The Road not Taken Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood...

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 FROM the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome, I beheld thee, oh...

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 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 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, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in...

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 Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts. Nor the woman in the ambulance Whose red...

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! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we...

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 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 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 Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead, Unfriendly...

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 (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 Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and...

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 to a young child Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of...

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,...

An Irish Airman foresees his Death William Bytler Yeats I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I...

A Coat William Butler Yeats I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools...

Multiple Sclerosis Cynthia Huntington For ten years I would not say the name. I said: episode. Said: setback, incident,...