English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. James Kenneth Stephen. Poem The Old School List.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by James Kenneth Stephen The Old School List In a wild moraine of forgotten books, On the glacier of years gone by, As I plied my rake for order’s sake, There was one that […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. James Kenneth Stephen. Poem Men and Women.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by James Kenneth Stephen Men and Women 1. IN THE BACKS. As I was strolling lonely in the Backs, I met a woman whom I did not like. I did not like the […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. James Kenneth Stephen. Poem Wordsworth.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by James Kenneth Stephen Wordsworth TWO voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud’s thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Thomas Hardy. Poem At Middle-Field Gate in February.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Thomas Hardy At Middle-Field Gate in February The bars are thick with drops that show As they gather themselves from the fog Like silver buttons ranged in a row, And as evenly spaced […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Thomas Hardy. Poem Love the Monopolist.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Thomas Hardy Love the Monopolist (Young Lover’s Reverie) The train draws forth from the station-yard, And with it carries me. I rise, and stretch out, and regard The platform left, and see […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Thomas Hardy. Poem Why Did I Sketch?.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Thomas Hardy * * * Why did I sketch an upland green, And put the figure in Of one on the spot with me? ‘ For now that one has ceased to be […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Samuel Johnson. Poem The Winter’s Walk.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Samuel Johnson The Winter’s Walk Behold, my fair, where’er we rove, What dreary prospects round us rise, The naked hill, the leafless grove, The hoary ground, the frowning skies. Nor only through […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Thomas Hardy. Poem Great Things.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Thomas Hardy Great Things Sweet cyder is a great thing, A great thing to me, Spinning down to Weymouth town By Ridgway thirstily, And maid and mistress summoning Who tend the hostelry: O […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Thomas Hardy. Poem The House of Silence.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Thomas Hardy The House of Silence ‘That is a quiet place ‘ That house in the trees with the shady lawn.’ ‘ ‘ If, child, you knew what there goes on You would […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Thomas Hardy. Poem In Her Precincts.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Thomas Hardy In Her Precincts Her house looked cold from the foggy lea, And the square of each window a dull black blur Where showed no stir: Yes, her gloom within at the […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 90. ‘Retro Me, Sathana!’.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 90. ‘Retro Me, Sathana!’ Get thee behind me. Even as, heavy-curled, Stooping against the wind, a charioteer Is snatched from out his chariot by the […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 79. The Monochord.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 79. The Monochord [Written during Music] Is it the moved air or the moving sound That is Life’s self and draws my life from […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 61. The Song-Throe.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 61. The Song-Throe By thine own tears thy song must tears beget, O Singer! Magic mirror thou hast none Except thy manifest heart; and save […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 46. Parted Love.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 46. Parted Love What shall be said of this embattled day And armed occupation of this night By all thy foes beleaguered,–now when sight Nor […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 38. The Morrow’s Message.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 38. The Morrow’s Message “Thou Ghost,” I said, “and is thy name To-day?– Yesterday’s son, with such an abject brow!– And can To-morrow be more […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 28. Soul-Light.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 28. Soul-Light What other woman could be loved like you, Or how of you should love possess his fill? After the fulness of all rapture, […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Sidney Lanier. Poem Hymns of the Marshes. 3. Marsh Song – At Sunset.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Sidney Lanier Hymns of the Marshes. 3. Marsh Song – At Sunset OVER the monstrous shambling sea, Over the Caliban sea, Bright Ariel-cloud, thou lingerest: Oh wait, oh wait, in the warm red […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Samuel Johnson. Poem Stella In Mourning.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Samuel Johnson Stella In Mourning When lately Stella’s form display’d The beauties of the gay brocade, The nymphs, who found their power decline, Proclaim’d her not so fair as fine. ‘Fate! snatch away […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Poem The World Well Lost.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman The World Well Lost THAT year? Yes, doubtless I remember still,– Though why take count of every wind that blows! ‘T was plain, men said, that Fortune used me ill […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Poem Invocation.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman Invocation THOU,–whose endearing hand once laid in sooth Upon thy follower, no want thenceforth, Nor toil, nor joy nor pain, nor waste of years Filled with all cares that deaden […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Poem Witchcraft.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman Witchcraft A. D. 1692 SOE, Mistress Anne, faire neighbour myne, How rides a witche when nighte-winds blowe? Folk saye that you are none too goode To joyne the crewe […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. James Kenneth Stephen. Poem Drinking Song.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by James Kenneth Stephen Drinking Song THERE are people, I know, to be found, Who say, and apparently think, That sorrow and care may be drowned By a timely consumption of drink. Does […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. James Kenneth Stephen. Poem The Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by James Kenneth Stephen The Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger I am not ambitious at all: I am not a poet, I know (Though I do love to see a mere scrawl To […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Henry Sambrooke Leigh. Poem A Scientific Drinking Song.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Henry Sambrooke Leigh A Scientific Drinking Song Go, bring me the goblet that maddens my soul: Where the sulphate of copper lurks deep in the bowl; Where the saccharine matter tastes richly intense, […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Sidney Lanier. Poem Hymns of the Marshes. 2. Individuality.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Sidney Lanier Hymns of the Marshes. 2. Individuality SAIL on, sail on, fair cousin Cloud: Oh loiter hither from the sea. Still-eyed and shadow-brow’d, Steal off from yon far-drifting crowd, And come and […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 52. Willowwood – 4.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 52. Willowwood – 4 So sang he: and as meeting rose and rose Together cling through the wind’s wellaway Nor change at once, yet near […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 31. Her Gifts.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 31. Her Gifts High grace, the dower of queens; and therewithal Some wood-born wonder’s sweet simplicity; A glance like water brimming with the sky Or […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 42. Hope Overtaken.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 42. Hope Overtaken I deemed thy garments, O my Hope, were gray, So far I viewed thee. Now the space between Is passed at length; […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Samuel Johnson. Poem The Vanity of Wealth.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Wealth No more thus brooding o’er yon heap, With avarice painful vigils keep: Still unenjoy’d the present store, Still endless sighs are breathed for more. O! quit the […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 58. True Woman – 3. Her Heaven.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 58. True Woman – 3. Her Heaven If to grow old in Heaven is to grow young, (As the Seer saw and said,) then blest […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 100. Newborn Death – 2.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 100. Newborn Death – 2 And thou, O Life, the lady of all bliss, With whom, when our first heart beat full and fast, I […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The House of Life. Sonnet 75. Old and New Art – 2. Not as These.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life. Sonnet 75. Old and New Art – 2. Not as These “I am not as these are,” the poet saith In youth’s pride, and the painter, […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Poem Mors Benefica.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman Mors Benefica GIVE me to die unwitting of the day, And stricken in Life’s brave heat, with senses clear: Not swathed and couched until the lines appear Of Death’s wan […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Poem The Discoverer.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman The Discoverer I HAVE a little kinsman Whose earthly summers are but three, And yet a voyager is he Greater than Drake or Frobisher, Than all their […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Alexander Smith. Poem Love.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Alexander Smith Love THE fierce exulting worlds, the motes in rays, The churlish thistles, scented briers, The wind-swept bluebells on the sunny braes, Down to the central fires, Exist alike in Love. […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Sidney Lanier. Poem The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Sidney Lanier The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson “Order A. P. Hill to prepare for battle.” “Tell Major Hawks to advance the Commissary train.” “Let us cross the river and rest in the […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Sidney Lanier. Poem Hymns of the Marshes. 1. Sunrise.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Sidney Lanier Hymns of the Marshes. 1. Sunrise IN my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. The little green leaves would not let […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The Lady’s Lament.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Lady’s Lament Never happy any more! Aye, turn the saying o’er and o’er, It says but what it said before, And heart and life are just as sore. The […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poem The Wombat.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Wombat OH how the family affections combat Within this heart, and each hour flings a bomb at My burning soul! Neither from owl nor from bat Can peace be […]
English Poetry at the Poetry Monster. Samuel Johnson. Poem From Boethius.
Poets ‘ Biographies ‘ Poem Themes ‘ Random Poem ‘ Poem by Samuel Johnson From Boethius O Thou! whose power o’er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light […]