The lake

Celestial Love
Higher far,
Upward, into the pure realm,
Over sun or star,
Over the flickering Dæmon... more

Poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson

by: Ralph Waldo Emerson | category: Love Poetry | rating:

Story Of Isaac
The door it opened slowly,
my father he came in,
I was nine years old.
And he stood... more

Poet: Leonard Cohen

by: Leonard Cohen | category: Family Poetry | rating:

The Art Of Drowning
I wonder how it all got started, this business
about seeing your life flash before your... more

Poet: Billy Collins

by: Billy Collins | category: Art Poetry | rating:

The Stranger
The restaurants on hot spring evenings
Lie under a dense and savage air.
Foul drafts and... more

Poet: Aleksandr Blok

by: Aleksandr Blok | category: Sad Poetry | rating:

Limits
Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset,
There must be one (which, I am not... more

Poet: Jorge Luis Borges

by: Jorge Luis Borges | category: Sad Poetry | rating:

Porphyria's Lover
The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the... more

Poet: Robert Browning

by: Robert Browning | category: Love Poetry | rating:

The Fairies
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little... more

Poet: William Allingham

by: William Allingham | category: Art Poetry | rating:

At the British Museum
I turn the page and read:
"I dream of silent verses where the rhyme
Glides... more

Poet: Richard Aldington

by: Richard Aldington | category: Art Poetry | rating:

I Taught Myself To Live Simply
I taught myself to live simply and wisely,
to look at the sky and pray to God,
and to... more

Poet: Anna Akhmatova

by: Anna Akhmatova | category: Art Poetry | rating:

Are You There?
Each lover has some theory of his own
About the difference between the ache
Of being... more

Poet: W. H. Auden

by: W. H. Auden | category: Love Poetry | rating: