To Ladies Of A Certain Age (John Trumbull Poems)
Ye ancient Maids, who ne'er must prove The early joys of youth and love, Whose names grim Fate (to whom ...
Will & Determination Poems (911 Poems)
Song of the Open Road. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
To Oratists. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO oratists-to male or female, Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to use words. Are you full-lung'd and ...
Dedication (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Dedication These to His Memory--since he held them dear, Perchance as finding there unconsciously Some image of himself--I dedicate, I ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
The Lonely God (James Stephens Poems)
So Eden was deserted, and at eve Into the quiet place God came to grieve. His face was sad, His ...
Contrast (Robert William Service Poems)
"Carry your suitcase, Sir?" he said. I turned away to hide a grin, For he was shorter by a head ...
Wounded (Robert William Service Poems)
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
The Womb (Robert William Service Poems)
Up from the evil day Of wattle and of woad, Along man's weary way Dark Pain has been the goad. ...
Ruins of Rome, by Bellay (Edmund Spenser Poems)
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
Sonnet LVIII By Her That Is Most Assured To Her Selfe (Edmund Spenser Poems)
WEake is th'assurance that weake flesh reposeth, In her owne powre and scorneth others ayde: that soonest fals when as ...
Visions of the worlds vanitie. (Edmund Spenser Poems)
One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe, My spirit, shaking off her earthly prison, Began to enter into ...
Sonnet XIII (William Shakespeare Poems)
O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are No longer yours than you yourself here live: Against this coming ...
The Hermit of Mont-Blanc (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
High, on the Solitude of Alpine Hills, O'er-topping the grand imag'ry of Nature, Where one eternal winter seem'd to reign; ...
Sonnet 13: O, that you were your self! But, love, you are (William Shakespeare Poems)
O, that you were your self! But, love, you are No longer yours than you yourself here live. Against this ...
The Apple Orchard (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Come let us watch the sun go down and walk in twilight through the orchard's green. Does it not seem ...
Night (O you whose countenance) (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Night. O you whose countenance, dissolved in deepness, hovers above my face. You who are the heaviest counterweight to my ...
Octaves (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
London Bridge (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
Captain Craig (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
The Book of Annandale (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
Rahel to Varnhagen (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
Cassidy’s Epitaph (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Here lies a bloke who's just gone West, A Number One Australian; He took his gun and did his best ...
Three Women (Sylvia Plath Poems)
A Poem for Three Voices Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about FIRST VOICE: I am slow as the world. ...
Bohemia (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Authors and actors and artists and such Never know nothing, and never know much. Sculptors and singers and those of ...
E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre (Ezra Pound Poems)
For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain ...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) (Ezra Pound Poems)
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
These Fought in Any Case (Ezra Pound Poems)
These fought in any case, and some believing pro domo, in any case ..... Died some, pro patria, walked eye-deep ...
Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
You never heard tell of the story? Well, now, I can hardly believe! Never heard of the honour and glory ...
SECOND POEM (Peter Orlovsky Poems)
Morning again, nothing has to be done, maybe buy a piano or make fudge. At least clean the room up ...