On Sensibility (Poem by Robert Burns)
On Sensibility To my Dear and Much-Honoured Friend, Mrs. Dunlop, of Dunlop By Robert Burns Sensibility how charming, Thou, my friend, canst trul…
4 Stanzas Poem
Dying (Poem by Emily Dickinson)
Dying By Emily Dickinson I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of…
A Song to Mithras (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
A Song to Mithras (Hymn of the 30th Legion: circa A.D. 350.) By Rudyard Kipling Mithras, God of the Morning, our trumpets waken the Wall! 'Rome …
Blue Roses (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
Blue Roses By Rudyard Kipling Roses red and roses white Plucked I for my love's delight. She would none of all my posies — Bade me gather her b…
Growing Blind (Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)
Growing Blind By Rainer Maria Rilke Among all the others there sat a guest Who sipped her tea as if one apart, And she held her cup not qui…
Misgiving (Poem by Robert Lee Frost)
Misgiving By Robert Lee Frost All crying "We will go with you, O Wind!" The foliage follow him, leaf and stem; But a sleep oppresses them …
The Land of Fable (Poem by Victor Hugo)
The Land of Fable By Victor Hugo Now, vot'ries of the Muses, turn your eyes, Unto the East, and say what there appears! "Alas!&…
The Countess Cathleen in Paradise (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
The Countess Cathleen in Paradise By William Butler Yeats All the heavy days are over; Leave the body's coloured pride Underneath the…
Thickest Night, O'erhang My Dwelling (Poem by Robert Burns)
Thickest Night, O'erhang My Dwelling By Robert Burns (1) Thickest night, surround my dwelling! Howling tempests, o’er me rave! Turbid torren…
To John Taylor (Poem by Robert Burns)
To John Taylor By Robert Burns With Pegasus upon a day, Apollo weary flying, Through frosty hills the journey lay, On foot the way was plyin…
Peg Nicholson (Poem by Robert Burns)
Peg Nicholson By Robert Burns Peg Nicholson was a good bay mare, As ever trode on airn; But now she’s floating down the Nith, And past the m…
Delia (Poem by Robert Burns)
Delia An Ode By Robert Burns Fair the face of orient day, Fair the tints of op’ning rose, But fairer still my Delia dawns, More lovely far her beaut…
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…