Men (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
Poems about throttled (21 Poems)
The Pit (Ivan Goran Kovacic Poems)
BLOOD is my daylight, and darkness too. Blessing of night has been gouged from my cheeks Bearing with it my more lucky ...
Gondoline (Henry Kirke White Poems)
The night it was still, and the moon it shoneSerenely on the sea,And the waves at the foot of the ...
The Imprisoned Innocents (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
Memory (Johan Andreas Der Mouw Poems)
As swift the horseman o'er Lake Constance flewHis steed, snow- scattering. The twilight came.His shadow, dark- blue giant, slowly greyed,E'en ...
South Carolina To The States Of The North (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I LIFT these hands with iron fetters banded:Beneath the scornful sunlight and cold starsI rear my once imperial forehead brandedBy ...
An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. (Matthew Prior Poems)
When crowding folks, with strange ill faces,Were making legs, and begging places,And some with patents, some with merit,Tired out my ...
Come Quietly, Britain! (Lloyd Roberts Poems)
COME quietly, Britain, all together, come!It is time!We have waited, weighed, and wonderedWho had blundered;Stared askance at one anotherAs our ...
Gutter Press (Paul Dehn Poems)
News Editor: Peer ConfessesBishop UndressesTorso Wrapped in Rug,Girl Guide Throttled,Baronet BottledJ.P. goes to Jug.But yesterday's storyOld and hoaryNever mind who ...
Thy Hill Leave Not (John Freeman Poems)
Thy hill leave not, O Spring,Nor longer leap down to the new-green'd Plain.Thy western cliff-caves keepO Wind, nor branch-borne Echo ...
March (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
There's a wind blowing Cold through the corridors, A ghost-wind, The flapping of defeated wings, A hell-fantasy From meadows damned To eternal April And listening, listening To the ...
The Same Old Strain (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Each day that I live I am persuaded anew,A maxim I long have believed in, is true.Each day I grow ...
The Cooling Tower (Amy Clampitt Poems)
By night a laddered diagram seen from the windows of this bedroom town-rayflowcrs of dread ascending and descending- identifies the ...
After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok (Amy Lowell Poem)
But why did I kill him? Why? Why? In the small, gilded room, near the stair? My ears rack and ...
A Song of Brave Men (Henry Lawson Poem)
Man, is the Sea your master? Sea, and is man your slave? - This is the song of brave men ...
A Farewell to Agassiz (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
How the mountains talked together, Looking down upon the weather, When they heard our friend had planned his Little trip ...
Penmaen Pool (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
For the Visitors' Book at the Inn Who long for rest, who look for pleasure Away from counter, court, or ...
The Prisoners (Robert Hayden Poem)
Steel doors - guillotine gates - of the doorless house closed massively. We were locked in with loss. Guards frisked ...
Beautiful Vagabonds (Desi Di Nardo Poems)
I am not the piston in the flower or The bulging seed throttled by pollen But a separate figure expectant ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
The Lesson (Roger McGough Poems)
Chaos ruled OK in the classroom as bravely the teacher walked in the nooligans ignored him hid voice was lost ...