Category: Poems in History

The Figure-Head by Herman Melville

The Figure-Head by Herman Melville The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped, (Named from the carven pair at prow,) He so smart, and

Nightingales Robert Bridges Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom

To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works by Phillis Wheatley TO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep

The Poet and the Lily by A. B. S. Tennyson A poet was born in a modern time, ‘Neath Saturn

Only A Woman’s Hair by Lewis Carroll Only a woman’s hair! Fling it aside! A bubble on Life’s mighty stream:

Wild Asters by Sara Teasdale In the spring I asked the daisies If his words were true, And the clever

Indifference by Edna St. Vincent Millay I said, for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come, “I’ll hear

Inspiration by Aldous Huxley Noonday upon the Alpine meadows Pours its avalanche of Light And blazing flowers: the very shadows

In a Library by Emily Dickinson A precious, mouldering pleasure ‘t is To meet an antique book, In just the

The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Revolutions by Matthew Arnold Before man parted for this earthly strand, While yet upon the verge of heaven he stood,

Poets by Joyce Kilmer Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells That the wind sways above a ruined shrine. Vainer

Exposure by Wilfred Owen I Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us . . .

One Day by Rupert Brooke Today I have been happy. All the day I held the memory of you, and

Far Off-Shore by Herman Melville Look, the raft, a signal flying, Thin a shred; None upon the lashed spars lying,