No Letters From Home! (Henry Clay Work Poems)
A stranger lies ill, in a distant city,With no - - letters from home!The glances that meet him, in lieu ...
Poems about debtors (21 Poems)
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
The Borough. Letter XXIII: Prisons (George Crabbe Poems)
'TIS well--that Man to all the varying statesOf good and ill his mind accommodates;He not alone progressive grief sustains,But soon ...
The Midnight Messenger. or A Sudden Call From An Earthly Glory To The Cold Grave. (Anonymous British Poems)
DeathThou wealthy man of large possessions here,Amounting to some thousand pounds a year,Extorted by oppression from the poor,The time is ...
Villon (Basil Bunting Poems)
I He whom we anatomized 'whose words we gathered as pleasant flowers and thought on his wit and how neatly ...
Beranger’s “Broken Fiddle” (Eugene Field Poems)
IThere, there, poor dog, my faithful friend, Pay you no heed unto my sorrow:But feast to-day while yet you may,— ...
Old Town Types No 20 – Mr Blades the Butcher (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Blades, the butcher, was a large and beefy man,"Best him at a cattle deal," 'twas said, "no other can.' ...
Eternal Friendship (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Who once has had a friend has foundThe link 'twixt mortal and divine; Though now he sleeps in hallowed ground,He ...
A Kafi (Bishnu Dey Poems)
Forests, trees, rocks and hills give me joy that my mind yearns for. Each tree in the village speaks to ...
On the Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies (Edmund Waller Poems)
Tell me, lovely, loving pair!Why so kind, and so severe?Why so careless of our care,Only to yourselves so dear? By ...
Gordon (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
The Unrequitable. GONE, with the toil of nigh twelve months undone, Cut from thy grasp by sloth and treachery, When ...
Hymn XI: God, the Offended God Most High (Charles Wesley Poems)
God, the offended God most high,Ambassadors to rebels sends;His messengers his place supply,And Jesus begs us to be friends. Us, ...
Mesopotamia (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1917 They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave: But the ...
90. Epistle to James Smith (Robert Burns Poem)
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
A BALLAD (THESIS FOR A DOCTOR’S DEGREE) (Andrei Voznesensky Poems)
My doc announced yesterday : "You may have talent, though it's hidden, your beak, however, is frost-bitten, so stick at ...
The Princess (part 2) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...
On The Death Of The Right Honourable The Lord Viscount Bayning (William Strode Poems)
Though after Death, Thanks lessen into Praise, And Worthies be not crown'd with gold, but bayes; Shall we not thank? ...
The Valley of the Shadow (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
General Gordon, the Hero of Khartoum (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! now o'er the civilised world there hangs a gloom For brave General Gordon, that was killed in Khartoum, He ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...