Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti
A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth: But years must pass…
The Figure-Head by Herman Melville
by Herman Melville The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped, (Named from the carven pair at prow,) He so smart, and a curly head, She tricked forth as a bride knows how: Pretty…
Nightingales by Robert Bridges
Robert Bridges Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom Ye learn your song: Where are those starry woods? O might…
The Poet and the Lily by A. B. S. Tennyson
The Poet and the Lily by A. B. S. Tennyson A poet was born in a modern time, 'Neath Saturn and his Rings, He was a child of the world's…
Only A Woman’s Hair by Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll Only a woman's hair! Fling it aside! A bubble on Life's mighty stream: Heed it not, man, but watch the broadening tide Bright with the western beam.…
Revolutions by Matthew Arnold
by Matthew Arnold Before man parted for this earthly strand, While yet upon the verge of heaven he stood, God put a heap of letters in his hand, And bade…
One Day by Rupert Brooke
by Rupert Brooke Today I have been happy. All the day I held the memory of you, and wove Its laughter with the dancing light o' the spray, And sowed…
Far Off-Shore by Herman Melville
by Herman Melville Look, the raft, a signal flying, Thin a shred; None upon the lashed spars lying, Quick or dead. Cries the sea-fowl, hovering over, "Crew, the crew?" And…
“LUCY” by Oliver Wendell Holmes
by Oliver Wendell Holmes "Lucy." The old familiar name Is now, as always, pleasant, Its liquid melody the same Alike in past or present; Let others call you what…
Beauty and Beauty by Rupert Brooke
by Rupert Brooke When Beauty and Beauty meet All naked, fair to fair, The earth is crying-sweet, And scattering-bright the air, Eddying, dizzying, closing round, With soft and drunken…
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce…
A Valentine by Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll And cannot pleasures, while they last, Be actual unless, when past, They leave us shuddering and aghast, With anguish smarting And cannot friends be firm and fast,…
The Night March by Herman Melville
by Herman Melville With banners furled and clarions mute, An army passes in the night; And beaming spears and helms salute The dark with bright. In silence deep the…
To Milton by Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers; This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours Seems fallen into ashes dull…
The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And softly…
The West Wind by William Cullen Bryant
by William Cullen Bryant It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it…
The Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
by Siegfried Sassoon "Jack fell as he'd have wished," the Mother said, And folded up the letter that she'd read. "The Colonel writes so nicely." Something broke In the tired…
Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot
Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon! Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John’s balloon Or an old battered lantern hung…
XXVI by Emily Dickinson
XXVI. The farthest thunder that I heard Was nearer than the sky, And rumbles still, though torrid noons Have lain their missiles by. The lightning that preceded it Struck no…
The Past-Present by Walt Whitman
by Walt Whitman I was looking a long while for the history of the past for myself, and for these chants and now I have found it. It is not…
The Three Kings By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Three Kings came riding from far away, Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar; Three Wise Men out of the East were they, And they traveled by night…
A Christmas Carol by James Russell Lowell
A Christmas Carol by James Russell Lowell "What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn?" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince…
The Death of Robin Hood by Eugene Field
?by Eugene Field "Give me my bow," said Robin Hood, "An arrow give to me; And where 't is shot mark thou that spot, For there my grave shall be."…
Ballade of Christmas by Andrew Lang
Ballade of Christmas by Andrew Lang Between the moonlight and the fire In winter twilights long ago, What ghosts we raised for your desire, To make your merry blood run…
CHRISTMAS BELLS by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
CHRISTMAS BELLS by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth,…
Each and All By Ralph Waldo Emerson
?By Ralph Waldo Emerson Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top looking down; The heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not…
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
? Ode to a Nightingale ?by John Keats 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull…
City of Ships by Walt Whitman
?by Walt Whitman ? City of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships! O the beautiful, sharp-bowed steam-ships and sail-ships!) City of the world! (for all races are…
THE PROBLEM by Ralph Waldo Emerson
? THE PROBLEM by Ralph Waldo Emerson I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like…
The Poor Ghost by Christina Rossetti
? The Poor Ghost by Christina Rossetti "Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me, With your golden hair all fallen below your knee, And your face as…
The Only Ghost I Ever Saw by Emily Dickinson
The Only Ghost I Ever Saw by Emily Dickinson The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin, ? so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped…
The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe
The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace? Radiant palace?reared its head. In the monarch…
THE NINE LITTLE GOBLINS by James Whitcomb Riley
THE NINE LITTLE GOBLINS by James Whitcomb Riley They all climbed up on a high board-fence? Nine little Goblins, with green-glass eyes? Nine little Goblins that had no sense, And…
The Haunted Oak by Paul Laurence Dunbar
THE HAUNTED OAK by Paul Laurence Dunbar Pray why are you so bare, so bare, Oh, bough of the old oak-tree; And why, when I go through the shade you…
THE VAMPIRE by Rudyard Kipling
by Rudyard Kipling (The verses?as suggested by the painting by Philip Burne Jones, first exhibited at the new gallery in London in 1897.) . A fool there was and he…
The Kraken by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Kraken by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest…
THAT THE NIGHT COME by W. B. Yeats
THAT THE NIGHT COME by W. B. Yeats She lived in storm and strife. Her soul had such desire For what proud death may bring That it could not endure…
THE LOOKING-GLASS BY RUDYARD KIPLING
THE LOOKING-GLASS by RUDYARD KIPLING The Queen was in her chamber, and she was middling old, Her petticoat was of satin, and her stomacher was gold. Backwards and forwards and…
Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing
SLEEPY HOLLOW No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral-stoops, No winding torches paint the midnight air; Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops Along the modest pathways, and those fair…
Kin to Sorrow by Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Edna St. Vincent Millay Am I kin to Sorrow, That so oft Falls the knocker of my door? Neither loud nor soft, But as long accustomed, Under Sorrow's hand?…
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore? While I nodded, nearly napping,…
A PORTRAIT by Nathaniel Parker Willis
A PORTRAIT by Nathaniel Parker Willis She was not very beautiful, if it be beauty's test To match a classic model when perfectly at rest; And she did not look…
The Foresaken by William Wordsworth
By William Wordsworth THE peace which others seek they find; The heaviest storms not longest last; Heaven grants even to the guiltiest mind An amnesty for what is past; When…
HUSH’D BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY by Walt Whitman
HUSH'D BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY by Walt Whitman (May 4, 1865) Hush'd be the camps to-day, And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons, And each with musing soul retire…
To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe
? To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine? A green isle in the sea, love, A…
THE WORLD’S TRIUMPHS by Matthew Arnold
? THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS by Matthew Arnold So far as I conceive the world's rebuke To him address'd who would recast her new, Not from herself her fame of strength…
XI.by Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are…
A Sea Dirge by Lewis Carroll
A SEA DIRGE ?There are certain things - as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but the thing that I hate…
To Papa by Louis M. Alcott
Louis May Alcott (1832 -1888) TO PAPA by Louisa M. Alcott In high Olympus' sacred shade A gift Minerva wrought For her beloved philosopher Immersed in deepest thought. A shield…
TO THE LAKE by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) TO THE LAKE In Spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I could not love the…
Tears Fall In My Heart by Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) Tears Fall In My Heart by Paul Verlaine Tears fall in my heart Rain falls on the town; what is this numb hurt that enters my heart?…
Farewell to the Muse by Sir Walter Scott
? Sir Walter Scott???( 1771 ? 1832) ?by Sir Walter Scott? ? ?? ? ? Enchantress, farewell, who so oft hast decoy'd me, At the close of the evening through…
IN THE MILE END ROAD by Amy Levy
?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 to meet! Who else that…
X. Emily Dickinson
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For…
Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter…
A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days…
Winter In The Boulevard by D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence (1885?1930) The frost has settled down upon the trees And ruthlessly strangled off the fantasies Of leaves that have gone unnoticed, swept like old Romantic stories now no…
A VALENTINE by Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll And cannot pleasures, while they last, Be actual unless, when past, They leave us shuddering and aghast, With anguish smarting? And cannot friends be firm and fast,…
The World-Soul by Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free; Thanks to each man of…
Those Who Love by Sara Teasdale
Those Who Love by Sara Teasdale Those who love the most Do not talk of their love; Francesca, Guenevere, Dierdre, Iseult, Heloise In the fragrant gardens of heaven Are silent,…
The Tempest by James T. Fields
We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare to sleep, It was midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. 'Tis a fearful thing…
Break, Break, Break by Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Success by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
A REBEL by John Gould Fletcher
by John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950) Tie a bandage over his eyes, And at his feet Let rifles drearily patter Their death-prayers of defeat. Throw a blanket over his body, It…
THE BELLS by Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Mist by Henry David Thoreau
Mist by Henry David Thoreau Low-anchored cloud, Newfoundland air, Fountain head and source of rivers, Dew-cloth, dream drapery, And napkin spread by fays; Drifting meadow of the air, Where bloom…
To Myself by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Myself Let nothing make thee sad or fretful, Or too regretful; Be still; What God hath ordered must be right; Then find in it thine own delight, My will.…
Fragment by Edwin Arlington Robinson
About Edwin Robinson: Born at Head Tide, Maine, Dec. 22, 1869. Educated at Harvard University. Mr. Robinson is a psychological poet of great subtlety; his poems are usually studies of types and he has given us a remarkable series of portraits. He is recognized as one of the finest and most distinguished poets of our time. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE by Louis Untermeyer
PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE by Louis Untermeyer What nudity is beautiful as this Obedient monster purring at its toil; These naked iron muscles dripping oil And the sure-fingered rods that…
WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY by Alfred Edward Housman
A. E. Housman was born March 26, 1859, and, after a classical education, he was, for ten years, a Higher Division Clerk in H. M. Patent Office. Later in life, he became a teacher.
THE MOON by William H. Davies
According to his own biography, William H. Davies was born in a public-house called Church House at Newport, in the County of Monmouthshire, April 20, 1870, of Welsh parents. He was, until Bernard Shaw "discovered" him, a cattleman, a berry-picker, a panhandler?in short, a vagabond. In a preface to Davies' second book, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1906)
Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen was born at Oswestry on 18th March 1893
INVICTUS by William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Columbus by Joaquin Miller
Joaquin Miller (1841-1913)
SEED-TIME AND HARVEST by John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
THE NEVERMORE by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) THE NEVERMORE by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell; Unto thine ear I hold…
Be Strong by Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858-1901)
Chattanooga by Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
SORROWS AND JOYS by George Meredith
George Meredith 1828-1909 SORROWS AND JOYS Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise As souls to the immortal skies, And there look down like mothers' eyes. But let thy joys…
Madonna Mia by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
THE HIGHWAYMAN by Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
Remembrance by Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
Fast rode the knight by Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Soldier’s Wife by Robert Southey
Robert Southey (1774-1843) The Soldier's Wife by Robert Southey Weary way-wanderer languid and sick at heart Travelling painfully over the rugged road, Wild-visag'd Wanderer! ah for thy heavy chance! Sorely…
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim, As from my tent I emerge so…
The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he…
The Death-Bed by Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
There’s a certain slant of light by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Nightpiece by James Joyce
James Joyce (1882-1941)
IF by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
The Spider And The Fly by Mary Howitt
Mary Howitt? (1799-1888) The Spider And The Fly "Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly; "'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you may spy.…
When I am dead by Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti (1930-1894)
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
ANNABEL LEE by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allen Poe ( 1809-1849)
Trees by Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)