Love (Poem by Kahlil Gibran)
Love By Kahlil Gibran They say the jackal and the mole Drink from the self-same stream Where the lion comes to drink. And they say the eagle and the…
Pinned Poem
Sonnet (Poem by John Keats)
Sonnet By John Keats How many bards gild the lapses of time! A few of them have ever been the food Of my delighted fancy, — I could brood Ov…
Israfel (Poem by Edgar Allan Poe)
Israfel By Edgar Allan Poe In Heaven a spirit doth dwell "Whose heart-strings are a lute;" None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, …
Land Clearing (Poem by James McIntyre)
Land Clearing By James McIntyre The first winter which I did spend In Canada was with a friend, And when the snow had passed away Quite early in the…
Spain (Poem by Walter Whitman)
Spain (1873-1874) By Walter Whitman Out of the murk of heaviest clouds, Out of the feudal wrecks and heap’d-up skeletons of kings, Out of that old e…
Wisdom (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
Wisdom By William Butler Yeats The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary. Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By…
Sonnet (Poem by Robert Burns)
Sonnet, Written on the 25th January, 1793, The Birthday of the Author, On Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk By Robert Burns Sing on, sweet thr…
Music (Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)
Music By Rainer Maria Rilke What play you, O Boy? Through the garden it stole Like wandering steps, like a whisper — then mute; What play y…
Hymn (Poem by Edgar Allan Poe)
Hymn (translation from the Greek Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius) By Edgar Allan Poe (1) Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal, Like thos…
Singapore (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
Singapore By Rudyard Kipling Hail, Mother! East and West must seek my aid Ere the spent gear shall dare the ports afar. The second doorway of th…