Lament (Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)
Lament By Rainer Maria Rilke Oh! All things are long passed away and far. A light is shining but the distant star From which it still …
Poetry
Blood and the Moon (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
Blood and the Moon (1) By William Butler Yeats Blessed be this place, More blessed still this tower; A bloody, arrogant power Rose out of the race U…
On Receiving a Curious Shell (Poem by John Keats)
On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Ladies By John Keats Hast thou from the caves of Golconda, a gem Pure as the ice-dr…
Poem on Life (Poem by Robert Burns)
Poem on Life Addressed to Colonel de Peyster, Dumfries, 1796 By Robert Burns My honoured colonel, deep I feel Your interest in the Poet’s weal; Ah! …
Parting (Poem by Emily Dickinson)
Parting By Emily Dickinson My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, …
Big Bear the Indian Chief (Poem by James McIntyre)
Big Bear the Indian Chief By James McIntyre The following impromptu was given at a banquet to one of the captives of Fort Pit after he had related h…
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears and Some Books (Poem by Robert Lee Frost)
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears and Some Books By Robert Lee Frost Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would some day make hi…
Labor and the Angel (Poem by Duncan Campbell Scott)
Labor and the Angel By Duncan Campbell Scott The wind plunges — then stops; And a column of leaves in a whirl, Like a dervish that spins — drops, Wi…