Poetry Catalog

Men of the Western World! in Fate's dark bookWhence these opprobrious leaves of dire portent?Think ye your British Ancestors forsookTheir native Land, for outrage provident;From unsubmissive necks the bridle shookTo give, in their Descendants, freer ventAnd wider range to passions turbulent,To mutual tyranny a deadlier look?Nay, said a voice, soft as the south wind's … [Read more...] about Miscellaneous Sonnets, 1842 – VII – Men Of The Western World, By: William Wordsworth

You – such a dreamery born from Dionysian odes like tender day in Your winds – enchanted butterflies as the Golden Fleece – bewitched in my meek fantasy august paradise lost is thus found and so dreamy You lotus-like butterfly you – above volcanos with wing-bewitchment immortalized in the times I want to be such you and eternal thankful eyes a … [Read more...] about The Longing, The Pindaric Ode, By: Pawel Markiewicz

Two tall pines, majestic trees,Tower above gabled eaves.Swaying gently, to and fro,Wither wind, or wither no.Crisp and green in winter's gray,Yet dark amidst the wan midday. … [Read more...] about At My Window, By: James Young

Long-favoured England! be not thou misledBy monstrous theories of alien growth,Lest alien frenzy seize thee, waxing wroth,Self-smitten till thy garments reek dyed redWith thy own blood, which tears in torrents shedFail to wash out, tears flowing ere thy trothBe plighted, not to ease but sullen sloth,Or wan despair the ghost of false hope fledInto a shameful grave. Among thy … [Read more...] about Miscellaneous Sonnets, 1842 – VI – Concluded, By: William Wordsworth

my childrenmy fellow prisonerssome men are falsewe may deny it true the broad day smilesas the rain easesbut the false mansmiles so easily and are we not always toldto give the other manthe benefit of any doubtas he slips the acid into your wine i claim secret knowledge todayto share with any who careof portwine the man and his missionunder formerly levantine … [Read more...] about Portwine The Spy, By: WV Sutra