The Hippopotamus

       Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut
       mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum
       Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros
       autem, ut concilium Dei et conjunctionem
      …

Sir Walter Scott   ( 1771 – 1832)

Farewell to the Muse

 by Sir Walter Scott 

 
  
 
  Enchantress, farewell, who so oft hast…

Anthem for Doomed Youth

by Wilfred Owen

     What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
        Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
        Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle]]> http://www.everywritersresource.com/poemeveryday/2010/anthem-for-doomed-youth-by-wilfred-owen/

William Blake

THE SICK ROSE
 

  O rose, thou art sick!
     The invisible worm,
   That flies in the night,
     In the howling storm,
…

IN THE MILE END ROAD

 by Amy Levy

How like her! But ’tis she herself,
Comes up the crowded street,
How little did I think, the morn,
My only love…

Prime

 by Amy Lowell

Your voice is like bells over roofs at dawn
When a bird flies
And the sky changes to a fresher color.
 

Speak, speak, Beloved.]]> http://www.everywritersresource.com/poemeveryday/2010/prime-by-amy-lowell-2/

Ralph Waldo Emerson  ( 1803 – 1882)

The Concord Hymn

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
     Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled;
Here…

Portent

by William Carlos Williams

Red cradle of the night,
In you
The dusky child
Sleeps fast till his might
Shall be piled
Sinew on sinew.

Red cradle of the night,
…

Drinking Alone in the Moonlight

by Li Po (or Li Bai)

Under the flowering trees, with a bottle of wine,
I drink alone, for no friend is near.
Raising my cup…

Sappho the Poet

He is More Than a Hero

by Sappho

He is a god in my eyes–
the man who is allowed
to sit beside you — he…