Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
Academic Poems (20 Poems)
The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto II (Richard Savage Poems)
While thus a mind humane, and wise, he shows,All-eloquent of truth his language flows.Youth, tho' depress'd, thro' all his form ...
The School-Boy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
The Travellers In Haste; (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
ADDRESSED TOTHOMAS CLARKSON, ESQ.IN 1814,WHEN MANY ENGLISH ARRIVED AT PARIS, BUTREMAINED A VERY SHORT TIME.LOV'D ENGLAND ! now the narrow ...
The Printer’s Error (Aaron Fogel Poems)
Fellow compositorsand pressworkers!I, Chief PrinterFrank Steinman,having worked fifty-seven years at my trade,and served five yearsas presidentof the HollistonPrinter's Council,being of ...
Sonnet XXV. To Baptist Noel (John Moultrie Poems)
Noel, our paths, in academic days,Lay far apart, though by one Mother bred,And with her noblest sons together fedOn food ...
The Dunciad: Book IV (Alexander Pope Poems)
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
Cadet Grey – Canto II (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
The Glory of the Invention (Atom Yarjanian Poems)
Mesrob, standing against the Armenian centuries, You, rock of diamond, You, undiscoverable lighthouse of consciousness, Which sows flashes From the ...
To My Son, Age 15, At Cambridge (Anne Hunter Poems)
NOW twice the spring, with flowrets gay,Hath 'broider'd o'er her mantle green,And twice the merry month of MayWith hawthorn deck'd ...
Ignoramus (C J Dennis Poems)
What crass, abysmal ignorance! Forlorn! Despite his looks, the man must be half-witted!They gasped for air; they gazed on him ...
Sonnet XLI. George Ripley (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
WARM, generous and young in heart and brain,A wise, ripe scholar of the antique mould,Had he but chosen he might ...
Free Verse (Robert Graves Poem)
I now delight In spite Of the might And the right Of classic tradition, In writing And reciting Straight ahead, ...
To Tag (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
To tag, or not to tag: that is the problem: Whether 'tis nobler in the whole to endure The slings ...
Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton (Alan Dugan Poem)
The first and last time I met my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at a protest poetry reading against some anti-constitutional ...
Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...
THREE SONGS FOR MAYDAY MORNING (Barry Tebb Poems)
( I ) for 'JC' of the TLS Nightmare of metropolitan amalgam Grand Hotel and myself as a guest there ...
What He Thought (Heather McHugh Poems)
We were supposed to do a job in Italy and, full of our feeling for ourselves (our sense of being ...
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 ...
With Tenure (David Lehman Poems)
If Ezra Pound were alive today (and he is) he'd be teaching at a small college in the Pacific Northwest ...