The dragon's lair

A personal collection of verse

The Beauty you seek is inside of you. — Rumi

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A Ditty
Sir Philip Sydney
A Dream Within A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe
A Farewell To Secretary Shuyun At The Xietiao Villa In Xuanzhou
Li Bai
A Girl of Jiangnan
Choi Chi-won
A Licentious Person
John Donne
A Line-Storm Song
Robert Frost
A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing
Alexander Pope
A Patch of Old Snow
Robert Frost
A Poison Tree
William Blake
A Reply
Sara Teasdale
A Watchman
Shamik Banerjee
Ah, What Have I Done
Hwang Jini
All You Who Sleep Tonight
Vikram Seth
Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been
William Wordsworth
And You As Well Must Die, Belovèd Dust
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Astrophel and Stella — 2
Sir Philip Sydney
Astrophel and Stella — 39
Sir Philip Sydney
Astrophel and Stella — 45
Sir Philip Sydney
Astrophel and Stella — 47
Sir Philip Sydney
Astrophel and Stella — 50
Sir Philip Sydney
Astrophel and Stella — 59
Sir Philip Sydney
Astrophel and Stella — 70
Sir Philip Sydney
Astrophel and Stella — 74
Sir Philip Sydney
Astrophel and Stella — 89
Sir Philip Sydney
Astrophel and Stella — 92
Sir Philip Sydney
At Some Thoughts
Kang Gangwol
Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
Azaleas
Kim So-wol
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend (57)
William Shakespeare
Blue Song
Tennessee Williams
Building a Cottage
Jung Po
Burial
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Burial songs: 1
Tao Qian
Clown in the Moon
Dylan Thomas
Daisy
Chen Min-hwa
Declaration
Bei Dao
Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws (19)
William Shakespeare
Down by the Salley Gardens
W.B. Yeats
Drowning Is Not So Pitiful
Emily Dickinson
Dust If You Must
Rose Milligan
Elegy Before Death
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Elizabeth
Edgar Allan Poe
Epigram
Kim Sat Gat
Epipsychidion
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Epitaph on the World
Henry David Thoreau
Even in Kyoto
Bashō
Expostulation and Reply
William Wordsworth
Fancy
John Keats
Finding Contentment
Lee Gyeongbo
First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Ode on the Red Cliffs
Su Shi
First poem
Yun Dong-Ju
For Annie
Edgar Allan Poe
Form
Tao Qian
From The Garden of Proserpine
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Gazing at a Waterfall on Mount Lu
Li Bai
Gitanjali 13
Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali 2
Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali 25
Rabindranath Tagore
God's World
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Goe and catche a falling starre
John Donne
Grown-Up
Edna St. Vincent Millay
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W.B. Yeats
Here Is a Wound That Never Will Heal, I Know
Edna St. Vincent Millay
How Heavy Do I Journey On The Way (50)
William Shakespeare
How Oft When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st (128)
William Shakespeare
Hymn
Edgar Allan Poe
I Arise from Dreams of Thee
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I Could Give All To Time
Robert Frost
I Had No Time to Hate
Emily Dickinson
I Have Named You Queen
Pablo Neruda
I Know the Stars
Sara Teasdale
I like you, bamboo
Kim Kwang-Wuk
I Measure Every Grief I Meet
Emily Dickinson
I Pray You If You Love Me, Bear My Joy
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I'm Nobody! Who are You?
Emily Dickinson
If I Were Fire
Cecco Angiolieri
In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound
In an Artist’s Studio
Christina Rossetti
In Faith, I Do Not Love Thee with Mine Eyes (141)
William Shakespeare
In the Ancient Style
Lee Je-hyeon
Indeed, Indeed I Cannot Tell
Henry David Thoreau
Interior Portrait
Rainer Maria Rilke
Invictus
William Ernest Henley
Is Heaven a Physician?
Emily Dickinson
Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open (61)
William Shakespeare
It Makes No Difference Abroad
Emily Dickinson
Jiangchengzi
Su Shi
Juan’s Song
Louise Bogan
Lament on an Autumn Evening
Lee Seung-in
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (116)
William Shakespeare
Life of My Life
Torquato Tasso
Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree
William Wordsworth
Liu Ch'e
Ezra Pound
Long time a child
Hartley Coleridge
Love's Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Maiden Name
Philip Larkin
Meditatio
Ezra Pound
Men Say They Know Many Things
Henry David Thoreau
Midnight Oil
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Midwinter Night
Hwang Jini
Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni (excerpt)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nature Is What We See
Emily Dickinson
No Better Love
Rumi
No One Has Seen Your Face, and Yet
Hafez
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
On a Cat, Ageing
Alexander Gray
On Ouyang Xiu
Chen Hwa
On the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria
Oscar Wilde
On the Snow
Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Once by the Pacific
Robert Frost
Oread
H.D.
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Papa Above
Emily Dickinson
Passer Mortuus Est
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Portrait of the Artist
Dorothy Parker
Poverty
Kim Sat Gat
Prerequisites for a Trendy Poetry Reading
Joseph S. Salemi
Pursuit
H.D.
Quiet Night Thoughts
Li Bai
Rain in my Heart
Edgar Lee Masters
Reflections on Life's Transience
Byeon Gyellyang
Régime de Vivre
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Rubai 1498
Rumi
Scene of Snow
Kim Sat Gat
Self-Condolence for Wife's Death
Kim Sat Gat
Shadow
Tao Qian
She Sights a Bird
Emily Dickinson
She Walks in Beauty
Lord Byron
Shipwreck
Luís de Camões
since feeling is first
e.e. cummings
Since I Cannot Persuade You
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Snow
Yun Dong-Ju
Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Song
William Wordsworth
Song of Apollo
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song of Myself (6)
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself (8)
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself (9)
Walt Whitman
Sonnet 2
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 20
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 30
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 34
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 36
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 41
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 43
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 47
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 6
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 7
Edmund Spenser
Spirit
Tao Qian
Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Strange Fits of Passion
William Wordsworth
Summer Has Two Beginnings
Emily Dickinson
Sympathy
Emily Brontë
Tagus
Luís de Camões
Tears
Luís de Camões
Tell all the truth but tell it slant
Emily Dickinson
The Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Answer
Bei Dao
The Banks o’ Doon
Robert Burns
The Book of the World
William Drummond of Hawthornden
The Cloud
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Dramatists
Dorothy Parker
The Fountain
William Wordsworth
The Friend Who Said 'I'
Rumi
The Ingler
John Donne
The More Loving One
W.H. Auden
The Mountains—Grow Unnoticed
Emily Dickinson
The Naming of Cats
T.S. Eliot
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The Solitary
Sara Teasdale
The Soote Season
Henry Howard
The Stolen Child
W.B. Yeats
The Story of Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Parker
The Sun Rising
John Donne
The Thirtieth Day of the First Month: A Letter to Yatang and Ujae
Yun Sojong
The Tyger
William Blake
The Unknown Citizen
W.H. Auden
The View From Halfway Down
Alison Tafel
This Be The Verse
Philip Larkin
This is my letter to the World
Emily Dickinson
Thunderstorms
William Henry Davies
Time Does Not Bring Relief
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time, That Renews the Tissues of This Frame
Edna St. Vincent Millay
To a goose
Robert Southey
To a Loose Woman
Sara Teasdale
To the Not Impossible Him
Edna St. Vincent Millay
To the River
Edgar Allan Poe
To the tune “Prelude to Water Melody”
Su Shi
Travel
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Unfortunate Coincidence
Dorothy Parker
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Cecco Angiolieri
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Cecco Angiolieri
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Cecco Angiolieri
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Cecco Angiolieri
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Cecco Angiolieri
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Cecco Angiolieri
Wail
Dorothy Parker
Waiting
William Ernest Henley
We Have Not Long to Love
Tennessee Williams
What is so amusing about the rain falling
King Hyo-Jong
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What's This of Death, From You Who Never Will Die?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
When Earth’s Last Picture is Painted
Rudyard Kipling
When I Read the Book
Walt Whitman
When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face
Edna St. Vincent Millay
When You Are Old
W.B. Yeats
When You, That at This Moment Are to Me
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where My Books Go
W.B. Yeats
Where Ships of Purple Gently Toss
Emily Dickinson
Who Will Believe My Verse
William Shakespeare
Why Is My Verse So Barren of New Pride (76)
William Shakespeare
Wine Stop
Tao Qian
Wings of a Dove
Henry van Dyke Jr.
Wires
Philip Larkin
Woman’s Constancy
John Donne
Yes! Full Surely 'Twas the Echo
William Wordsworth
You Are Tired
e.e. cummings
You Who Never Arrived
Rainer Maria Rilke
Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
Li Bai