Negro Spirituals (Anonymous Americas Poems)
"IN DAT GREAT GITTIN'-UP MORNIN'I 'M a gwine to tell you bout de comin' ob de Saviour,- Fare you well, ...
Poems about bibles (21 Poems)
The March (C J Dennis Poems)
In early, prehistoric days, before the reign of Man,When neolithic Nature fashioned things upon a planThat was large as it ...
Wake, Irishmen, Wake (Carolina Oliphant Poems)
Air — "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning."Wake, Irishman, wake, let your slumbers be over,Our children will look to our ...
An Hour Later (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Not since the time the sense of evilCaught our first parents by surprise,While eating fruit in Paradise,One fateful morning, had ...
You Picked Up The Planet (Eeva-Liisa Manner Poems)
To Erik LindegrenYou picked up the planet like an eggand set it spinningin slow motion on the floor of the ...
Sinne (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Parents first season us: then schoolmasters Deliver us to ...
History (Robert Lowell Poem)
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had-- it is so dull ...
Sin (George Herbert Poem)
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws;-they send ...
In our Worship, these words (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In our worship, within the sanctuary entering in to a time of grace the words of our scripture the canon ...
Did You Hear Them (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Four second-graders, each reading, in unison A message for themselves, for the congregation reminder of the ancient truth, the power ...
Words to Live By (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We sat with rapt attention to the sheet on the table, our bibles open to the passage, the instruction, admonition ...
The Secret People (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
On Rabbi Kook’s Street (Yehuda Amichai Poems)
On Rabbi Kook's Street I walk without this good man-- A streiml he wore for prayer A silk top hat ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
With Antecedents. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages; With all which, had it not ...
Carol of Occupations. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
Passage to India. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
A Disqualified Jockey’s Story (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
You see, the thing was this way -- there was me, That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare, And Ikey Chambers ...