1965
free-verse Excerpt
Oh, but it is dirty!
—this little filling station,
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1964
dream-song Excerpt
Nothin very bad happen to me lately.
How you explain that? —I explain that, Mr Bones,
1947
villanelle Excerpt
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
1938
free-verse Excerpt
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
1922
lyric Public Domain
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
1920
lyric Public Domain
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
1915
blank-verse Public Domain
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
1915
lyric Public Domain
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
1914
free-verse Public Domain
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool maker, Stacker of Wheat,
1911
free-verse Public Domain
Twelve o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
1911
dramatic-monologue Public Domain
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
1910
lyric Public Domain
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
1902
lyric Public Domain
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
1900
lyric Public Domain
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
1898
dramatic-monologue Public Domain
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
1896
lyric Public Domain
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
1895
didactic-verse Public Domain
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
1895
lyric Public Domain
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
1892
free-verse Public Domain
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
1877
curtal-sonnet Public Domain
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
1861
lyric Public Domain
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
1855
free-verse Public Domain
THERE was a child went forth every day;
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became;
1845
narrative-verse Public Domain
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
1844
lyric Public Domain
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
1819
ode Public Domain
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
1817
sonnet Public Domain
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
1807
lyric Public Domain
I would I were a careless child,
Still dwelling in my Highland cave,
1797
lyric Public Domain
Or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment.
1794
lyric Public Domain
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
c. 1650
lyric Public Domain
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
1648
lyric Public Domain
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
1611
prose-poem Public Domain
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1611
Public Domain
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
1611
Public Domain
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
free-verse Excerpt
all the food critics hate iceberg lettuce.
you'd think romaine was descended from
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