Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Common Cold
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!You shall not sneer at me.Pick up your hat and stethoscope,Go wash your mouth with laundry soap;I contemplate a joy..
© Ogden Nash
Always Marry An April Girl
Praise the spells and bless the charms,I found April in my arms.April golden, April cloudy,Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;April soft in flowered..
© Ogden Nash
A Word To Husbands
To keep your marriage brimmingWith love in the loving cup,Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.
© Ogden Nash
Adventures Of Isabel
Isabel met an enormous bear,Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous.The..
© Ogden Nash
Otho The Great - Act V
SCENE I.A part of the Forest.Enter CONRAD and AURANTHE.Auranthe. Go no further; not a step more; thou artA master-plague in the midst of miseries.Go..
© John Keats
Otho The Great - Act Iv
SCENE I.AURANTHE'S Apartment.AURANTHE and CONRAD discovered.Conrad. Well, well, I know what ugly jeopardyWe are cag'd in; you need not pester..
© John Keats
Sonnet. Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds
Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven,--the domainOf Cynthia,--the wide palace of the sun,--The tent of Hesperus, and all his train,--The bosomer of clouds..
© John Keats
Sonnet Xiii. Addressed To Haydon
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome alley, and in..
© John Keats
Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford
I.The Gothic looks solemn,The plain Doric columnSupports an old Bishop and Crosier;The mouldering arch,Shaded o'er by a larchStands next door to..
© John Keats
Sonnet Xiv. Addressed To The Same (Haydon)
Great spirits now on earth are sojourning;He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake,Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake,Catches his freshness from..
© John Keats
Sonnet. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'D
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweetFetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness;Let us find out, if we..
© John Keats
Sonnet. Written Before Re-Read King Lear
O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute!Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away!Leave melodizing on this wintry day,Shut up thine olden pages, and be..
© John Keats
Otho The Great - Act Iii
SCENE I.The Country.Enter ALBERT.Albert. O that the earth were empty, as when CainHad no perplexity to hide his head!Or that the sword of some brave..
© John Keats
Sonnet Xiv. Addressed To The Same (Haydon)
Great spirits now on earth are sojourning;He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake,Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake,Catches his freshness from..
© John Keats
Sonnet Xiii. Addressed To Haydon
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome alley, and in..
© John Keats
Ode. Written On The Blank Page Before Beaumont And Fletcher's Tragi-Comedy 'The Fair Maid Of The Inn'
Bards of Passion and of Mirth,Ye have left your souls on earth!Have ye souls in heaven too,Doubled-lived in regions new?Yes, and those of heaven..
© John Keats
On Hearing The Bag-Pipe And Seeing
Of late two dainties were before me plac'dSweet, holy, pure, sacred and innocent,From the ninth sphere to me benignly sentThat Gods might know my own..
© John Keats
Song. Written On A Blank Page In Beaumont And Fletcher's Works
1.Spirit here that reignest!Spirit here that painest!Spirit here that burneth!Spirit here that mourneth!Spirit! I bowMy forehead low,Enshaded with..
© John Keats
Sonnet To John Hamilton Reynolds
O that a week could be an age, and weFelt parting and warm meeting every week,Then one poor year a thousand years would be,The flush of welcome ever..
© John Keats
Written In The Cottage Where Burns Was Born
This mortal body of a thousand daysNow fills, O Burns, a space in thine own room,Where thou didst dream alone on budded bays,Happy and thoughtless of..
© John Keats
To George Felton Mathew
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song;Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to viewA fate more pleasing, a..
© John Keats
Sonnet. A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode Of Paulo And Francesca
As Hermes once took to his feathers light,When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,So on a Delphic reed, my idle sprightSo played, so charmed..
© John Keats
The Eve Of Saint Mark. A Fragment
Upon a Sabbath-day it fell;Twice holy was the Sabbath-bellThat call'd the folk to evening prayer;The city streets were clean and fairFrom wholesome..
© John Keats
Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis
Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loudUpon the top of Nevis, blind in mist!I look into the chasms, and a shroudVapourous doth hide them, -- just..
© John Keats