What If I Say What if I say I shall not wait! What if I burst the fleshly Gate- And pass, escaped- to thee! What if I file this Mortal- off- See where it hurt me- That?s enough- And wade in Liberty! They cannot take me- any more! Dungeons can call- and Guns implore; Unmeaning- now- to me- As laughter- was- an hour ago- Or Laces- or a Traveling Show- Or Who died- yesterday! /By: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings a tune without words And never stops at all. And sweetest, in the gale, is heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That keeps so many warm. I?ve heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea Yet, never, in extremity It ask a crumb of me. /By: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me. /By: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

I am in love with him To whom a hyacinth is dearer Than I shall ever be dear. On nights when the field-mice Are abroad, he cannot sleep. He hears their narrow teeth At the bulbs of his hyacinths. But the gnawing at my heart... He does not hear. /By: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

A flower was offered to me: Such a flower as May never bore. But I said "I've a Pretty Rose-tree", And I passed the sweet flower o'er. Then I went to my Pretty Rose-tree: To tend her by day and by night. But my Rose turn'd away with jealousy: And her thorns were my only delight. /By: William Blake (1757 - 1827)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

The grave my little cottage is, Where, keeping house for thee, I make my parlor orderly, And lay the marble tea, For two divided, briefly, A cycle, it may be, 'Till everlasting life unite In strong society. /By: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction -- An erring lace, which here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacher -- A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbands to flow confusedly -- A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat -- A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility -- Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part. /By: Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

Consider this small dust, here in the glass, By atoms moved: Could you believe that this the body was Of one that loved; And in his mistress' flame playing like a fly, Was turned to cinders by her eye: Yes; and in death, as life unblessed, To have it expressed, Even ashes of lovers find no rest. /By: Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as where some buried Caesar bled. That every hyacinth the garden wears; Dropt in her lap from some once lovely head. /By: Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given; I hold his dear and mine he cannot miss; There never was a better bargain driven. My true-love hath my heart and I have his, His heart in me keeps him and me in one; My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides; He loves my heart for once it was his own, I cherish his because in me it bides. My true-love hath my heart and I have his. /By: Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

Since there's not help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I am done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we, one jot of former love retain. Now, at the last gasp of love's latest breath, When his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now, if thou woulds't, when all have given him over, From death to life Thou might'st him yet recover. /By: Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

So, the year's done with ( Love me forever! ) All March begun with, April's endeavour; May-wreaths that bound me June needs must sever; Now snows fall round me, Quenching June's fever... ( Love me forever! ) /By: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

My heart is what it was before, A house where people come and go But it is winter with your love, The sashes are beset with snow. I light the lamp and lay the cloth, I blow the coals to blaze again But it is winter with your love The frost is thick upon the pane I know a winter when it comes The leaves are listless on the boughs; I watched your love a little while And brought my plants into the house. I water them and turned them south, I snap the dead brown from the stem But it is winter with your love, I only tend and water them. There was a time I stood and watched The small ill-natured sparrows' fray I loved the beggar that I fed, I cared for what he had to say. I stood and watched him out of sight; Today I reach around the door And set a bowl upon the step My heart is what it was before. But it is winter with your love; I scatter crumbs upon the sill And close the window - and the birds May take or leave them, as they will. /By: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

There are little traits that keep me bound... I think of nothing else save the bright face of my lady- Ah me! Her swan-white throat, her strong chin, Her fresh laughing mouth which daily seems to say, "Come kiss me, love, kiss me once again! Her regal nose, her smiling grey eyes- (That thieve to steal a lovers heart)- And her brown tresses that wildly fly. Each have wounded me as with a dart So amorous are these that I deem they will slay me. Ah God, ah God! Alas, who will save me? /By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions

Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended; I have come by the highway home, And lo, it is ended. The leaves are all dead on the ground, Save those that the oak is keeping To ravel them one by one And let them go scraping and creeping Out over the crusted snow, When others are sleeping. And the dead leaves lie huddled and still, No longer blown hither and thither; The last lone aster is gone; The flowers of the witch hazel wither; The heart is still aching to seek, But the feet question "Whither?" Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season? /by Robert Frost/ Send it to a Friend       Add a Poem       Discussions