Great poems

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Thebais - Book One - part I

© Pablius Papinius Statius

Fraternal rage, the guilty Thebes’ alarms,  

Th’ alternate reign destroyed by impious arms,  

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Psalm 78 part 4

© Isaac Watts

v.32ff
L. M.
Backsliding and forgiveness; or, Sin punished and saints saved.

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The Crocuses

© Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

In the everlasting arms
Mid life's dangers and alarms
Let calm trust your spirit fill;
Know He's God, and then be still.

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David

© Thomas Parnell

When e'er his flocks the lovely shepherd drove
To neighb'ring waters, to the neighb'ring grove;
To Jordan's flood refresh'd by cooling wind,
Or Cedron's brook to mossy banks confin'd,
In easy notes and guise of lowly swain,
'Twas thus he charm'd and taught the listning train.

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The House Of Dust: Part 03: 12:

© Conrad Aiken

The walls and roofs, the scarlet towers,
Sank down behind a rushing sky.
He heard a sweet song just begun
Abruptly shatter in tones and die.
It whirled away. Cold silence fell.
And again came tollings of a bell.

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Tale XV

© George Crabbe

transgress'd,
And while the anger kindled in his breast,
The pain must be endured that could not be

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The Tombs Of The Kings

© Mathilde Blind

Where the mummied Kings of Egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold,

Couched for ages in their coffins, crowned with crowns of dusky gold,

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The Columbiad: Book I

© Joel Barlow

Ah, lend thy friendly shroud to veil my sight,
That these pain'd eyes may dread no more the light;
These welcome shades shall close my instant doom,
And this drear mansion moulder to a tornb.

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Winter

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

How large that thrush looks on the bare thorn-tree!

A swarm of such, three little months ago,

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Italy : 16. St. Mark's Rest

© Samuel Rogers

Over how many tracts, vast, measureless,
Ages on ages roll, and none appear
Save the wild hunter ranging for his prey;
While on this spot of earth, the work of man,

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King Saul at Gilboa

© Henry Kendall

With noise of battle and the dust of fray,

Half hid in fog, the gloomy mountain lay;

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Life

© Edith Wharton

We climbed the slopes of solitude, and there
Life met a god, who challenged her and said:
"Thy pipe against my lyre!" But "Wait!" she laughed,
And in my live flank dug a finger-hole,
And wrung new music from it. Ah, the pain!

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The Legend Of St. Sophia Of Kioff

© William Makepeace Thackeray

A worthy priest he was and a stout—
 You've seldom looked on such a one;
For, though he fasted thrice in a week,
Yet nevertheless his skin was sleek;
His waist it spanned two yards about
 And he weighed a score of stone.

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The Basset-Table : An Eclogue

© Alexander Pope

Cardelia.
The Basset-Table spread, the Tallier come;
Why stays Smilinda in the Dressing-Room?
Rise, pensive Nymph, the Tallier waits for you:

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Aspirations

© Mathilde Blind

I.
I SAW thee in the streets, so wan and pale;
  My heart, it shivered at the saddening sight;
Like a thin cloud thou wert, that though the sky doth sail,
  And threatens to dissolve, each moment, on its flight.

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The Sleepers

© Walt Whitman

I WANDER all night in my vision,
Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and
  stopping,
Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers,
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,
Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.

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Now The Lilac Tree’s In Bud

© Bliss William Carman

NOW the lilac tree's in bud,
And the morning birds are loud.
Now a stirring in the blood
Moves the heart of every crowd.

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A Singing Bird In The City

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

Golden-throated, hath God sent thee for our comfort in the city?

Sweet, sweet! singing, singing all the day.

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A Poem To His Magesty, Presented To The Lord Keeper. To The Right Hon. Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper

© Joseph Addison

If yet your thoughts are loose from state affairs,

Nor feel the burden of a kingdom's cares;

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To A Certain Cantatrice

© Walt Whitman

HERE, take this gift!

I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or General,