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“To Helen” by Edgar Allan Poe

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems To Helen I saw thee once—once only—years ago: I must not say how many—but not many. It was a July midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silvery-silken veil of light, With […]

“Ulalume” by Edgar Allan Poe

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Ulalume The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere— The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region […]

“The Perfect World” by Kahlil Gibran

< Return to Kahlil Gibran Poems The Perfect World God of lost souls, thou who are lost amongst the gods, hear me: Gentle Destiny that watchest over us, mad, wandering spirits, hear me: I dwell in the midst of a perfect race, I the most imperfect. I, a human chaos, a nebula of confused elements, […]

“The Greater Sea” by Kahlil Gibran

< Return to Kahlil Gibran Poems The Greater Sea My soul and I went to the great sea to bathe. And when we reached the shore, we went about looking for a hidden and lonely place. But as we walked, we saw a man sitting on a grey rock taking pinches of salt from a […]

“Night and the Madman” by Kahlil Gibran

< Return to Kahlil Gibran Poems Defeat “I am like thee, O, Night, dark and naked; I walk on the flaming path which is above my day-dreams, and whenever my foot touches earth a giant oak tree comes forth.” “Nay, thou art not like me, O, Madman, for thou still lookest backward to see how […]

“Defeat” by Kahlil Gibran

< Return to Kahlil Gibran Poems Defeat Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness; You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs, And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory. Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance, Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot And not […]

“How I Became A Madman” by Kahlil Gibran

< Return to Kahlil Gibran Poems How I Became A Madman You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen,—the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives,—I ran maskless […]

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems The Raven Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping—rapping at my chamber door. “‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, […]

V. Glee! The Great Storm is Over! by Emily Dickinson

< Return to Emily Dickinson Poems V. Glee! The great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation! Toll, for the bonnie souls, — Neighbor and friend and bridegroom, Spinning upon the shoals! How they will tell the shipwreck When winter shakes […]

Robert Frost Poems Library

Robert Frost Poems You might know Robert Frost best as the poet who wrote The Road Not Taken. But there is so much more to enjoy. We invite you to explore! 🙂 A Boy’s Will (1913 poetry collection) Part I Into My Own The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less […]