Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Vampire” tells the story of a foolish man’s infatuation with a woman who doesn’t reciprocate his feelings
Poems in History
THE HIGHWAYMAN by Alfred Noyes
“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes is a haunting narrative poem that tells a tragic tale of love and sacrifice in 18th-century England.
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 sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many […]
Piano by D. H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence was born in 1885 and died in 1930. He was an English poet, author and playwright.
TOO MUCH by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was one of the most famous and influential American poets. She led a very private life, rarely leaving
The farthest thunder that I heard XXVI by Emily Dickinson
The farthest thunder that I heard XXVI by Emily Dickinson 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 one but myself, But I would not exchange the bolt For all the rest of life. […]
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was one of the most original and influential poets in American history. Though she lived
Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, […]
Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child
This poem is popularly known as Over the river and Through the Wood. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was a prominent American
Friendship by Henry David Thoreau
Friendship by Henry David Thoreau ‘Friends, Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers.’ Let such pure hate still underprop Our love, that we may be Each other’s conscience, And have our sympathy Mainly from thence. We’ll one another treat like gods, And all the faith we have In virtue and in truth, bestow On either, and suspicion leave […]
November by Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was an American poet and activist who championed Native American rights
Election Day, November, 1884
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was one of the most influential and innovative poets of the 19th century. He was born in Long Island, New York
NOVEMBER (A SONNET) by William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and influential editor. Born in Massachusetts,
Pirates by Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, short story writer and playwright who was born in 1880 in Staffordshire, England. Noyes was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he excelled in classics and was elected president of the Oxford Union.
The Vampire by James Clerk Maxwell 1845
The Vampire by James Clerk Maxwell 1845 Translated into modern English by R Edwards There is a knight riding through the woods, A brave and noble knight is he. And surely he is on an urgent quest, He rides so hastily. He passed the oak and the birch trees, And many other trees passed he, […]