PoetryThe End of the Play The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter’s bell: A moment… By William Makepeace Thackeray
PoetryInvocation Oh you who appeared to me in this desert of a world, Inhabitant of the… By Alphonse de Lamartine
Poetry“My life has been the poem I would have writ” My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both… By Henry David Thoreau
PoetryOn His Seventy-Fifth Birthday I strove with none; for none was worth my strife, Nature I loved, and next… By Walter Savage Landor
Poetry“somewhere i have never travelled…” somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in… By E. E. Cummings
PoetryThe Paradox No lover saith, I love, nor any other Can judge a perfect lover ; He… By John Donne
Poetrysince feeling is first since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never… By E. E. Cummings
PoetryMaternity Her body, sweet to be his food, Yields him his precious milk and good. No… By Katharine Tynan Hinkson