Ideal
27 poems
Perfect beauty, absolute love, a better world: poems about the ideal and the distance that keeps us from it.
Let Daintie wittes
Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophil and Stella
A Ballad of the Two Knights
Sara Teasdale
Anne Rutledge
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology
Appolo's song
John Lyly
Battle Sleep
Edith Wharton
Content
Stephen Crane
Elizabeth Of Bohemia
Henry Wotton
Enigma
Edgar Allan Poe
George Washington
James Russell Lowell
Harry Carey Goodhue
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology
I saw a man pursuing the horizon
Stephen Crane
Life
Edith Wharton
Most Sweet it is
William Wordsworth
Oak Hill
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Ode
Philip Freneau
On Retirement
Philip Freneau
Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong
Henry David Thoreau
Prologue To A Comedy
Philip Freneau
Rumors From An Aeolian Harp
Henry David Thoreau
She Who Is To Come
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sonnet 53
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet XLIII
George Santayana
The lady's Dressing Room
Jonathan Swift
Venus Transiens
Amy Lowell
What Kind of Mistress He would Have
Robert Herrick
Which Is True?
Charles Baudelaire
Petits Poèmes en prose
XXVI - I lived with visions for my company
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese