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Love in a hut, with water and a crust,Is—Love, forgive us!—cinders, ashes, dust;Love in a palace is perhaps at lastMore grievous torment than a..

Glory and loveliness have pass'd away;For if we wander out in early morn,No wreathed incense do we see upborneInto the east, to meet the smiling..

What though while the wonders of nature exploring,I cannot your light, mazy footsteps attend;Nor listen to accents, that almost adoring,Bless..

Riddle: You want to send a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is more than large enough to contain the object. You have several locks..

Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,Sat gray-hair'd Saturn..

Riddle: My voice rises above the din, sometimes catching all unaware. I never ask questions, yet get many answers. What am I?Answer: A doorbell.

1.In thy western halls of goldWhen thou sittest in thy state,Bards, that erst sublimely toldHeroic deeds, and sang of fate,With fervour seize their..

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..

Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speakDefinitively of these mighty things;Forgive me, that I have not eagle's wings,That what I want I know not where..

Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed,There came before my eyes that wonted threadOf shapes, and shadows, and remembrances,That every other..

O soft embalmer of the still midnight!Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light,Enshaded in..

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keepA bower quiet for us, and a..

Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance!In what diviner moments of the dayArt thou most lovely?—when gone far astrayInto the labyrinths of..

When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,Before high piled books, in charactry,Hold like rich garners the..

O SORROW!   Why dost borrow   The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?--   To give maiden blushes   To the white rose bushes?   Or is it thy..

As I lay in my bed slepe full unmeteWas unto me, but why that I ne mightRest I ne wist, for there n'as erthly wight[As I suppose] had more of hertis..

As Hermes once took to his feathers lightWhen lulled Argus, baffled, swoon'd and slept,So on a Delphic reed my idle sprightSo play'd, so charm'd, so..

'Under the flagOf each his faction, they to battle bringTheir embryo atoms.' ~ Milton.Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow,Lethe's weed and Hermes'..

Riddle: Lauren and Alice are talking long distance on the phone. Lauren is in an East-Coast US state which borders the Atlantic Ocean, and Alice is..

I.He is to weet a melancholy carle:Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hairAs hath the seeded thistle when in parleIt holds the Zephyr, ere it..

I had a dove, and the sweet dove died;And I have thought it died of grieving:O, what could it grieve for? its feet were tiedWith a single thread of..

Fresh morning gusts have blown away all fearFrom my glad bosom,—now from gloominessI mount for ever—not an atom lessThan the proud laurel shall..

Upon a time, before the faery broodsDrove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods,Before King Oberon's bright diadem,Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd..

Riddle: I am a perching barrel, filled with meat, Taking hits from leaps and dives. Look inside, but do not eat, The meat in there is still alive!..

Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?Answer: A Penny.