Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
Poems about flamed (26 Poems)
A Tree Telling of Orpheus (Denise Levertov Poem)
White dawn. Stillness.When the rippling began I took it for sea-wind, coming to our valley with rumors of salt, of ...
The Annunciation (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Helen Parry Eden) "Hail Mary, full of grace," the Angel saith. Our Lady bows her head, and is ashamed; ...
Peace XVIII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The ...
Chrystmasse of Olde (Eugene Field Poem)
God rest you, Chrysten gentil men, Wherever you may be,-- God rest you all in fielde or hall, Or on ...
Dirge (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Knows he who tills this lonely field To reap its scanty corn, What mystic fruit his acres yield At midnight ...
The Obesion (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
Logos (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own! Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge Constant my heart ...
Logos (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own! Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge Constant my heart ...
Wednesday (Marvin Bell Poem)
Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon. The carp lay on the bottom, resting, while dusk took ...
Mummia (Rupert Brooke Poem)
As those of old drank mummia To fire their limbs of lead, Making dead kings from Africa Stand pandar to ...
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Going Back to School (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
The Patriot (Robert Browning Poem)
An Old Story I It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad. The ...
The Prophet (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
Longing for spiritual springs, I dragged myself through desert sands ... An angel with three pairs of wings Arrived to ...
The Scottish Engineer (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
With eyes that searched in the dark, Peering along the line, Stood the grim Scotsman, Hector Clark, Driver of "Forty-nine". ...
How Gilbert Died (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
There's never a stone at the sleeper's head, There's never a fence beside, And the wandering stock on the grave ...
Winter Song (Wilfred Owen Poems)
The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and ...
At the Long Sault (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
A prisoner under the stars I lie, With no friend near; To-morrow they lead me forth to die, The stake ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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 ...
Epitaphs For Two Players (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
The Hard Times In Elfland (Sidney Lanier Poems)
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...
The Jacquerie A Fragment (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...