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

— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

Read full poem →

noun

(usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

“Writers often choose accommodation when discussing complex ideas.”

Know more →

MICHAEL ROBARTES ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS

24 lines
W.B. Yeats·1865–1939·Symbolism
✦
f this importunate heart trouble your peaceWith words lighter than air,Or hopes that in mere hoping flicker and cease;Crumple the rose in your hair;And cover your lips with odorous twilight and say,'O Hearts of wind-blown flame!'O Winds, elder than changing of night and day,'That murmuring and longing came,'From marble cities loud with tabors of old'In dove-gray faery lands;'From battle banners fold upon purple fold,'Queens wrought with glimmering hands;'That saw young Niamh hover with love-lorn face'Above the wandering tide;'And lingered in the hidden desolate place,'Where the last Phoenix died'And wrapped the flames above his holy head;'And still murmur and long:'O Piteous Hearts, changing till change be dead'In a tumultuous song:'And cover the pale blossoms of your breastWith your dim heavy hair,And trouble with a sigh for all things longing for restThe odorous twilight there.
✦