English poetry

English Poems – Page 246

More English Poems

Dying at my music!

Dying at my music!
Bubble! Bubble!
Hold me till the Octave's run! …
Dying! Dying in the night!

Dying! Dying in the night!
Won't somebody bring the light
So I can see which way to go …
Dying! To be afraid of thee

Dying! To be afraid of thee
One must to thine Artillery
Have left exposed a Friend — …
Each Life Converges to some Centre —

Each Life Converges to some Centre —
Expressed — or still —
Exists in every Human Nature …

Emily Dickinson
Each Man is in his Spectre's power

* * *
[4] [This world del.] Each Man is in [the del.] his Spectre’s power
[3] Until the arrival of that hour, …

William Blake
Each Scar I'll keep for Him

Each Scar I'll keep for Him
Instead I'll say of Gem
In His long Absence worn …
Each Second is the last

Each Second is the last
Perhaps, recalls the Man
Just measuring unconsciousness …
Each that we lose takes part of us;

Each that we lose takes part of us;
A crescent still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night, …

Emily Dickinson
Eden is that old-fashioned House

Eden is that old-fashioned House
We dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode …

Emily Dickinson
El Mahdi to the Australian Troops

And wherefore have they come, this warlike band,
That o'er the ocean many a weary day
Have tossed; and now beside Suakim's Bay, …

Banjo Paterson
Elegy 1830 (Pushkin)

⁠The vanished joy of my crazy years
Is as heavy as gloomy hang-over.
But, like wine, the sorrow of past days …

Alexander Pushkin
Elegy on the death of Cleora

No more of Zephyr's airy robe I'll sing,
Or balmy odours dropping from his wing,
Or how his spicy breath revives the lands, …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
Elegy on the death of Gen. Montgomery

Melpomene, now strike a mournful string,
Montgomery's fate assisting me to sing!
Thou saw him fall upon the hostile plain …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
An Elegy on Winter in Argyleshire

‘With cheerless gloom and storm-portending clouds
Rude Winter brushes from Antarctic wilds,
The front of Heav’n, in murky vapours shrouds, …

Charles Tompson Jr.
Elijah's Wagon knew no thill

Elijah's Wagon knew no thill
Was innocent of Wheel
Elijah's horses as unique …

Emily Dickinson
Elizabeth told Essex

Elizabeth told Essex
That she could not forgive
The clemency of Deity …
Elysium is as far as to

Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest Room
If in that Room a Friend await …

Emily Dickinson
Emancipation (Dickinson)

No rack can torture me,
My soul 's at liberty.
Behind this mortal bone …

Emily Dickinson
Embarrassment of one another

Embarrassment of one another
And God
Is Revelation's limit, …
Empty my Heart, of Thee —

Empty my Heart, of Thee —
Its single Artery —
Begin, and leave Thee out — …

Emily Dickinson