Contrast
94 poems
Light and shadow, fire and ice: poems built on contrast to make meaning spark. Read them on Loëly.
A Blind Child
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
A Bride
Dollie Radford
A Character
William Wordsworth
A Day
John Greenleaf Whittier
A Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Wallace Stevens
A Door just opened on a street -
Emily Dickinson
A Fleeting Passion
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
A friend in need
Dora Sigerson Shorter
A Song of Opposites
John Keats
A Weeping Cupid
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Anacreontic by a Footman
Thomas Hood
As In The Midst Of Battle There Is Room
George Santayana
Autumn
Mary Webb
Canto III - Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
City Visions
Emma Lazarus
Destiny
Emma Lazarus
Evening star
Edgar Allan Poe
Evening Twilight
Charles Baudelaire
Petits Poèmes en prose
Faces
Khalil Gibran
Famine Song
Adela Florence Nicolson
Flame-Heart
Claude McKay
Golden Silences
Christina Rossetti
High Summer On The Mountains
Idris Davies
Home
Anne Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
I Care Not for These Ladies
Thomas Campion
I would I might forget that I am I
George Santayana
III - Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart !
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
In Bondage
Claude McKay
IV - Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
June 1915
Charlotte Mew
Love and friendship
Emily Brontë
Love's Witness
Aphra Behn
May
Sara Teasdale
Medley — A Kashmeri Song
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time
Now
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
On Easter Day
Oscar Wilde
On The Lady Manchester
Joseph Addison
On The Porch
Harriet Monroe
On the Steps of the Temple
Khalil Gibran
Only
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Opal
Amy Lowell
Parting At Morning
Robert Browning
Past days
Anne Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Preference
Charlotte Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Rain on a Grave
Thomas Hardy
Rich or Poor
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
She walks in Beauty
George Gordon Byron
Song
Rupert Brooke
Sonnet – The Peasant
Mary Robinson
Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 43 - O dearest eyes the lights
Mary Wroth
Sonnet 68
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 9 - Be you all pleased?
Mary Wroth
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Sonnet IV
Anna Seward
Sonnet LVII
Anna Seward
Sonnet Reversed
Rupert Brooke
Sonnet XCIX
Anna Seward
Sonnet XI
Anna Seward
Sonnet XLII
Anna Seward
Sonnet XLVIII
Anna Seward