Poetry

The Law of the Jungle By  Rudyard Kipling Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may pros…

Maidens (1) By Rainer Maria Rilke Others must by a long dark way Stray to the mystic bards, Or ask some one who has heard them sing Or …

The Woman Who Loves By Rainer Maria Rilke Ah yes! I long for you. To you I glide And lose myself — for to you I belong. The hope that h…

Dreams By  Edgar Allan Poe Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awakening, till the beam Of an Eternity should bring the morrow…

Exclusion By  Emily Dickinson The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. Unmoved, she notes the c…

The Children's Song By  Rudyard Kipling Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee Our love and toil in the years to be; When we are grown and take our…

The Lyric League * By  William Hodgson Ellis We be seventy Lyric Poets, All in the Fatherland, Our verse is delightful, although its Not easy to unde…

Gathering Leaves By  Robert Lee Frost Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great nois…

Evening By  Emily Dickinson The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one,     Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded wi…

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…

Sleep and Poetry By  John Keats What is more gentle than a wind in summer ? What is more soothing than the pretty hummer That stays one moment in an …