All Poems
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A Man Meets A Woman In The Street
© Randall Jarrell
Under the separated leaves of shade
Of the gingko, that old tree
Future Poetry
© Alice Meynell
No new delights to our desire
The singers of the past can yield.
I lift mine eyes to hill and field,
And see in them your yet dumb lyre,
Poets unborn and unrevealed.
A Vision Of The Vatican
© Frances Anne Kemble
Graciously smiling, heavenly Aphrodite
Hath filled my senses with a vague delight;
And Pallas, steadfastly beholding me,
Hath sent me forth in wisdom to be free."
The Delights Of Rungsted. An Ode
© Johannes Ewald
You shadows refreshing,
You darkness from roses now stealing;
Hymn 139
© Isaac Watts
How oft have sin and Satan strove
To rend my soul from thee, my God!
But everlasting is thy love,
And Jesus seals it with his blood.
Lips Shut. Seen In Rome
© Arthur Rimbaud
In Rome within the Sistine Chapel,
Covered over with Christian signs,
There is a scarlet coloured casket
Where most ancient noses dry:
On Napoleon's Escape From Elba
© George Gordon Byron
Once fairly set out on his party of pleasure,
Taking towns at his liking, and crowns at his leisure,
From Elba to Lyons and Paris he goes,
Making balls for the ladies, and bows tohis foes.
An Artist
© Robinson Jeffers
That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarryman,
Who astonished Rome and Paris in his meteor youth, and then
was gone, at his high tide of triumphs,
Without reason or good-bye; I have seen him again lately, after
twenty years, but not in Europe.
A White Road
© William Stanley Braithwaite
A white road between sea and land,
Night and silence on either hand
Pointing to some unknown gate
A white forefinger of fate.
Duponts Round Fight (November, 1861)
© Herman Melville
In time and measure perfect moves
All Art whose aim is sure;
Evolving rhyme and stars divine
Have rules, and they endure.
To A Youth Who Wooed A Woman Older Than Himself
© Sappho
Friend, woo me not so earnestly.
Vain is thy prayer.
On the Just and the Unjust
© Blanche Edith Baughan
OUTCAST, a horror to his kind,
At night he to the forest fled.
Descreve a cidade da Bahia
© Gregorio de Matos Guerra
A cada canto um grande conselheiro,
Que nos quer governar cabana e vinha;
Não sabem governar sua cozinha,
E podem governar o mundo inteiro.
Un Secret
© Alexis Felix Arvers
Mon ame a son secret, ma vie a son mystere:
Un amour eternel en un moment concu.
Le mal est sans espoir, aussi j'ai du le taire,
Et celle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.
Prisonnier d'un bureau, je connais le plaisir
© François Coppée
Prisonnier d'un bureau, je connais le plaisir
De goûter, tous les soirs, un moment de loisir.
Je rentre lentement chez moi, je me délasse
Aux cris des écoliers qui sortent de la classe ;
To My Bride (Whoever She May Be)
© William Schwenck Gilbert
Oh! little maid! - (I do not know your name
Or who you are, so, as a safe precaution
I'll add) - Oh, buxom widow! married dame!
(As one of these must be your present portion)
Listen, while I unveil prophetic lore for you,
And sing the fate that Fortune has in store for you.
The Sea Hath Its Pearls. (From The German Of Heinrich Heine)
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sea hath its pearls,
The heaven hath its stars;
But my heart, my heart,
My heart hath its love.
