THE APOLOGY.Quoth the cedar to the reeds and rushes, “Water-grass, you know not what I do;Know not of my storms, nor ...
I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill (John Keats Poems)
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a ...