https://www.stanza.to Recently added poems on Stanza, the social space for poetry. en-us https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-find-charles-kingsley https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-find-charles-kingsley Yon sound's neither sheep-bell nor bark, They're running - they're running, Go hark! The sport may be lost by a moment's delay; So whip up the puppies and scurry away. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/weltschmertz-paul-laurence-dunbar https://www.stanza.to/poems/weltschmertz-paul-laurence-dunbar You ask why I am sad to-day, I have no cares, no griefs, you say? Ah, yes, 't is true, I have no grief-- But--is there not the falling leaf? Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/sonnet-lxi-francesco-petrarca-petrarch https://www.stanza.to/poems/sonnet-lxi-francesco-petrarca-petrarch Io non fu' d' amar voi lassato unquanco. UNLESS LAURA RELENT, HE IS RESOLVED TO ABANDON HER. Yet was I never of your love aggrieved, Nor never shall while that my life doth last: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/perversities-ii-john-frederick-freeman https://www.stanza.to/poems/perversities-ii-john-frederick-freeman Yet when I am alone my eyes say, Come. My hands cannot be still. In that first moment all my senses ache, Cells, that were empty fill, Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/a-mother-to-the-sea-charles-hamilton-musgrove https://www.stanza.to/poems/a-mother-to-the-sea-charles-hamilton-musgrove You are blue, you are blue like the sky, Cruel and cold and blue, And I turn from you, voiceless sea, To a sky that is voiceless, too. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/you-ask-me-why-tho-ill-at-ease-alfred-lord-tennyson https://www.stanza.to/poems/you-ask-me-why-tho-ill-at-ease-alfred-lord-tennyson You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease, Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-the-right-honourable-mildmay-earl-of-westmoreland-robert-herrick https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-the-right-honourable-mildmay-earl-of-westmoreland-robert-herrick You are a lord, an earl, nay more, a man Who writes sweet numbers well as any can; If so, why then are not these verses hurled, Like Sybil's leaves, throughout the ample world? Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-eyes-of-beauty-charles-baudelaire https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-eyes-of-beauty-charles-baudelaire You are a sky of autumn, pale and rose; But all the sea of sadness in my blood Surges, and ebbing, leaves my lips morose, Salt with the memory of the bitter flood. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/meditation-for-his-mistress-robert-herrick https://www.stanza.to/poems/meditation-for-his-mistress-robert-herrick You are a Tulip seen to-day, But, Dearest, of so short a stay, That where you grew, scarce man can say. You are a lovely July-flower; Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/monologue-charles-baudelaire https://www.stanza.to/poems/monologue-charles-baudelaire You are a lovely autumn sky, rose-clear! But sadness is flowing in me like the sea, And leaves on my sullen lip, as it disappears, of its bitter slime the painful memory. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/sonnet-xciii-anna-seward https://www.stanza.to/poems/sonnet-xciii-anna-seward Yon soft Star, peering o'er the sable cloud, Sheds its [1]green lustre thro' the darksome air. - Haply in that mild Planet's crystal sphere Live the freed Spirits, o'er whose timeless shroud Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/our-indian-summer-oliver-wendell-holmes https://www.stanza.to/poems/our-indian-summer-oliver-wendell-holmes 1856 You 'll believe me, dear boys, 't is a pleasure to rise, With a welcome like this in your darling old eyes; To meet the same smiles and to hear the same tone Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-bumblebee-james-whitcomb-riley https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-bumblebee-james-whitcomb-riley You better not fool with a Bumblebee! - Ef you don't think they can sting - you'll see! They're lazy to look at, an' kindo' go Buzzin' an' bummin' aroun' so slow, Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-curse-of-cromwell-william-butler-yeats https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-curse-of-cromwell-william-butler-yeats You ask what -- I have found, and far and wide I go: Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's mur- derous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/extract-from-a-prologue-written-and-spoken-by-the-author-at-the-opening-of-the-k-thomas-moore https://www.stanza.to/poems/extract-from-a-prologue-written-and-spoken-by-the-author-at-the-opening-of-the-k-thomas-moore Yet, even here, tho' Fiction rules the hour, There shine some genuine smiles, beyond her power; And there are tears, too--tears that Memory sheds Even o'er the feast that mimic fancy spreads, Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/in-hospital-v-operation-william-ernest-henley https://www.stanza.to/poems/in-hospital-v-operation-william-ernest-henley You are carried in a basket, Like a carcase from the shambles, To the theatre, a cockpit Where they stretch you on a table. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/a-safe-investment-john-hartley https://www.stanza.to/poems/a-safe-investment-john-hartley Yo fowk 'at's some brass to invest, Luk sharp an mak th' best ov yor chonce! Aw'll gie yo a tip, - one o'th' best, Whear ther's profit an safety for once. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/a-meditation-for-his-mistress-robert-herrick https://www.stanza.to/poems/a-meditation-for-his-mistress-robert-herrick You are a tulip seen today, But (Dearest) of so short a stay; That where you grew, scarce man can say. You are a lovely July-flower, Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-dunciad-book-iv-alexander-pope https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-dunciad-book-iv-alexander-pope Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night! Of darkness visible so much be lent, As half to show, half veil, the deep intent. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/ecclesiastical-sonnets-part-iii-iv-latitudinarianism-william-wordsworth https://www.stanza.to/poems/ecclesiastical-sonnets-part-iii-iv-latitudinarianism-william-wordsworth Yet Truth is keenly sought for, and the wind Charged with rich words poured out in thought's defense; Whether the Church inspire that eloquence, Or a Platonic Piety confined Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/loch-uisk-isle-of-mull-john-campbell https://www.stanza.to/poems/loch-uisk-isle-of-mull-john-campbell Yon vale among the mountains, So sheltered from the sea, That lake which lies so lonely, Shall tell their tale to thee. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/astrophel-and-stella-sonnet-xcv-philip-sidney-sir https://www.stanza.to/poems/astrophel-and-stella-sonnet-xcv-philip-sidney-sir Yet sighes, deare sighs, indeede true friends you are, That do not leaue your best friend at the wurst, But, as you with my breast I oft haue nurst, So, gratefull now, you waite vpon my care. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-man-of-war-hawk-herman-melville https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-man-of-war-hawk-herman-melville Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light O'er the black ship's white sky-s'l, sunned cloud to the sight, Have we low-flyers wings to ascend to his height? No arrow can reach him; nor thought can attain Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-the-emperor-william-francis-william-lauderdale-adams-1 https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-the-emperor-william-francis-william-lauderdale-adams-1 You are at least a man, of men a king. You have a heart, and with that heart you love. The race you come from is not gendered of The filthy sty whose latest litter cling Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-moral-bully-oliver-wendell-holmes https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-moral-bully-oliver-wendell-holmes Yon whey-faced brother, who delights to wear A weedy flux of ill-conditioned hair, Seems of the sort that in a crowded place One elbows freely into smallest space; Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-lady-and-the-painter-robert-browning https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-lady-and-the-painter-robert-browning She. Yet womanhood you reverence, So you profess! He. With heart and soul. She. Of which fact this is evidence! Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/feelings-of-a-noble-biscayan-at-one-of-those-funerals-william-wordsworth https://www.stanza.to/poems/feelings-of-a-noble-biscayan-at-one-of-those-funerals-william-wordsworth Yet, yet, Biscayans! we must meet our Foes With firmer soul, yet labour to regain Our ancient freedom; else 'twere worse than vain To gather round the bier these festal shows. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-parasol-helen-leah-reed https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-parasol-helen-leah-reed You are the loveliest parasol I ever saw, - and all my own, - What frilly frills! I feel as tall As mother now. Here! take my doll. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/americans-anonymous https://www.stanza.to/poems/americans-anonymous You can always tell the English, You can always tell the Dutch, You can always tell the Yankees - But you can't tell them much! Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/existence-ella-wheeler-wilcox https://www.stanza.to/poems/existence-ella-wheeler-wilcox You are here, and you are wanted, Though a waif upon life's stair; Though the sunlit hours are haunted With the shadowy shapes of care. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/of-three-children-choosing-a-chaplet-of-verse-arthur-thomas-quiller-couch https://www.stanza.to/poems/of-three-children-choosing-a-chaplet-of-verse-arthur-thomas-quiller-couch You and I and Burd so blithe-- Burd so blithe, and you, and I-- The Mower he would whet his scythe Before the dew was dry. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/marshalls-mate-henry-lawson https://www.stanza.to/poems/marshalls-mate-henry-lawson You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn, You could have watched the grass scorch brown had there been grass to burn. In such a drought the strongest heart might well grow faint and weak, 'Twould frighten Satan to his home, not far from Dingo Creek. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-laura-in-death-sonnet-xliii-francesco-petrarca-petrarch https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-laura-in-death-sonnet-xliii-francesco-petrarca-petrarch Quel rosignuol che s' soave piagne. THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE REMINDS HIM OF HIS UNHAPPY LOT. Yon nightingale, whose bursts of thrilling tone, Pour'd in soft sorrow from her tuneful throat, Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-baffled-knight-frank-sidgwick https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-baffled-knight-frank-sidgwick The Text is from Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609), reprinted almost verbatim in Tom Durfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy. The Story was sufficiently popular not only to have been revived, at the end of the seventeenth century, but to have had three other 'Parts' added to it, the whole four afterwards Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/yonder-see-the-morning-blink-alfred-edward-housman https://www.stanza.to/poems/yonder-see-the-morning-blink-alfred-edward-housman Yonder see the morning blink: The sun is up, and up must I, To wash and dress and eat and drink And look at things and talk and think Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-dunciad-book-the-fourth-alexander-pope https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-dunciad-book-the-fourth-alexander-pope ARGUMENT. The poet being, in this book, to declare the completion of the prophecies mentioned at the end of the former, makes a new invocation; as the greater poets are wont, when some high and worthy matter is to be sung. He shows the goddess coming in her majesty to destroy order and science, and Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/that-night-james-whitcomb-riley https://www.stanza.to/poems/that-night-james-whitcomb-riley You and I, and that night, with its perfume and glory! - The scent of the locusts - the light of the moon; And the violin weaving the waltzers a story, Enmeshing their feet in the weft of the tune, Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/sonnet-lxxxix-subject-continued-anna-seward https://www.stanza.to/poems/sonnet-lxxxix-subject-continued-anna-seward Yon late but gleaming Moon, in hoary light Shines out unveil'd, and on the cloud's dark fleece Rests; - but her strengthen'd beams appear to increase The wild disorder of this troubled Night. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/sonnets-from-the-portuguese-x-elizabeth-barrett-browning https://www.stanza.to/poems/sonnets-from-the-portuguese-x-elizabeth-barrett-browning Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright, Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-mrs-houghton-of-bourmont-on-praising-her-husband-to-dr-swift-jonathan-swift https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-mrs-houghton-of-bourmont-on-praising-her-husband-to-dr-swift-jonathan-swift You always are making a god of your spouse; But this neither Reason nor Conscience allows; Perhaps you will say, 'tis in gratitude due, And you adore him, because he adores you. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/moral-john-hartley https://www.stanza.to/poems/moral-john-hartley Yo fowk 'ats tempted to goa buy Be careful what yo do; Dooant be persuaded coss "its cheap," For if yo do yo'll rue; Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/prayer-laurence-hope-adela-florence-cory-nicolson https://www.stanza.to/poems/prayer-laurence-hope-adela-florence-cory-nicolson You are all that is lovely and light, Aziza whom I adore, And, waking, after the night, I am weary with dreams of you. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/in-morte-xliii-emma-lazarus https://www.stanza.to/poems/in-morte-xliii-emma-lazarus Yon nightingale who mourns so plaintively Perchance his fledglings or his darling mate, Fills sky and earth with sweetness, warbling late, Prophetic notes of melting melody. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-a-republican-friend-1848-continued-matthew-arnold https://www.stanza.to/poems/to-a-republican-friend-1848-continued-matthew-arnold Yet, when I muse on what life is, I seem Rather to patience prompted, than that prowl Prospect of hope which France proclaims so loud, France, fam'd in all great arts, in none supreme. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/de-camp-on-de-cheval-gris-william-henry-drummond https://www.stanza.to/poems/de-camp-on-de-cheval-gris-william-henry-drummond You 'member de ole log-camp, Johnnie, up on de Cheval Gris, W'ere we work so hard all winter, long ago you an' me? Dere was fourteen man on de gang, den, all from our own paroisse, An' only wan lef' dem feller is ourse'f an' Pierre Laframboise. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/yon-wild-mossy-mountains-robert-burns https://www.stanza.to/poems/yon-wild-mossy-mountains-robert-burns Tune - "Yon wild mossy mountains." I. Yon wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide, That nurse in their bosom the youth o' the Clyde, Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/power-emily-elizabeth-dickinson https://www.stanza.to/poems/power-emily-elizabeth-dickinson You cannot put a fire out; A thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a fan Upon the slowest night. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-homing-bee-emily-pauline-johnson https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-homing-bee-emily-pauline-johnson You are belted with gold, little brother of mine, Yellow gold, like the sun That spills in the west, as a chalice of wine When feasting is done. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-armenian-ladys-love-william-wordsworth https://www.stanza.to/poems/the-armenian-ladys-love-william-wordsworth I You have heard "a Spanish Lady How she wooed an English man;" Hear now of a fair Armenian, Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT https://www.stanza.to/poems/welcome-home-nora-pembroke-margaret-moran-dixon-mcdougall https://www.stanza.to/poems/welcome-home-nora-pembroke-margaret-moran-dixon-mcdougall You are coming home with the breath of spring Flying home to a love-lined nest, Most loving care hath made it fair Your hands will do the rest Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:40:17 GMT