The Elfin Valley (Mary Webb Poems)
By this low rock pool, dark and sweet,Where panting Summer cools her feet,No creature stirs, except the leavesThat sometimes glide ...
Poems about prodigy (21 Poems)
The Wonderful Fish (Jasper Mayne Poems)
We show no monstrous crocodile,Nor any prodigy of Nile;No Remora that stops your fleet,Like serjeant's gallants in the street;No sea-horse ...
SONNET. VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire (Henry King Poems)
VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire,Thou wer't a wonder past compare:But frozen Love and fierce disdainBy their extremes ...
The Duellist – Book III (Charles Churchill Poems)
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
Night (Charles Churchill Poems)
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
The Fight With The Dragon (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Why run the crowd? What means the throngThat rushes fast the streets along?Can Rhodes a prey to flames, then, be?In ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXXI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
KULLERWOINEN SON OF EVIL.In the ancient times a motherHatched and raised some swans and chickens,Placed the chickens in the brushwood,Placed ...
A Riddle: A Tale (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
In Days of yore the Story goes,A subterranean Castle rose;Which rear'd its Head a wond'rous Height,The Work of some ingenious ...
A School Eclogue (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
EdwardHist, William! hist! what means that air so gay?Thy looks, thy dress, bespeak some holiday:Thy hat is brushed; thy hands, ...
The Groans Of The Tankard (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
OF strange events I sing, and portents dire;The wond'rous themes a reverent ear require;Tho' strange the tale, the faithful Muse ...
The Sweetness Of England (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
And when, at lastEscaped,-so many a green slope built on slopeBetwixt me and the enemy's house behind,I dared to rest, ...
Ye Bards Of England (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
England, cannot thy shores boast bards as great,And hearts as good as ever blest a State?When arts were rude and ...
The Legend Of The First Cam-u-el: An Arabian Apologue (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Across the sands of Syria,Or possibly Algeria,Or some benighted neighborhood of barrenness and drouth,There came the Prophet Samu-u-elUpon the Only ...
Celebration (Denise Levertov Poem)
Brilliant, this day - a young virtuoso of a day. Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors, deft hands. And every ...
Upon a Little Lady Under the Discipline of an Excellent Person. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
I. HOw comes the Day orecast ? the Flaming Sun Darkn'd at Noon, as if his Course were run ? ...
Evolution (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A mat of green, burgundy, and brown Covered the skin of the once open water Of the marsh, cut off ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
The Cuckoo (Robert William Service Poems)
No lyric line I ever penned The praise this parasitic bird; And what is more, I don't intend To write ...
Friendships Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia (Katherine Philips Poems)
Come, my Lucasia, since we see That miracles Men's Faith do move, By wonder and by prodigy To the dull ...
First Child … Second Child (Ogden Nash Poems)
FIRST Be it a girl, or one of the boys, It is scarlet all over its avoirdupois, It is red, ...
Baseball and Writing (Marianne Moore Poems)
Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what ...