Love of the heart by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems Peace is all just what we need! Love is the greatest friend we plead No one has ever known who loves you nor hates you. We look outward with the appearance but human are desperate inward. Human heart determines […]
Just A Dance by Tiffany M
Baby hear me out Please Don’t just let us sink I have no planned route I just care about what you think Without a doubt There’s times I just don’t know what to say But since the day I met you I adore you more each and every day And I hope you did too […]
Thomas Lux – Thomas Lux
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In Token Of The Love You Gave by Timothy Thomas Fortune
In token of the love you gave, The faith, the trust, reposed in me, When our young hearts were gay and free, I plant this flower upon thy grave! The world is far too poor to give A value like it took away! I nevermore a joyous day, Since you are gone, shall know or […]
I shall not be a shame by Torm Gardson
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems I have started to sow Since when I no -nothing Until now that I know How to plant bold; seed of good deeds I have lived on the land Where afflictions taste like sweet I live in the land […]
I Make My bed Of Roses by Timothy Thomas Fortune
I make my bed of roses sweet! I scorn the frowns of envious Fate! I will my careless song repeat While ’round may surge contending hate! For life is what we make it still, And I am master of my will. Then let me quaff life’s nectar wine And live, a lord, the passing hour; […]
Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux Senator, statesman, speaker of the House, exceptional dancer, slim, graceful, ugly. Proclaimed, before most, slavery an evil, broker of elections (burned Jackson for Adams), took a pistol ball in the thigh in a duel, delayed, by forty years, with his compromises, the Civil War, gambler (“I have always paid […]
He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux
He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux furnished rooms, flats, a hayloft, a tent, motels, under a table, under an overturned rowboat, in a villa (briefly) but not, as yet, a yurt. In these places he has slept, eaten, put his forehead to the window glass, looking out. He’s in a stilt-house now, […]
Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux
Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux They are, the surfaces, gorgeous: a master pastry chef at work here, the dips and whorls, the wrist-twist squeezes of cream from the tube to the tart, sweet bleak sugarwork, needlework toward the perfect lace doily where sit the bone-china teacups, a little maze of meaning maybe in their arrangement […]
Gentle Heart, Indulge Thy Dreaming by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Gentle heart, indulge thy dreaming! Wake not from thy peaceful mood! The great world around thee streaming Holds no joy one-half so good! Soon thy dreams must have an ending! Thou wilt wake some early morn And, o’er shattered idols bending, Find thy peace from thee is torn! ————— The End And that’s the End […]
Death of the Legend by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems I wake and heard the death of the legend Believing is so hard I shook my head in dismay my mind turns sad Let my pen sing the song of the lose of a great hero. Let it bow […]
A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux
A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux Your baby grows a tooth, then two, and four, and five, then she wants some meat directly from the bone. It’s all over: she’ll learn some words, she’ll fall in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet talker on his way to jail. And you, your wife, get old, flyblown, […]
A Library Of Skulls by Thomas Lux
A Library Of Skulls by Thomas Lux Shelves and stacks and shelves of skulls, a Dewey Decimal number inked on each unfurrowed forehead. Here’s a skull who, before he lost his fleshy parts and lower bones, once walked beside a river (we’re in the poetry section now) his head full of love and loneliness; and […]
A Lady Aurum by Thriveni Mysore
Facing the idolum of near successive picture perfection I sat looking at her in all earthly wide wonder All that I had heard of her became much clear I kept thanking the happy chance for such lucky reflection. Gentle grace, lucid charm, distinct person full of pristine vision Setting forth moral marks by austerity, halting […]
A Kiss by Thomas Lux
A Kiss by Thomas Lux One wave falling forward meets another wave falling forward. Well-water, hand-hauled, mineral, cool, could be a kiss, or pastures fiery green after rain, before the grazers. The kiss — like a shoal of fish whipped one way, another way, like the fever dreams of a million monkeys — the kiss […]
“While with fond rapture and amaze” by Tobias Smollett
While with fond rapture and amaze On thy transcendent charms I gaze, My cautious soul essays in vain Her peace and freedom to maintain: Yet let that blooming form divine, Where grace and harmony combine. Those eyes, like genial orbs that move, Dispensing gladness, joy, and love, In all their pomp assail my view, Intent […]
Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
When Sappho struck the quivering wire, The throbbing breast was all on fire: And when she raised the vocal lay, The captive soul was charm’d away! But had the nymph possessed with these Thy softer, chaster power to please; Thy beauteous air of sprightly youth, Thy native smiles of artless truth; The worm of Grief […]
Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
When Sappho struck the quivering wire, The throbbing breast was all on fire: And when she raised the vocal lay, The captive soul was charm’d away! But had the nymph possessed with these Thy softer, chaster power to please; Thy beauteous air of sprightly youth, Thy native smiles of artless truth; The worm of Grief […]
To Mirth by Tobias Smollett
Parent of joy! heart-easing Mirth! Whether of Venus or Aurora born; Yet goddess sure of heavenly birth, Visit benign a son of Grief forlorn; Thy glittering colours gay, Around him, Mirth, display; And o’er his raptured sense Diffuse thy living influence; So shall each hill, in purer green array’d, And, flower-adorn’d, in new-born beauty glow; […]
To Independence by Tobias Smollett
Strophe. Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty! whose look sublime Hath bleach’d the tyrant’s cheek in […]
“To fix her!-’twere a task as vain” by Tobias Smollett
To fix her!-’twere a task as vain To count the April drops of rain, To sow in Afric’s barren soil, Or tempests hold within a toil. I know it, friend, she’s light as air, False as the fowler’s artful snare, Inconstant as the passing wind, As winter’s dreary frost unkind. She’s such a miser, too, […]
The Tears of Scotland by Tobias Smollett
Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish’d peace – thy laurels torn! Thy sons, for valour long renown’d, Lie slaughter’d on their native ground; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become they prey of […]
The Tears of Scotland by Tobias Smollett
Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish’d peace – thy laurels torn! Thy sons, for valour long renown’d, Lie slaughter’d on their native ground; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become they prey of […]
Reproof: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett
POET. Howe’er I turn, or wheresoe’er I tread, This giddy world still rattles round my head! I pant for silence e’en in this retreat- Good Heaven! what demon thunders at the gate? FRIEND. In vain you strive, in this sequester’d nook, To shroud you from an injured friend’s rebuke. POET. An injured friend! who challenges […]
Tobias Smollett – Tobias Smollett
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Love Elegy (in imitation of Tibullus) by Tobias Smollett
Where now are all my flattering dreams of joy? Monimia, give my soul her wonted rest; Since first thy beauty fix’d my roving eye, Heart-gnawing cares corrode my pensive breast. Let happy lovers fly where pleasures call, With festive songs beguile the fleeting hour; Lead beauty through the mazes of the ball, Or press her, […]
“Let the nymph still avoid and be deaf to the swain” by Tobias Smollett
Let the nymph still avoid and be deaf to the swain Who in transports of passion affects to complain, For his rage, not his love, in that frenzy is shown, And the blast that blows loudest is soon overblown. But the shepherd whom Cupid has pierced to the heart Will submissive adore, and rejoice in […]
To Independence by Tobias Smollett
Strophe. Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty! whose look sublime Hath bleach’d the tyrant’s cheek in […]
“From the man whom I love, though my heart I disguise,” by Tobias Smollett
From the man whom I love, though my heart I disguise, I will freely describe the wretch I despise; And, if he has sense but to balance a straw, He will sure take a hint from the picture I draw. A wit without sense, without fancy a beau, Like a parrot he chatters, and struts […]
“Come listen, ye students of every degree” by Tobias Smollett
Come listen, ye students of every degree; I sing of a wit and a tutor perdie, A statesman profound, a critic immense, In short, a mere jumble of learning and sense; And yet of his talents though laudably vain, His own family arts he could never attain. His father, intending his fortune to build, In […]
Blue-Eyed Ann by Tobias Smollett
When the rough North forgets to howl, And Ocean’s billows cease to roll; When Libyan sands are bound in frost, And cold to Nova Zembla’s lost! When heavenly bodies cease to move, My blue-eyed Ann I’ll cease to love. No more shall flowers the meads adorn; Nor sweetness deck the rosy thorn; Nor swelling buds […]
Advice: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett
–Sed podice levi Caeduntur tumidæ, medico ridente, mariscæ. O proceres! censore opus est, an haruspice nobis? JUVENAL. –Nam quis Peccandi finem posuit sibi? quando recepit Ejectum semel atteritâ de fronte ruborem? Ibid. POET. Enough, enough; all this we knew before; ‘Tis infamous, I grant it, to be poor: And who, so much to sense and […]
You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
You will go hence, sweetheart, and leave me, And may forget We ever met- And that it is, alas! will grieve me! And, yet, the past- How could it last! And could I know you would deceive me! The fleeting hours we spent together- The rambles far ‘Neath sun and star In peaceful calm and […]
Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
There is rapture in the thought, From thy words of constance caught, That the world contains no prize Like the peace thy love supplies. And I ponder o’er and o’er Words of love forevermore, As they come in tenderest tone From thy heart-which is my own. ————— The End And that’s the End of the […]
What Is Woman But A Song! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
There was love, and there was beauty, In the face upturned to me; And her hair was long and golden, Soft to touch and good to see; Her blue eyes were full of laughter As they burned into my own, Glowing like a priceless diamond- Fascinating as that stone. What is life but love, devotion!- […]
The Squirrel by Todd H. C. Fischer
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The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole
Some roads rise To meet the men who have set their way. It’s the years that turn around to say goodbye. It’s the setting sun that sends it away. Where is wisdoms light In a future that never came. In bright eyes that once dared to fight It’s an empty wind that calls my name […]
The moon at noon by Tom Mukasa
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems The moon will come out at noon, it will stand in one place, many will raise their heads, to behold the show, the sun will throw its coldness, the chill will burn holes in bones, laments will come out […]
The Leather Suitcase by Tom Berman
They don’t make suitcases like that any more. Time was, when voyage meant train, steamship distances unbridgeable waiting for a thinning mail weeks, then months, then nothing Time was, when this case was made solid, leather, heavy stitching with protective edges at the corners. Children’s train, across the Reich stops and starts again… Holland a […]
The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Have you e’er heard, at early morn, The feathered poet sing his song, Clear as a huntsman’s clarion horn, Yet softer, sweeter, and as strong? Have you e’er felt his magic power Soothe, as a balm, your troubled breast, Change into mirth the gloomy hour, Cradle th’ enchanted sense to rest? Have you e’er heard […]