When God Is Born, No Power Prevails (Franciszek Karpinski Poems)
When God is born, no power prevails,Our Lord in nakedness enwound.All fire congeals, all luster pales,Contained is He that knows ...
Poems about luster (21 Poems)
The Consumptive (Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber Poems)
She faded, O, she faded!And the roses fled her cheek,And her voice, that caroled like a bird's,Grew tremulous and weak!Her ...
Maximus (Adelaide Anne Procter Poems)
I hold him great who, for Love's sake, Can give with generous, earnest will; Yet ...
Trouble (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Trouble is an exerciserSent us by a Wisdom wiserThan the mind of man possesses.Doubts and dangers and distressesCome not purposely ...
Living Monuments (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
OUR children are our monuments, The little ones we leave behind, If they are good and brave and kind,And labor ...
The Dying Hero (Freeman Edwin Miller Poems)
His greatness hath not left him; till the years Have won the nation from her children dead, And robbed ...
A Complaint (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Why — can anybody say? —Has upon my natal dayNothing ever taken placeOf importance to the race?Why has no one ...
The Past (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
I fling the past behind me, like a robe Worn threadbare at the seams, and out of date. I have ...
Some Advice To Those Who Will Serve Time In Prison (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
If instead of being hanged by the neck you're thrown inside for not giving up hope in the world, your ...
A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall (Robert Herrick Poem)
Chorus. What sweeter music can we bring, Than a Carol, for to sing The Birth of this our heavenly King? ...
Pearls (Bernadette Geyer Poem)
And so I look back still thinking of her with painful heart, this clench of inner flesh. -Kakinomoto Hitomaro from ...
Pulled too far (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
discontented, pulled too far our desires, off-kilter estrangement from God our lives out of balance no sense of peace stretched, ...
Morning Moon (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Their big sister, far down the sidewalk walking purposely around the church Slightly slower, noticing the bright red the sugar ...
The Freedom of the Moon (Robert Frost Poem)
I've tried the new moon tilted in the air Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster As you might try a jewel ...
Favrile (Mark Doty Poem)
Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...
Contemplations (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
Called Into Play (A. R. Ammons Poem)
Fall fell: so that's it for the leaf poetry: some flurries have whitened the edges of roads and lawns: time ...
Custer (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
To His Love When He Had Obtained Her (Sir Walter Raleigh Poems)
Now Serena be not coy, Since we freely may enjoy Sweet embraces, such delights, As will shorten tedious nights. Think ...
Gratitude (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
I thank thee, friend, for the beautiful thought That in words well chosen thou gavest to me, Deep in the ...
Nano-Knowledge (Heather McHugh Poems)
There, a little right of Ursus Major, is the Milky Way: a man can point it out, the biggest billionfold ...