Category: Poems in History

Love’s Lantern by Joyce Kilmer

Love’s Lantern by Joyce Kilmer (For Aline) Because the road was steep and long And through a dark and lonely

To Milton by Oscar Wilde Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled

The Moods by W. B. Yeats Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and

Chinese Poet Among Barbarians by Louis Untermeyer The rain drives, drives endlessly, Heavy threads of rain; The wind beats at

Anticipation by Amy Lowell I have been temperate always, But I am like to be very drunk With your coming.

Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I

Old Tunes by Sara Teasdale As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows,

Spoils of the Dead by Robert Frost Two fairies it was On a still summer day Came forth in the

The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An

On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley Thy various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp