Description
67 poems
A place, an object, a face described with precision: descriptive poems that teach you to see. Read them on Loëly.
For A Grotto
Mark Akenside
A description of the Morning
Jonathan Swift
A Hawthorn Berry
Mary Webb
A Maiden and her hair
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
A Rainy Day
Mary Webb
A Summer Day
Mary Webb
April
Dollie Radford
Arabesque
Emma Lazarus
Ballades III - Of Blue China
Andrew Lang
Bangle-sellers
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time
Book II - As on some mountain, through the lofty grove
Homère
L'iliade
Book II - The phantom said; then vanished from his sight
Homère
L'iliade
Book III - Ajax the great, the beauteous queen replied
Homère
L'iliade
Book III - Approach, my child, and grace thy father's side
Homère
L'iliade
Book V - While he was thus in two minds a wave caught him
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book VI - When they reached the water side they went to the washing cisterns
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XIV - Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XIX - Then the old woman took the cauldron
Homère
L'Odyssée
Chartres
Edith Wharton
Clouds
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Colour Studies (At Dieppe)
Arthur Symons
Contemplations
Anne Bradstreet
Dasahara
Kashiprasad Ghosh
Description of an author's bed-Chamber
Oliver Goldsmith
Fragment
Christopher Marlowe
Green Rain
Mary Webb
Harlem Shadows
Claude McKay
Impression - Le Reveillon
Oscar Wilde
In Dark Weather
Mary Webb
In Romney Marsh
John Davidson
London
John Davidson
LXXXVI
Anna Seward
Misgivings
Herman Melville
Mist
Henry David Thoreau
NIGHTFALL IN THE CITY OF HYDERABAD
Sarojini Naidu
The golden threshold
No Buyers
Thomas Hardy
On A Piece Of Tapestry
George Santayana
On The Ruins of a Country Inn
Philip Freneau
On the Steps of the Temple
Khalil Gibran
Poem
William Soutar
Poems of India - Cherry blossom at Dagshai
Violet Jacob
Verses
Poems of India - Evening in the Opium Fields
Violet Jacob
Verses
Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong
Henry David Thoreau
Rich Days
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Snow
John Davidson
Songs of my City: In the Bazaars of Hyderabad
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time
Spring
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time
Summer Wind
William Cullen Bryant
Symphony In Yellow
Oscar Wilde
The Andante Of Snakes
Arthur Symons
The Army Of The Sidhe
Isabella Augusta Gregory
The Berg (A Dream)
Herman Melville
The Brook
Edward Thomas
The College Colonel
Herman Melville
The East in Gold
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
The Fairy Thorn
Samuel Ferguson
The Harlem Dancer
Claude McKay
THE INDIAN GIPSY
Sarojini Naidu
The golden threshold
the Java Jungle
Unknown
The Seven Heavens
Isabella Augusta Gregory