Metaphysics
73 poems
What is being, time, infinity? Metaphysical poems that ask the big questions. Read them on Loëly.
In Power's Studio, Florence
James Henry
Poematia
No coward soul is mine
Emily Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
"Anywhere out of the World"
Charles Baudelaire
Petits Poèmes en prose
4. - I loved you first
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
According to the Mighty Working
Thomas Hardy
Aeropagus
Edith Wharton
Alive
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Amends To Nature
Arthur Symons
At Melville's Tomb
Hart Crane
Book I
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Brahma
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cape Cod
George Santayana
Continual Conversation With A Silent Man
Wallace Stevens
Emblems Of Love
Lascelles Abercrombie
Epistle II
Alexander Pope
Essay on Man
Eternal Me
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Experience
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facing West From California's Shores
Walt Whitman
Fafaia
Rupert Brooke
Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour
Wallace Stevens
Flower in the Crannied Wall
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fragment
Thomas Hardy
Hap
Thomas Hardy
Haschisch
Arthur Symons
Haunted Houses
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hellas
Oscar Wilde
Hereafter
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Heritage
Claude McKay
I am the world
Dora Sigerson Shorter
I was in the darkness
Stephen Crane
I Was Made Erect And Lone
Henry David Thoreau
I would I might forget that I am I
George Santayana
Invocation - Answer me, burning stars of night!
Felicia Hemans
Legend
Hart Crane
Life
Edith Wharton
Like A Soul
Henry David Thoreau
Limits
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Loss and gain
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Love
James Russell Lowell
Mutability
Rupert Brooke
My Friend
Khalil Gibran
Negative love.
John Donne
Not For That City
Charlotte Mew
Nothing New
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ode to Heaven
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Of Crime and Punishment
Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
Of Mere Being
Wallace Stevens
On Talking
Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
Philip Freneau
On Time
Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
Our Thrones Decay
George William Russel
Plato to Theon
Philip Freneau
Prayer - I
George Herbert
Premonition
George Santayana
Rumors From An Aeolian Harp
Henry David Thoreau
Silence
Edgar Allan Poe
Sonnet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet V. The South Seas
Rupert Brooke
Sonnet XI – O ! Reason !
Mary Robinson
Sonnets: From the Series Relating to Edgar Allan Poe
Sarah Helen Whitman