The Pennsylvania (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
PreludeI sing the Pilgrim of a softer climeAnd milder speech than those brave men's who broughtTo the ice and iron ...
Poems about snake-like (19 Poems)
The Landmarks (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.THROUGH the streets of MarbleheadFast the red-winged terror sped;Blasting, withering, on it came,With its hundred tongues of flame,Where St. Michael's ...
Ballad Of The Old Cypress (Du Fu Poems)
In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branchesare like green bronze; its roots ...
The Old Fashion (Ida McCormick Poems)
"The old, old fashion,—Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, forthat older fashion yet, of Immortality!"—Dickens.Despite all human passion,And ...
Scheherazade (Janina Degutyte Poems)
The thousand and one nightsOf insidious, snake-like delays...The thousand and one nightsOf prisons and fairy tales. -Talk, Scheherazade... The sultan ...
England’s Enemy (John Freeman Poems)
She stands like one with mazy cares distraught.Around her sudden angry storm-clouds rise,Dark, dark! and comes the look into her ...
A Love Song (Yehudah HaLevi Poems)
'Do you see over my shoulders falling,Snake-like ringlets waving free?Have no fear, for they are twistedTo allure you unto me.'Thus ...
To the Ideal. Prefatory Poem to The Pilgrims of the Rhine (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poems)
I. Like the sweet Naiad of the Grecian's dreams,A Spirit born of Song — unseen, all-seeing—Lives deep within our dark ...
The Creek of the Four Graves [Late Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
A settler in the olden times went forthWith four of his most bold and trusted menInto the wilderness-went forth to ...
The Legend of La Brea (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Down beside the loathly Pitch Lake,In the stately Morichal,Sat an ancient Spanish Indian,Peering through the columns tall.Watching vainly for the ...
Bellona (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Thou art moulded in marble impassive, False goddess, fair statue of strife,Yet standest on pedestal massive, A symbol and token ...
The Missing Ships (Albert Laighton Poems)
Thou ever restless sea, " God's half-uttered mystery," Where are all the ships that sailed so gallantly away? Tell us, ...
Marching in Mexico (General George S Patton Jnr Poems)
The column winds on snake-like,Through blistering, treeless spaces;The hovering gray-black dust cloudsTint in ghoulish shades our faces. The sweat of ...
XX: It Was A Spot So Quiet (Alexander Anderson Poems)
It was a spot so quiet that the stream Was in itself a silence, and the wood Slept as if ...
The Great Grey Plain (Henry Lawson Poem)
Out West, where the stars are brightest, Where the scorching north wind blows, And the bones of the dead gleam ...
Ballad of the Old Cypress (Tu Fu Poem)
In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branches are like green bronze; its ...
The Moon, how definite its orb! (fragment) (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
The Moon, how definite its orb! Yet gaze again, and with a steady gaze-- 'Tis there indeed,--but where is it ...
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town (Charles Bukowski Poem)
Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian ...
Lui Et Elle (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
She is large and matronly And rather dirty, A little sardonic-looking, as if domesticity had driven her to it. Though ...