| Page 1881 | Poem Lake

Title	Poet	Year Written	Collection	Body
Whether they have forgotten			English	Whether they have forgotten Or are forgetting now Or never remembered — Safer not to know — Miseries of conjecture Are a softer woe Than a Fact of Iron Hardened with I know —
Which is best? Heaven —			English	Which is best? Heaven — Or only Heaven to come With that old Codicil of Doubt? I cannot help esteem The "Bird within the Hand" Superior to the one The "Bush" may yield me Or may not...
Which is the best — the Moon or the Crescent?			English	Which is the best — the Moon or the Crescent? Neither — said the Moon — That is best which is not — Achieve it — You efface the Sheen. Not of detention is Fruition — Shudder to attain. Transport's...
Which misses most,			English	Which misses most, The hand that tends, Or heart so gently borne, 'Tis twice as heavy as it was Because the hand is gone? Which blesses most, The lip that can, Or that that went to sleep...
While Asters —			English	While Asters — On the Hill — Their Everlasting fashions — set — And Covenant Gentians — Frill!
While it is alive			English	While it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood Under one Sacrament Show me Division can split or pare — Love is like Life — merely longer Love is...
While we were fearing it, it came —			English	While we were fearing it, it came — But came with less of fear Because that fearing it so long Had almost made it fair — There is a Fitting — a Dismay — A Fitting — a Despair 'Tis harder knowing it...
White as an Indian Pipe				White as an Indian Pipe Red as a Cardinal Flower Fabulous as a Moon at Noon February Hour —
White Azaleas	Harriet McEwen Kimball		English	Azaleas—whitest of white! White as the drifted snow Fresh-fallen out of the night, Before the coming glow Tinges the morning light; When the light is like the snow, White, And the silence is like the light: Light, and...
White Roses	Cora Fabbri		English	There was a rose-tree grew so high And white with all its seven roses, It seemed a cloud ’twixt earth and sky. There was one rose among the seven That grew alone on topmost bough, Like a white star caught down from heaven. I plucked it that it...
Whither	John Vance Cheney		English	Whither leads this pathway, little one?— It runs just on and on, is never done. Whither leads this pathway, mistress fair?— That path to town, sir; to the village square. Whither leads this pathway, father old?— To the white quiet of the churchyard...
Whither	Philip Becker Goetz		English	Agnes, thou child of harmony, now fled From scenes once bright-illumined with thy smile, So innocent and kind, free from the guile Of Orient charm, mysterious and dread,— Where shall I seek thee, maid? Thou art not dead. No, Nature’s heart would break,...
Whittier	Margaret Elizabeth Sangster		English	His fourscore years and five Are gone, like a tale that is told. The quick tears start, there ’s an ache at the heart, For we never thought him old. Straight as a mountain pine, With the mountain eagle’s eye, With the hand-clasp strong, and...
Whittling	John Pierpont		English	A National Portrait THE YANKEE boy, before he ’s sent to school, Well knows the mysteries of that magic tool, The pocket-knife. To that his wistful eye Turns, while he hears his mother’s lullaby; His hoarded cents he gladly gives to get it, Then...
Who abdicated Ambush			English	Who abdicated Ambush And went the way of Dusk, And now against his subtle Name There stands an Asterisk As confident of him as we — Impregnable we are — The whole of Immortality Secreted in a...
Who Court obtain within Himself			English	Who Court obtain within Himself Sees every Man a King — And Poverty of Monarchy Is an interior thing — No Man depose Whom Fate Ordain — And Who can add a Crown To Him who doth continual...
Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?	Christopher Marlowe	1584	Love	It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should love, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: The reason no man...
Who Giants know, with lesser Men				Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy — For Greatness, that is ill at ease In minor Company — A Smaller, could not be perturbed — The Summer Gnat displays — Unconscious that his...
Who goes to dine must take his Feast			English	Who goes to dine must take his Feast Or find the Banquet mean — The Table is not laid without Till it is laid within. For Pattern is the Mind bestowed That imitating her Our most ignoble Services...
Who has not found the Heaven — below —			English	Who has not found the Heaven — below — Will fail of it above — For Angels rent the House next ours, Wherever we remove —