Skip to content
ReadingWillow structured literacy program for Australian students
Poetry Library

— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

…

Read full poem →

adjective

Engaged in or ready for action; characterized by energetic work, thought, or speech.

“The students were very active in class discussions, asking many thoughtful questions.”

Know more →

THE KISS

15 lines
Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
✦
hat smouldering senses in death's sick delayOr seizure of malign vicissitudeCan rob this body of honour, or denudeThis soul of wedding-raiment worn to-day?For lo! even now my lady's lips did playWith these my lips such consonant interludeAs laurelled Orpheus longed for when he wooedThe half-drawn hungering face with that last lay. I was a child beneath her touch,--a manWhen breast to breast we clung, even I and she,--A spirit when her spirit looked through me,--A god when all our life-breath met to fanOur life-blood, till love's emulous ardours ran,Fire within fire, desire in deity.* *[sic]
✦