Le Portrait Charles Baudelaire La Maladie et la Mort font des cendres De tout le feu qui pour nous flamboya. De ces grands yeux si...

Tenebrae Paul Celan Nah sind wir, Herr, nahe und greifbar. Gegriffen schon, Herr, ineinander verkrallt, als wär der Leib eines jeden von...

Ballade of an Omnibus Amy Levy "To see my love suffices me." --Ballades in Blue China. Some men to carriages aspire; On some the costly...

On The Threshold Amy Levy O God, my dream! I dreamed that you were dead; Your mother hung above the couch and wept Whereon you lay all...

At a Dinner Party Amy Levy With fruit and flowers the board is decked, The wine and laughter flow; I'll not complain—could one expect So...

The Red Shoes Anne Sexton I stand in the ring in the dead city and tie on the red shoes. Everything that was calm is mine, the watch with...

Sylvia's Death Anne Sexton for Sylvia Plath O Sylvia, Sylvia, with a dead box of stones and spoons, with two children, two meteors...

Said The Poet To The Analyst By Anne Sexton My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. I...

Ringing the Bells Anne Sexton And this is the way they ring the bells in Bedlam and this is the bell-lady who comes each Tuesday morning...

Averno Louise Glück Averno. Ancient name Avernus. A small crater lake, ten miles west of Naples, Italy; regarded by the ancient Romans as...

Matins Louise Glück You want to know how I spend my time? I walk the front lawn, pretending to be weeding. You ought to know I'm never...

Aboriginal Landscape Louise Glück You’re stepping on your father, my mother said, and indeed I was standing exactly in the center of a...

All Hallows Louise Glück Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken. The oxen sleep in their blue yoke, the fields having...

Beloved, my Beloved (Sonnet XX ) Elizabeth Barrett Browning Beloved, my Beloved, when I think That thou wast in the world a year ago,...

First time he kissed me (Sonnet XXXVIII ) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this...

Because thou hast the power (Sonnet XXXIX) Elizabeth Barrett Browning Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace To look through...

If thou must love me, let it be for nought (Sonnet XIV) Elizabeth Barret Browning If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for...

Many in aftertimes will say of you Christina Rossetti Vien dietro a me e lascia dir le genti. – Dante Contando i casi della vita nostra....

When we met first (Sonnet XXXVI) Elizabeth Barret Browning When we met first and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. Could...

Crying, my little one, footsore and weary Christina Rossetti Crying, my little one, footsore and weary? Fall asleep, pretty one, warm on...

De Profundis Christina Rossetti Oh why is heaven built so far, Oh why is earth set so remote? I cannot reach the nearest star That hangs...

I wish I could remember that first day Christina Rossetti "Era gia l’ora che volge il desio. "– Dante "Ricorro al tempo ch’io vi vidi...

A Birthday Christina Rossetti My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose...

A Daughter of Eve Christina Rossetti A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A...