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...

Wo wird einst des Wandermüden / Heinrich Heine Wo wird einst des Wandermüden Letzte Ruhestätte sein? Unter Palmen in dem Süden? Unter...

Les chercheuses de poux Arthur Rimbaud Quand le front de l'enfant, plein de rouges tourmentes, Implore l'essaim blanc des rêves...

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...

Reiselied Hugo von Hofmannsthal Wasser stürzt, uns zu verschlingen, Rollt der Fels, uns zu erschlagen, Kommen schon auf starken Schwingen...

Ballade des äußeren Lebens Hugo von Hofmannsthal Und Kinder wachsen auf mit tiefen Augen, Die von nichts wissen, wachsen auf und sterben,...

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,...

First Grade Ron Koertge Until then, every forest had wolves in it, we thought it would be fun to wear snowshoes all the time, and we...

Patterns Amy Lowell I walk down the garden paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the...

Sonnet John Keats After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains For a long dreary season, comes a day Born of the gentle South, and clears...

Full Moon and Little Frieda Ted Hughes A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket - And you listening. A...

Vespers Louise Glück - 1943- In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment. I must report...