The Old Sheperd’s Recollections (Matilda Betham Poems)
Low, heavy clouds are hanging on the hills, And half-impatient of the sun's approach, Shake sullenly their cold and languid wings! Oh! it ...
Poems about supplications (19 Poems)
Concerning Prayer, And Its Proper Requisites (Rees Prichard Poems)
PUT off thy shoes, ere thou thy God dost greet,Thy ass, before thou sacrificest, bind —Wash, ere the altar thou ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Fifth Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
_Interlocutors_:LAODOMIA. GIULIA.LAO. Some other time, oh my sister, thou wilt hear what happened tothose nine blind men, who were at ...
The Conflict For Civil Rights (Henry McNeal Turner Poems)
I.A Golden House on golden columns raised,In redly tinted skies bespangled blazed;With opening doors diffused a gladsome light,And glorious gleams ...
That It Is In Vain To Pray For The Dead (Rees Prichard Poems)
My dear Relation, and the Friend I love,You've put to me a question I approve:I therefore think myself in duty ...
Manasseh (Henry Kendall Poems)
Manasseh, lord of Judah, and the sonOf him who, favoured of Jehovah, sawAt midnight, when the skies were flushed with ...
Advice To The Sick (Rees Prichard Poems)
THY mortal part shou'd sickness chance to seize,Consider, whence the fi'ry dart was sent,Consider, who inflicted the disease,And to what ...
The Prodigy. (Mary Barber Poems)
Tho' Rhyme serves the Thoughts of great Poets to fetter,It sets off the Sense of small Poets the better.When I've ...
Satire V (John Donne Poems)
Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor theyWhom any pity warmes; He which did layRules to make Courtiers, ...
On Seeing The Captives, Lately Redeem’d From Barbary By His Majesty. (Mary Barber Poems)
A sight like this, who can unmov'd survey?Impartial Muse, can'st thou with--hold thy Lay?See the freed Captives hail their native ...
Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 10 (Sa di Poems)
I was constantly engaged in prayer, at the head of the prophetYahia's tomb in the cathedral mosque of Damascus, when ...
XXII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Her sweet face took from me all thoughts of the wild white rose:Her ringlets eradicated all consideration of the musk ...
So that you will hear me (Pablo Neruda Poems)
So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklace, drunken bellfor your ...
The Sphinx (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, with empty socketsStaring o'er the desert's way;Mutely countenancing the tragediesOf ages; crawled o'er as by gnats,By tribes that in ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ILMARINEN'S WEDDING-FEAST.Louhi, hostess of the Northland,Ancient dame of Sariola,While at work within her dwelling,Heard the whips crack on the fenlands,Heard ...
The Kalevala – Rune I (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
BIRTH OF WAINAMOINEN.In primeval times, a maiden,Beauteous Daughter of the Ether,Passed for ages her existenceIn the great expanse of heaven,O'er ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh TabletIX (Anonymous Asian Poems)
Over his friend, Enkidu, Gilgamesh cried bitterly, roaming the wilderness. "I am going to die!—am I not like Enkidu?! ...
Before The Altars (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
He answered: Though prayers dark 'midsmothering cloudsBeseech my mercy, hearken how I strainAgainst you know not what, whose dreaded shroudsBenumb ...
A Story (Li-Young Lee Poem)
Sad is the man who is asked for a story and can't come up with one. His five-year-old son waits ...