Poems about outbreak (16 Poems)
Two Hours In Reservoir (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
1 I am an anti-fascist… anti-FaustIch liebe life and I admire chaosIch bin to wish, Genosse Offizieren,Dem Zeit zum Faust for a while spazieren. 2 Without embracing Polish propaganda,In Krakow he had missed his Vaterland, andHe dreamt of the philosopher’s true … Continue reading
A Grammarian’s Funeral Shortly after the Revival of Learnin (Robert Browning Poems)
Let us begin and carry up this corpse,Singing together.Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpesEach in its tetherSleeping safe on the bosom of the plain,Cared-for till cock-crow:Look out if yonder be not day againRimming the rock-row!That’s the appropriate country; … Continue reading
A Ballad (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
O, were you at war in the red Eastern land?What did you hear, and what did you see?Saw you my son, with his sword in his hand?Sent he, by you, any dear word to me? “I come from red war, … Continue reading
A Prospective Visit (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
While _any_ day was notable and dearThat gave the children Noey, history hereRecords his advent emphasized indeedWith sharp italics, as he came to feedThe stock one special morning, fair and bright,When Johnty and Bud met him, with delightUnusual even as … Continue reading
Stray Birds 61 – 70 (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
61 TAKE my wine in my own cup, friend. It loses its wreath of foam when poured into that of others. 62 THE Perfect decks itself in beauty for the love of the Imperfect. 63 GOD says to man, “I … Continue reading
Mrs. Moody (James McIntyre Poems)
When this country it was woody, Its great champion, Mrs. Moody, She showed she had both pluck and push, In her work, roughing in the bush. For there all alone she will dwell, At time McKenzie did rebel, Outbreak her husband strove to quell — Her … Continue reading
Fragments (Albert Pike Poems)
(OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.) Dear woman! star of sad life’s clouded heaven,I dedicate myself to thee again; Fair woman! as man’s guardian angel given, Thou to the soul art like the summer rain, Or gentle dew that falls at morn … Continue reading
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Eighth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
On the next morrow, early, rose the king; And sat upon his throne: at his right hand, The heroic queen: and, all for battle dight, Before him, the chief captains of the host. Then thus the monarch: ”Our loved queen … Continue reading
Ernest: The Rule Of Right – Book IV (Capel Lofft Poems)
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for the will, manhood’s life-stream,Runs in its working channel swiftly forth,Or else being stagnant, straightway is corruptTo births unwholesome and dank … Continue reading
The Coming Of Te Rauparaha. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
BLUE, the wreaths of smoke, like drooping bannersFrom the flaming battlements of sunsetHung suspended; and within his whareHipe, last of Ngatiraukawa’s chieftains,Lay a-dying! Ringed about his death-bed,Like a palisade of carven figures,Stood the silent people of the village -Warriors and … Continue reading