“Is It Nothing to You?” (Juliana Mary Louisa Probyn Poems)
We were playing on the green together, My sweetheart and I-Oh! so heedless in the gay June weather, When the word went ...
Poems about jested (21 Poems)
A Cross In Flanders (George Rostrevor Hamilton Poems)
In the face of death, they say, he joked—he had no fear; His comrades, when they laid him in a Flanders ...
The Bohemians (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Certain people would not clean their buttons,Nor polish buckles after latest fashions,Preferred their hair long, putties comfortable,Barely escaping hanging, indeed ...
Tale VI (George Crabbe Poems)
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire,Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,Who ...
The Princess (part 1) (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
"A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face,Of temper amorous, as the first of May,With lengths of yellow ringlet, ...
Percy Vere, The Peer’s Story – Introduction (Ernest Jones Poems)
TO MY READERS,-MY Life has been a wild, strange life,Now lulled in love-now wrapt in strife;I've had my dreams as ...
The Story Of Clarice III (Constance Naden Poems)
HOW lightly men can love, how soon forget! I said--yet some there be not false or fickle: For one, the ...
The Legend Of St. Regimund. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
St. Regimund, e'er he became a saint,Was much imbued with vulgar earthly taint;E'er he renounced the honors of a KnightAnd ...
Dialogue In Verse (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
_Jack._ Seest thou not yon farmer's son? He hath stoln my love from me, alas! What shall I do? ...
Ralph Isham, 1753 And Later (Eli Siegel Poems)
Know you him, O, him, Who lived in those days? He wore a gay coat, And he stepped along, jauntily, ...
The Priest And Minister (Arthur Weir Poems)
From Old France once sailed a vessel,Bearing hearts that came to nestleIn Acadia's breast and wrestle With its Winters cold.Priests ...
Roving Men (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Take the boat to the bounds of the ocean, Away to the ends of the earth:We've a heritage no one ...
The Private Of The Buffs (Francis Hastings Charles Doyle Poems)
LAST night, among his fellow roughs,He jested, quaff'd, and swore; A drunken private of the Buffs,Who never look'd before. To-day, ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
The Fool Errant (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Fool Errant sat by the highway of life And his gaze wandered up and his gaze wandered down, A ...
From The Ladies Defence (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
The Princess (part 1) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face, Of temper amorous, as the first of May, With lengths of ...
Geraint And Enid (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
At Home (Christina Rossetti Poems)
When I was dead, my spirit turned To seek the much-frequented house: I passed the door, and saw my friends ...
The Dream (Amy Levy Poems)
Believe me, this was true last night, Tho' it is false to-day. -- A.M.F. Robinson. A fair dream to my ...