Hiawatha And The Pearl-Feather (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, ...
Poems about plunging (31 Poems)
Ode to the Northeast Wind (Charles Kingsley Poem)
Welcome, wild Northeaster! Shame it is to see Odes to every zephyr; Ne'er a verse to thee. Welcome, black Northeaster! ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
The Merchantmen (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
The Coastwise Lights (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
The Bell Buoy (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1896 They christened my brother of old-- And a saintly name he bears-- They gave him his place to hold ...
The Ballad of the King’s Mercy (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told. His mercy fills the Khyber hills -- his grace ...
The Eye (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The Atlantic is a stormy moat; and the Mediterranean, The blue pool in the old garden, More than five thousand ...
I Hear an Army Charging Upon the Land (James Joyce Poem)
I hear an army charging upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: Arrogant, in ...
Invocation (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
This is for Elsa, also known as Liz, an ample-bosomed gospel singer: five discrete malignancies in one full breast. This ...
The Poet (Hermann Hesse Poem)
Only on me, the lonely one, The unending stars of the night shine, The stone fountain whispers its magic song, ...
The Return of Persephone (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
Gliding through the still air, he made no sound; Wing-shod and deft, dropped almost at her feet, And searched the ...
Under The Waterfall (Thomas Hardy Poem)
'Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of ...
In Memoriam: Four Poets (Robert Francis Poem)
1 Searock his tower above the sea, Searock he built, not ivory. Searock as well his haunted art Who gave ...
Waiting (Robert Frost Poem)
Afield at dusk What things for dream there are when specter-like, Moving amond tall haycocks lightly piled, I enter alone ...
Fishermen (James A. Emanuel Poem)
When three, he fished these lakes, Curled sleeping on a lip of rock, Crib blankets tucked from ants and fishbone ...
Song (John Davidson Poem)
THE boat is chafing at our long delay, And we must leave too soon The spicy sea-pinks and the inborne ...
Rangipo Desert (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
True and False Comforts (William Cowper Poem)
O God, whose favorable eye, The sin-sick soul revives, Holy and heavenly is the joy Thy shining presence gives. Not ...
The Flood (John Clare Poem)
On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood I've seen the winter floods their gambols play Through each old arch ...
Harrow-on-the-Hill (John Betjeman Poem)
When melancholy Autumn comes to Wembley And electric trains are lighted after tea The poplars near the stadium are trembly ...
The Zeppelin (Laurence Binyon Poem)
Guns! far and near Quick, sudden, angry, They startle the still street, Upturned faces appear, Doors open on darkness, There ...
The Twelve (Aleksandr Blok Poem)
III Our sons have gone to serve the Reds to serve the Reds to risk their heads! O bitter,bitter pain, ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Dream Song 56: Hell is empty. O that has come to pass (John Berryman Poem)
Hell is empty. O that has come to pass which the cut Alexandrian foresaw, and Hell is empty. Lightning fell ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 05: The Bitter Love-Song (Conrad Aiken Poem)
No, I shall not say why it is that I love you- Why do you ask me, save for vanity? ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02: The Fulfilled Dream (Conrad Aiken Poem)
More towers must yet be built-more towers destroyed- Great rocks hoisted in air; And he must seek his bread in ...