Discouragement (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
Poems about strongholds (21 Poems)
Apologies To All The People In Lebanon (June Jordan Poems)
Dedicated to the 6o,ooo Palestinian men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983.I didn't know and nobody told ...
The Plague of Our Isle (Janet Hamilton Poems)
It is said, it is sung, it is written, and read,It sounds in the ear, and it swims in the ...
Rio Janeiro.* (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Now for a smacking South-east Trade to Rio!In ten days' sail or so you'll see the land.'Tis wondrous bold and ...
Temperance Warfare (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Sound To The Onset, The Onset, The Onset!"Arouse ye! arouse ye! the foe is at large,Again and again we must ...
Rocky Acres (Robert Graves Poems)
This is a wild land, country of my choice,With harsh craggy mountain, moor ample and bare.Seldom in these acres is ...
England (John Henry Newman Poems)
Type of the West, and glorying in the nameMore than in Faith's pure fame!Oh. trust not crafty fort nor rock ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Third (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
The sun hath set; the outworn armies sleep: But, in Arbaces' tent, by summons called For counsel secret on things ...
The End Of The Whole Matter (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
A tall brave man of gray three score,The sable columns rode before,The knightliest of the knightly throng,The bravest of the ...
The Freedman’s Triumphant Song (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Columbia!O, happy State!And truly greatExemplar of the free!Thou first-born light of Western SkiesAnd cynosure of wond'ring eyes,We hail to thee!Thou ...
Tenebrae (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours,When the waters of time ...
Genesis BK XVII (Caedmon Poems)
(ll. 1002-1005) Then the Lord of glory spake unto Cain, and askedwhere Abel was. Quickly the cursed fashioner of death ...
The Cow-Puncher’s Elegy (Arthur Chapman Poems)
I've ridden nigh a thousand leagues upon two bands of steel,And it takes a grizzled Westerner to know just how ...
The Prayer (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Many worlds have I made, said the Good God, "But this is best of all," He slipped the round earth ...
To A Politician (Edward Dyson Poems)
There was a moment when of you A splendid hope I had to tell,Believing "Here is one man who ...
Sonnet — The Montenegrin (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Undaunted watcher of the mountain track,Tho' surging cohorts like a sea below,Against thy cliff-walled homes their thunders throw;Proud, whilst thy ...
The Way (Robert Creeley Poem)
My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me, as mine by her I would not credit ...
Tenebrae (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time ...
Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision I may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels! That ...
Brumby’s Run (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
It lies beyond the Western Pines Towards the sinking sun, And not a survey mark defines The bounds of "Brumby's ...
The Royal Tombs Of Golconda (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
I MUSE among these silent fanes Whose spacious darkness guards your dust; Around me sleep the hoary plains That hold ...