Honours — Part II. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
As one who, journeying, checks the rein in haste Because a chasm doth yawn across his wayToo wide for leaping, and ...
Poems about endangered (21 Poems)
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 06 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
LXXIAurora bright her crystal gates unbarred,And bridegroom-like forth stept the glorious sun,When trumpets loud and clarions shrill were heard,And every ...
A cry from an indian wife (Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poems)
My forest brave, my Red-skin love, farewell;We may not meet to-morrow; who can tellWhat mighty ills befall our little band,Or ...
A Legal Mouse (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
A lawyer had a legal mouse,A naughty one they say,That took possession of his houseAnd papers ev'ry day,His books and ...
The Truth Suppressed (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Why do people sit in darkness as regards the Negro race?Why so ignorant are nations of conditions in the case?'Tis ...
The Next War (Osbert Sitwell Poems)
The long war had ended.Its miseries had grown faded.Deaf men became difficult to talk to,Heroes became bores.Those alchemistsWho had converted ...
Time Of The Missile (George Oppen Poems)
I remember a square of New York's Hudson River glinting between warehouses.Difficult to approach the water below the pierSwirling, covered ...
Inflection (Christina Pugh Poems)
They are white planets in a galaxy, these wheelsof cheese-before the fungi knobble the skin, cobblesome resistance in the rind. ...
The Song (Jones Very Poems)
When I would sing of crooked streams and fields,On, on from me they stretch too far and wide,And at their ...
The Kalevala – Rune XIX (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ILMARINEN'S WOOING.ILMARINEN, hero-blacksmith,The eternal metal-worker,Hastens forward to the court-roomOf the hostess of Pohyola,Of the master of the Northland,Hastens through the ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXX (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE FROST-FIEND.Lemminkainen, reckless minstrel,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,Hastens as the dawn is breaking,At the dawning of the morning,To the resting-place of vessels,To ...
The Old Leaven (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
A DialogueMark:So, Maurice, you sail to-morrow, you say? And you may or may not return?Be sociable, man! for once in ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXVIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE MOTHER'S COUNSEL.Ahti, hero of the Islands,Wild magician, Lemminkainen,Also known as Kaukomieli,Hastened from the great carousal,From the banquet-halls of Louhi,From ...
A Business Deal (George Ade Poems)
An ancient joker, grizzled and half-bald,With the outward seeming and the attireOf a devout deacon, and yet possessingThe frolicsome nature ...
Salmon (Jorie Graham Poem)
I watched them once, at dusk, on television, run, in our motel room half-way through Nebraska, quick, glittering, past beauty, ...
Ekka (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The Ekka institution bares us all, though call it Exhibition, Royal Queensland Show, it's that time of year when you ...
Millenial Hymn to Lord Shiva (Kathleen Raine Poems)
Earth no longer hymns the Creator, the seven days of wonder, the Garden is over - all the stories are ...
To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet muse with your fair fortune chose, And as complexions ...
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 Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
The Hands of the Betrothed (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Her tawny eyes are onyx of thoughtlessness, Hardened they are like gems in ancient modesty; Yea, and her mouth's prudent ...