Silentium amoris | A poem by Oscar Wilde, 1881
Oscar Wilde. . As oftentimes the too resplendent sunHurries the pallid and reluctant moonBack to her sombre cave, ere she...
Poems
Adam’s Curse | A poem by William Butler Yeats, 1903
Ichiro Tsuruta, Japanese woman with wisteria hat . We sat together at one summer’s end, That beautiful mild woman, your...
One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted | Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886
Grandma Moses, Halloween, 1955 . One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house;...
The Lady Unknown | A poem by Alexander Blok, 1907
Kees van Dongen, Lady in a Black Hat, 1908 Of evenings hangs above the restaurantA humid, wild and heavy air.The...
To a Skylark | A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820
Samuel Palmer, The Skylark, 1850 . Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near...
I choose | Jalal-Al-Din Rumi, 1207 –1273
Frederic Leighton, Flaming June, 1895 . I choose to love you in silence… For in silence I find no rejection,...
On Clothes | A poem by Kahlil Gibran, 1923
Sir William Russell Flint, Blustery Day, St. Malo, 1925 . And the weaver said, Speak to us of Clothes. And...
Song | A poem by Allen Ginsberg, 1954
Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco, 1959 . The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the...
Bed in Summer | A poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1913
American Forestry Assn., Bird house contest, Washington, D.C., 1921 . In winter I get up at night And dress by...
First Memory | A poem by Louise Glück, 1990
Louise Glück . Long ago, I was wounded. I lived to revenge myself against my father, not for what he...