Art poems

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Willie's Question

© George MacDonald

I.
Willie speaks.
Is it wrong, the wish to be great,
For I do wish it so?
I have asked already my sister Kate;
She says she does not know.

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Apostrophe

© Charlotte Turner Smith

TO AN OLD TREE.
WHERE thy broad branches brave the bitter North,
Like rugged, indigent, unheeded, worth,
Lo! Vegetation's guardian hands emboss

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Theory And Practice

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

The man of God stands, on the Sabbath-day,

Warning the sinners from the broad highway

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Steelhead

© Robinson Jeffers

The sky was cold December blue with great tumbling clouds,

and the little river

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The Dunciad: Book III.

© Alexander Pope

But in her Temple's last recess inclos'd,

On Dulness' lap th' Anointed head repos'd.

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The Little Left Hand - Act III

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Interior of a Church--Davis, Bradshaw, and others.
Davis.  The sword of the Lord and the sword of Gideon!
It was good To see the red--coats run before our multitude.
We broke them by sheer numbers--

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The Meaning Of Death

© Allen Tate

  Time, fall no more.
Let that be life time falls no more. The threat
Of time we in our own courage have forsworn.
Let light fall, there shall be eternal light
And all the light shall on our heads be worn

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The Poet's Apology

© Aristophanes

Our poet has never as yet

  Esteemed it proper or fit

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London Types: The Artist Muses At His Ease

© William Ernest Henley

The Artist muses at his ease,

Contented that his work is done,

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Merlin And Vivien

© Alfred Tennyson

A storm was coming, but the winds were still,
And in the wild woods of Broceliande,
Before an oak, so hollow, huge and old
It looked a tower of ivied masonwork,
At Merlin's feet the wily Vivien lay.

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Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child

© Aphra Behn

This Little, Silent, Gloomy Monument,


  Contains all that was sweet and innocent ;

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The Shadowy Waters: The Shadowy Waters

© William Butler Yeats

Second Sailor.  And I had thought to make
  A good round Sum upon this cruise, and turn—
  For I am getting on in life—to something
  That has less ups and downs than robbery.

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The Parish Register - Part I: Baptisms

© George Crabbe

floor.
  Here his poor bird th' inhuman Cocker brings,
Arms his hard heel and clips his golden wings;
With spicy food th' impatient spirit feeds,
And shouts and curses as the battle bleeds.
Struck through the brain, deprived of both his

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The Farewell

© Charles Churchill

_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewell

To all the follies which in Europe dwell;

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Ode IX: To Curio

© Mark Akenside

I.

Thrice hath the spring beheld thy faded fame 

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Aurora Leigh: Book Niinth

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


An active kind of curse. I stood there cursed,
Confounded. I had seized and caught the sense
Of the letter, with its twenty stinging snakes,
In a moment's sweep of eyesight, and I stood
Dazed.-"Ah! not married."

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Darrynane

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

Where foams the white torrent, and rushes the rill,

Down the murmuring slopes of the echoing hill-

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Cupid and Plutus

© William Shenstone

When Celia, love's eternal foe,
To rich old Gomez first was married;
And angry Cupid came to know
His shafts had err'd, his bow miscarried;

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Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric

© Adam Lindsay Gordon

Orion: But an understanding tacit.
You have prospered much since the day we met;
You were then a landless knight;
You now have honour and wealth, and yet
I never can serve you right.

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In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia

© Alexander Pope

Tho' Artemisia talks, by fits,
Of councils, classics, fathers, wits;
Reads Malbranche, Boyle, and Locke;
Yet in some things methinks she fails,
'Twere well if she would pare her nails,
And wear a cleaner smock.