Francis II, King of Naples (Amy Lowell Poem)
Written after reading Trevelyan's "Garibaldi and the making of Italy" Poor foolish monarch, vacillating, vain, Decaying victim of a race ...
Poems about plotting (21 Poems)
The Children’s Hour (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupation, ...
Letter to S.S. from Mametz Wood (Robert Graves Poem)
I never dreamed we'd meet that day In our old haunts down Fricourt way, Plotting such marvellous journeys there For ...
The Price of His Madness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The delusion of power of central authority unwilling to leave in the face of the protest The price of his ...
Threnody (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Snow Day (Billy Collins Poem)
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 03: Palimpsest: A Deceitful Portrait (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Dedication To A Book Of Stories Selected From The Irish Novelists (William Butler Yeats Poems)
There was a green branch hung with many a bell When her own people ruled this tragic Eire; And from ...
Ophelia (Elinor Wylie Poems)
My locks are shorn for sorrow Of love which may not be; Tomorrow and tomorrow Are plotting cruelty. The winter ...
Chanting the Square Deific. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new-out ...
Communism (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
When my blood flows calm as a purling river, When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway, It ...
The Ballad Of Pious Pete (Robert William Service Poems)
"The North has got him." --Yukonism. I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did. I ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Yankee Doodle (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung ...
A Curse for Kings (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A curse upon each king who leads his state, No matter what his plea, to this foul game, And may ...
The Raft (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
The whole world on a raft! A King is here, The record of his grandeur but a smear. Is it ...
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, ...