The Child’s Appeal (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
AN INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND REIGN OF ROBESPIERRE. Day dawned above a city's mart, Yet not 'mid peace and prayer: The ...
Poems about guillotine (21 Poems)
Litany to Satan: From Baudelaire (James Elroy Flecker Poems)
O grandest of the Angels, and most wise,O fallen God, fate-driven from the skies,Satan, at last take pity on our ...
Blood And Wine (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
(A certain little renegade of the Revolution chants ahymn of praise to his erstwhile enemy.) Behold! The helots of the land Are ...
The Winds (John Freeman Poems)
In these green fields, in this green spring,In this green world of burning sweetThat drives its sour from everythingAnd burns ...
The Midnight Mass (Ada Cambridge Poems)
An Incident of the French Revolution.THE light lay trembling in a silver bar Along the western borders of the ...
Breitmann In Forty-Eight (Charles Godfrey Leland Poems)
DERE woned once a studente, All in der Stadt Paris,Whom jeder der ihn kennte, Der rowdy Breitmann hiess. He roosted ...
The Anarchist. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
THE dawn hangs heavy on the distant hill,The darkness shudders slowly into light;And from the weary bosom of the nightThe ...
Ode To Joy (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,Daughter of Elysium,Fire drunken we are ent'ringHeavenly, thy holy home!Thy enchantments bind together,What did custom stern ...
Lines On The Place De La Concorde At Paris, (Amelia Opie Poems)
Originally called the Place de Louis Seize,--next the Place de laRevolution, where the perpetual guillotine stood. PROUD Seine, along thy ...
On the Place de la Concorde (Amelia Opie Poems)
Proud Seine, along thy winding ...
The Daisies (Edith Nesbit Poems)
In the great green park with the wooden palings -The wooden palings so hard to climb,There are fern and foxglove, ...
The Bride’s Toilette (Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz Poems)
"(The Conciergerie, 1793) ""DAME, how the moments go- And the bride is not ready! Call all her tiring maids, ...
Railway Siding At Night (Douglas Gibson Poems)
The night vibrates with the chatter of trucks,Of clanking couplings and screaming wheels;A column of smoke glows pink from an ...
Malmaison (Amy Lowell Poem)
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
The Prisoners (Robert Hayden Poem)
Steel doors - guillotine gates - of the doorless house closed massively. We were locked in with loss. Guards frisked ...
I watched the Moon around the House (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I watched the Moon around the House Until upon a Pane -- She stopped -- a Traveller's privilege -- for ...
Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
a novel by Richard Brautigan THE COVER FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA The cover for Trout Fishing in America is ...
THE COLOSSUS (Barry Tebb Poems)
(Goya, an old man in exile, looks at his self-portrait) A bull's neck, still much needed, Deserving exile or the ...
To-Day, This Insect (Dylan Thomas Poems)
To-day, this insect, and the world I breathe, Now that my symbols have outelbowed space, Time at the city spectacles, ...
Totem (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The engine is killing the track, the track is silver, It stretches into the distance. It will be eaten nevertheless. ...