An Expostulation (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Against too many writers of science fiction Why did you lure us on like this, Light-year on light-year, through the ...
Poems about empires (31 Poems)
The Dark and the Fair (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
A roaring company that festive night; The beast of dialectic dragged his chains, Prowling from chair to chair is the ...
The Burial (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1904(C. F. Rhodes, buried in the Matoppos, April 10, 1902) When that great Kings return to clay, Or Emperors in ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
A Poet’s Voice XV (Khalil Gibran Poems)
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
Plutonian Ode (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
Five A.M. (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Elan that lifts me above the clouds into pure space, timeless, yea eternal Breath transmuted into words Transmuted back to ...
For Peace in the Maghreb – v2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A prayer for peace for the taste of true freedom for peace in the Maghreb for all its neighbors for ...
For Peace in the Maghreb (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A prayer for peace for true freedom for peace in the Maghreb for all its neighbors for the whole region ...
How Much We Need God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
If only, in this season Advent coming, that we would remember that we would truly understand that we would truly ...
Becoming Proud (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
"Becoming Proud" so true of our lives, our society our abundance, our wealth as if all of these were ours ...
The Human Tree (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Many have Earth's lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: Yea, the ...
Gregory Corso (Gregory Corso Poem)
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The Missionary (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
Epistle To Augusta (Lord Byron Poem)
My sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine; Mountains and seas divide ...
103. To Ruin (Robert Burns Poems)
ALL hail! inexorable lord! At whose destruction-breathing word, The mightiest empires fall! Thy cruel, woe-delighted train, The ministers of grief ...
386. The Rights of Women-Spoken by Miss Fontenelle (Robert Burns Poems)
WHILE Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings; While quacks of ...
Hooray Say The Roses (Charles Bukowski Poems)
hooray say the roses, today is blamesday and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wednesday ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...
Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
SHALT thou be conquered of a human fate My liege, my lover, whose imperial head Hath never bent in sorrow ...
Tamerlane (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme- I will not madly deem that power ...
To His Coy Mistress (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
On Reading Omar Khayyam (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
In the midst of the battle I turned, (For the thunders could flourish ...
The Supreme Sacrifice (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Well-nigh two thousand years hath Israel Suffered the scorn of man for love of God; Endured the outlaw's ban, the ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...