
Whitchcraft by a Picture / John Donne
Whitchcraft by a Picture John Donne I FIX mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye ; My picture drown'd in a...
On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus / Lord Byron
On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Lord Byron FROM the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome, I beheld thee, oh...
Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman / W.B. Yeats
Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman W.B. Yeats I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched...
Edge / Sylvia Plath
Edge Sylvia Plath The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the...
Sonnets from the Portuguese (no.6) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese Sonnet 6 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow....
Tears, idle tears / Lord Alfred Tennyson
Tears, idle tears Lord Alfred Tennyson Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in...
Ye Goat-Herd Gods / Philip Sidney
Ye Goat-Herd Gods Philip Sidney Ye goatherd gods, that love the grassy mountains, Ye nymphs which haunt the springs in pleasant valleys,...
Poppies in October / Sylvia Plath
Poppies in October Sylvia Plath Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts. Nor the woman in the ambulance Whose red...
Amoretti, Sonnet # 75 / Edmund Spenser
Amoretti, Sonnet # 75 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I...

O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we...

If / Rudyard Kipling
If Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when...

Marina / T.S. Eliot
Marina T.S. Eliot Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga? What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands What water lapping...

A Dirge / Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Dirge Percy Bysshe Shelley Rough wind, that moanest Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad...
After Long Silence /
William Butler Yeats
After Long Silence William Butler Yeats Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead, Unfriendly...

To his Coy Mistress / Andrew Marvell
To his Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down...

Delia XLV / Samuel Daniel
Delia XLV Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born: Relieve my...
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven / W.B. Yeats
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W.B. Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and...
God's Grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It...

Spring and Fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins to a young child Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of...

When You are Old / William Butler Yeats & Quand vous serez bien vieille / Pierre de Ronsard
שירי זקנה או שירי פיתוי? When You are Old William Butler Yeats WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire,...