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.
Poems in History
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, […]
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The poem’s unnamed narrator is alone at night feeling sad and weak as he pores over old books. As he is about to fall asleep, he hears a tapping at his chamber door. He opens the door to darkness and whispers the name “Lenore,
Alone–Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and died in 1849. He was an American writer and poet. He was one of the cornerstone writers of the Romantic Movement.
We’ll Go No More A-Roving–Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron was born in 1788 and died in 1824. He was an English poet who helped lead the Romanticism movement.
Walt Whitman–One Hour to Madness and Joy
The American poet Walt Whitman was is consider the first modern poet. 20th century writers build the modern movement on Whitman’s works.
Success by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, […]
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. Why shouldst thou fill to-day with sorrow About to-morrow. My heart? One watches all with care most true; Doubt not that he will give thee […]
Room to Room by Stacey Margaret Jones
Stacey’s poems have also been published in Slant, Ariel, North Coast Review, Shelterbelt and Agave
Devoted by Janice Canerdy
Each day from dawn till late at night,
she only wished to do his will.
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I Really Hate Doing This! We Need Your Help!
I really hate doing this! We need your help again. We have run our: Raise Money Campaign very quietly. It turns out, that’s not the best way to try to raise money for something. So, we are running this request to all of our readers once again. I hate asking for money, and please believe […]
The Blues by Amit Parmessur
The Blues by Amit Parmessur Around blue, white oceans, in a blue and black house dwells a black speck. So black, so blue black alive, emotionally blue. Sometimes like a fresh road, after the rain, spellbinding every periwinkle and sometimes imitating a baffled bluebird he has had the blues so, so often that he […]