Two Travellers in the Place Vendome (Amy Lowell Poem)
Reign of Louis Philippe A great tall column spearing at the sky With a little man on top. Goodness! Tell ...
Poems about battles (29 Poems)
The Great Black Heron (Denise Levertov Poem)
Since I stroll in the woods more often than on this frequented path, it's usually trees I observe; but among ...
The Teams (Henry Lawson Poem)
A cloud of dust on the long white road, And the teams go creeping on Inch by inch with the ...
Stars (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For the Rev. James J. Daly, S. J.) Bright stars, yellow stars, flashing through the air, Are you errant strands ...
Snarleyow (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps Which is first among the women an' amazin' first ...
The Dead King (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(EDWARD VII.) 1910 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? ...
Cruisers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
Brother Jonathan’s Lament (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
SHE has gone,-- she has left us in passion and pride,-- Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She ...
the wounded angel (Rg Gregory Poem)
(from a painting by hugo simberg) those who bear the wounded angel are they honoured or destroyed far beyond their ...
An Apology for my fearfull temper (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Tis true of courage I'm no mistress No Boadicia nor Thalestriss Nor shall I e'er be famed hereafter For such ...
The Battle of Hastings (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
Alexander’s Feast; Or, The Power Of Music (John Dryden Poems)
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
Heroic Stanzas (John Dryden Poem)
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
Water, is taught by thirst. (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Water, is taught by thirst. Land -- by the Oceans passed. Transport -- by throe -- Peace -- by its ...
Partisanship and politics (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
Out of The Annexe (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It grew out of the Annexe and our Corps in a world at peace while our army trained, magnificent in ...
The Towers of Time (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Victor (C.W. Longenecker Poem)
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t If you like to ...
The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) (Alexander Pope Poems)
He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part; At home he ...
Song of the Bowmen of Shu (Ezra Pound Poems)
Here we are, picking the first fern-shoots And saying: When shall we get back to our country? Here we are ...
An Indian Love Song (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
He Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy glory and grace, Withhold not, O love, from ...
An Ode in Time of Hesitation (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the ...
Lord Robert’s Triumphal Entry into Pretoria (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1900, and on the 5th of June, Lord Roberts entered Pretoria in the afternoon; His ...
Scotland 1941 (Edwin Muir Poems)
We were a tribe, a family, a people. Wallace and Bruce guard now a painted field, And all may read ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Child of Europe (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
1 We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day. Who in May admire trees flowering Are better than those ...
The Tale of the Tiger-Tree (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...