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 …
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The Rose of Peace (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
The Rose of Peace By William Butler Yeats If Michael, leader of God’s host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven…
The Ladies (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
The Ladies By Rudyard Kipling I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'a…
A Prayer: Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish (Poem by Robert Burns)
A Prayer: Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish By Robert Burns O Thou Great Being! what Thou art Surpasses me to know; Yet sure …
The League and Covenant (Poem by Robert Burns)
The League and Covenant By Robert Burns The solemn League and Covenant Cost Scotland blood-cost Scotland tears; But it sealed freedom’s sacred c…
A Stick of Incense (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
A Stick of Incense By William Butler Yeats Whence did all that fury come? From empty tomb or Virgin womb? Saint Joseph thought the world would melt …
On R.A., Esq. (Poem by Robert Burns)
On R.A., Esq. By Robert Burns Know thou, O stranger to the fame Of this much lov’d, much honour’d name! (For none that knew him need be told) A warm…
Epitaph (Poem by Robert Burns)
Epitaph By Robert Burns Here brewer Gabriel’s fire’s extinct, And empty all his barrels: He’s blest — if, as he brew’d, he drink — In uprigh…
Lines on Mrs. Kemble (Poem by Robert Burns)
Lines on Mrs. Kemble By Robert Burns Kemble, thou cur’st my unbelief Of Moses and his rod; At Yarico’s sweet notes of grief The rock with te…