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Henry John Newbolt: Drake he's in...

Henry John Newbolt: Drake he's in...

Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come.
(Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?)
Slung atween the...

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Rupert Brooke: Now, God be...

Rupert Brooke: Now, God be...

Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour,
And caught our youth, and wakened us from...

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Ogden Nash: If called by...

Ogden Nash: If called by...

If called by a panther,
don't anther.


Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever...

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Ogden Nash: The cow is...

Ogden Nash: The cow is...

The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.


Source: The...

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John Webster: I saw him...

John Webster: I saw him...

I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen.

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Samuel Beckett: To find a...

Samuel Beckett: To find a...

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

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Oscar Wilde: Formerly we used...

Oscar Wilde: Formerly we used...

Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may...

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Novalis: Only as far...

Novalis: Only as far...

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: How fares it...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: How fares it...

How fares it with the happy dead?

Source: In Memoriam, 44 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Oscar Wilde: The vilest deeds...

Oscar Wilde: The vilest deeds...

The vilest deeds like poison-weeds
Bloom well in prison-air;
It is only what is good in Man
That wastes and...

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Samuel Beckett: There's man all...

Samuel Beckett: There's man all...

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Source:...

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Joyce Kilmer: For nothing keeps...

Joyce Kilmer: For nothing keeps...

For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable...

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Cecil Frances Alexander: Once in royal...

Cecil Frances Alexander: Once in royal...

Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a Mother laid her Baby
In a manger for His...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give...

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John Ashbery: I don't look...

John Ashbery: I don't look...

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a...

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Robert Bridges: When first we...

Robert Bridges: When first we...

When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.


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Ogden Nash: I think that...

Ogden Nash: I think that...

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps unless the billboards fall,
I'll never...

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Vachel Lindsay: To live in...

Vachel Lindsay: To live in...

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say...

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George Moses Horton: My genius from...

George Moses Horton: My genius from...

My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power...

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