Poems List
Explore poems from our collection
In Ebon Box, when years have flown
In Ebon Box, when years have flown
169
In Ebon Box, when years have flown
To reverently peer,
Wiping away the velvet dust
Summers have …
I'm the little Heart's Ease
I'm the little "Heart's Ease"
176
I'm the little "Heart's Ease"!
I don't care for pouting skies!
If the Butterfly delay
Can I, therefor…
I'm sorry for the Dead—Today
I'm sorry for the Dead—Today
529
I'm sorry for the Dead—Today—
It's such congenial times
Old Neighbors have at fences—
It's time o' yea…
I'm nobody! Who are you?
I'm nobody! Who are you?
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish -- you know!
I'm wife-I've finished that
I'm "wife"-I've finished that
199
I'm "wife"-I've finished that-
That other stateI'm
Czar-I'm "Woman" nowIt's
safer so-
I'll send the feather from my Hat!
I'll send the feather from my Hat!
687
I'll send the feather from my Hat!
Who knows-but at the sight of that
My Sovereign will relent?
…
If your Nerve, deny you
If your Nerve, deny you
292
If your Nerve, deny you-
Go above your Nerve-
He can lean against the Grave,
If he fear to swerve
…
If What we could-were what we would
If What we could-were what we would
407
If What we could-were what we wouldCriterion-
be small-
It is the Ultimate of Talk-
The Impotence …
If she had been the Mistletoe
If she had been the Mistletoe
44
If she had been the Mistletoe
And I had been the Rose-
How gay upon your table
My velvet life to close-…
If this is fading
If this is "fading"
120
If this is "fading"
Oh let me immediately "fade"!
If this is "dying"
Bury me, in such a shroud of red!
If…
If pain for peace prepares
If pain for peace prepares
63
If pain for peace prepares
Lo, what "Augustan" years
Our feet await!
If springs from winter r…
If I'm lost-now
If I'm lost-now
256
If I'm lost-now
That I was found-
Shall still my transport be-
That once-on me-those Jasper Gates
Blazed open-s…
If I should die
If I should die
54
If I should die,
And you should live-
And time should gurgle on-
And morn should beam-
And noon should burn-
If I may have it, when it's dead
If I may have it, when it's dead
577
If I may have it, when it's dead,
I'll be contented-so-
If just as soon as Breath is out
It shall b…
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool …
If He dissolve—then—there is nothing
If He dissolve—then—there is nothing
236
If He dissolve—then—there is nothing—more—
Eclipse—at Midnight—
It was dark—before—
Sunset—at …
Ideals are the Fairly Oil
Ideals are the Fairly Oil
983
Ideals are the Fairly Oil
With which we help the Wheel
But when the Vital Axle turns
The Eye rejects the …
If anybody's friend be dead
If anybody's friend be dead
509
If anybody's friend be dead
It's sharpest of the theme
The thinking how they walked alive-
At such and s…
I years had been from home,
I years had been from home,
I years had been from home,
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before
I would distil a cup
I would distil a cup
16
I would distil a cup,
And bear to all my friends,
Drinking to her no more astir,
By beck, or burn, or moor!
I was the slightest in the House
I was the slightest in the House
486
I was the slightest in the House-
I took the smallest Room-
At night, my little Lamp, and Book-
And o…
I went to heaven,--
I went to heaven,--
I went to heaven,-'
T was a small town,
Lit with a ruby,
Lathed with down.
Stiller than the fields
At the full dew, <…
I tried to think a lonelier Thing
I tried to think a lonelier Thing
532
I tried to think a lonelier Thing
Than any I had seen-
Some Polar Expiation-An Omen in the Bone
Of…
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl
443
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl—
Life's little duties do—precisely—
As the very least
Were infinite—t…