The Blessed (English Translation) (Gertrud Kolmar Poems)
I am in the darkness and alone.In front of me stands the door.When I open it, I am bathed in ...
Poems about courteously (21 Poems)
“Deep in thoughts of love, I came” (Guido Cavalcanti Poems)
Deep in thoughts of love, I cameOn two young maids,One sang: 'It rainsOn us, the joy of love.'Their faces were ...
Sir Pavon And St. Pavon (E Foxton Poems)
Part 1. St. Mark's hushed abbey heardThrough prayers a roar and din;A brawling voice did shout, "Knave shaveling, let me ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Twelfth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
Pelleas And Ettarre (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gapLeft by the Holy Quest; and as he satIn hall at old ...
Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Barber (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
I stand this way on cloudy winter daysFrom dawn to dusk and I soap heads,Shave them and powder them and ...
Not A Word! (or Unconditional Surrender) (A P Herbert Poems)
Why should we tell the HunWhat happens when we've won?You do not tell the snakeWhat form his death will take,Or ...
R-US-AF (A P Herbert Poems)
Like Sun and Moon, they share the skyBut courteously divide the day;No matter what the clocks may cryBe sure that ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Isabella or The Pot of Basil (John Keats Poem)
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
Go Seek Her Out (James Joyce Poem)
Go seek her out all courteously, And say I come, Wind of spices whose song is ever Epithalamium. O, hurry ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Blood Feud (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Once, when my husband was a child, there came To his father's table, one who called him kin, In sunbleached ...
Starting from Paumanok. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
Pelleas And Ettarre (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
The Princess (part 5) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
Pullman Porter (Robert William Service Poems)
The porter in the Pullman car Was charming, as they sometimes are. He scanned my baggage tags: "Are you The ...
The Maori’s Wool (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The Maoris are a mighty race -- the finest ever known; Before the missionaries came they worshipped wood and stone; ...