The Rhyme of the Three Sealers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
Poems about widows (23 Poems)
HIS WINDING-SHEET (Robert Herrick Poem)
Come thou, who art the wine and wit Of all I've writ; The grace, the glory, and the best Piece ...
THE WIDOWS’ TEARS; OR, DIRGE OF DORCAS (Robert Herrick Poems)
Come pity us, all ye who see Our harps hung on the willow-tree; Come pity us, ye passers-by, Who see ...
A Fantasy (Louise Gluck Poem)
I'll tell you something: every day people are dying. And that's just the beginning. Every day, in funeral homes, new ...
The Widow and Her Son XXI (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Night fell over North Lebanon and snow was covering the villages surrounded by the Kadeesha Valley, giving the fields and ...
The Walk (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
One day while I was walking, All worried, with fear and lost; I thought of things I had done, And ...
The Sacredness of Rest (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
restorative, as the creator planned the sacredness of rest written purposefully into the cycle of the weeks, the years, letting ...
With Her Needle, Her Thread (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
with her needle, her thread making tunics, other clothes for the widows, the poor serving, using her gifts her ordinary ...
Scraps of Cloth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Scraps of cloth, needle, thread ordinary things, her tools combined in her ministry meeting needs, of the poor, widows following ...
The Book of Ruth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A soliloquy on the meaning, the placement the position of the Book of Ruth, a monologue on the transition, the ...
Matriarchs (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They sit, week on week, year on year, solitary matriarchs Hair of silver, grey, white, spun gold Stoic women, widows, ...
The Destruction Of Sennacherib (Lord Byron Poem)
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And ...
116. On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies (Robert Burns Poems)
A' YE wha live by sowps o' drink, A' ye wha live by crambo-clink, A' ye wha live and never ...
Gentleman Alone (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The young maricones and the horny muchachas, The big fat widows delirious from insomnia, The young wives thirty hours' pregnant, ...
Burning of the Exeter Theatre (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1887, which many people will long remember, The burning of the Theatre at Exeter on ...
The Clepington Catastrophe (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884, That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store, ...
The Loss of the Victoria (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
Judge Selah Lively (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Suppose you stood just five feet two, And had worked your way as a grocery clerk, Studying law by candle ...
Tenth Commandment (David Lehman Poems)
The woman said yes she would go to Australia with him Unless he heard wrong and she said Argentina Where ...
Among Children (Philip Levine Poems)
I walk among the rows of bowed heads-- the children are sleeping through fourth grade so as to be ready ...
Nirvana (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Through seas of dreams and seas of phantasies, Through seas of solitudes and vacancies, And through my Self, the deepest ...
The Symphony (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
To Beethoven (Sidney Lanier Poems)
In o'er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music's bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect ...