The Thirteenth Olympic Ode Of Pindar (Henry James Pye Poems)
To Xenophon of Corinth, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, and Pentathlon, at Olympia. ARGUMENT. The Poet begins his ...
Poems about isthmus (21 Poems)
The Close Of The Year (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
ANOTHER and another! 'Tis the stillAnd solemn hour of midnight. Not a soundOf mortal life disturbs the awful calmThat rests ...
Avenged! (P G Wodehouse Poems)
After a pause ALICE began, "Well,they were both very unpleasant characters -""De mortuis -" said TWEEDLEDEE reprovingly."I don't know what ...
In Love (Maurice Thompson Poems)
Love is an isthmus that doth linkThis life with that which is to be;On either hand rolls off a sea,To ...
The Cnydian Oracle (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"What though the Isthmus lacks an ocean-gate,Delve not the soil! If Jove had willed it so,His watchful power had opened ...
Cargoes (John Masefield Poems)
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,With a cargo of ivory,And apes and peacocks,Sandalwood, cedarwood, ...
The Bush (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
The Cranes Of Ibycus (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Once to the song and chariot-fight,Where all the tribes of Greece uniteOn Corinth's isthmus joyously,The god-loved Ibycus drew nigh.On him ...
The Postman (Billy Bennett Poems)
Three cheers for the postman, the jolly old postman,With letters for Smith, Brown and Kelly, A load in his sack, ...
The Island Of Endless Play (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Said Willie to Tom "Let us hie awayTo the wonderful Island of Endless Play.It lies off the border of 'No ...
The Barbarous Chief (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
There was a kingdom known as the Mind,A kingdom vast as fair,And the brave king, Brain, had the right to ...
My desk is not so wide that I might lean (Boris Pasternak Poems)
My desk is not so wide that I might leanAgainst the edge and reach out past the shellOf board and ...
A Hermit Thrush (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Year of Meteors, 1859 ’60. (Walt Whitman Poems)
YEAR of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs; I would sing ...
Starting from Paumanok. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
The Cranes Of Ibycus (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Once to the song and chariot-fight, Where all the tribes of Greece unite On Corinth's isthmus joyously, The god-loved Ibycus ...
A Tall Man (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE MOUTH of this man is a gaunt strong mouth. The head of this man is a gaunt strong head. ...
Essay on Man (Alexander Pope Poems)
The First Epistle Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let ...
The Riddle of the World (Alexander Pope Poems)
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of ...
Cargoes (John Masefield Poems)
QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes ...