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WEBtranslated from the Spanish by Thatcher Taylor Payne. My lyre! give me my lyre! my bosom feels The glow of inspiration. Oh how long Have I been left in darkness since this light Last visited my brow. Niagara! Thou with thy rushing waters dost restore The heavenly gift that sorrow took away. Tremendous torrent! for an instant hush The terrors of thy voice and cast aside Those wide involving ...
If— by Rudyard Kipling - Poems | Academy of American Poets
WEBIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster.
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poems - Academy of …
WEBOzymandias - I met a traveller from an antique land. 49 Go thou to Rome,—at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over ...
About Emily Dickinson - Academy of American Poets
WEBEmily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. She died in Amherst in 1886, and the first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890.
Invictus by William Ernest Henley - Academy of American Poets
WEBWilliam Ernest Henley, born August 23, 1849, was an influential British poet, perhaps best known for his poem “Invictus” (1875). He is the author of A Song of Speed (D. Nutt, 1903), Hawthorn & Lavender with Other Verses (D. Nutt, 1901), and For England’s Sake: Verses and Songs in Time of War (D. Nutt, 1900), among others.He died in …
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe - Academy of American Poets
WEBIt was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea: But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven ...
Ghazal - Academy of American Poets
WEBGhazal - The ghazal is composed of a minimum of five couplets. The ghazal is composed of a minimum of five couplets—and typically no more than fifteen—that are structurally, thematically, and emotionally autonomous. Each line of the poem must be of the same length, though meter is not imposed in English. The first couplet introduces a scheme, made up of a rhyme followed by a refrain.
Sonnet - Academy of American Poets
WEBThe sonnet is a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries. Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization. The name is taken from the Italian sonetto, which means “a little sound or song.”.
Trees by Joyce Kilmer - Poems | Academy of American Poets
WEBMany laughing ladies, leisurely and wise, Low rich voice, delicate gay cries, Tea in fragile china cups, ices, macaroons, Sheraton and Heppelwhite and old thin spoons, Rather dim paintings on very high walls, Windows showing lawns whereon the sunlight falls, Pink and silver gardens and broad kind trees, And fountains scattering rainbows at the whim of a breeze, Fragrance, mirth and gentleness ...
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