Courage Poems (3157 Poems)
Song Of Bread (Juozas Tysliava Poems)
It grew dark.The streets all blurred.I went out.And hungerWas there to meet me.All I saw was a dark blur,Every city parkAnd then beyond,One alleyway after another. It’s all the same to me, though:Whether out in the fieldsOr roaming the streets … Continue reading
My Father (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MY father! in the vague, mysterious past,My boyish thoughts have wandered o’er and o’er,To thy lone grave upon a distant shore,The wanderer of the waters, still at last.Never in childhood have I blithely sprungTo catch my father’s voice, or climb … Continue reading
Death Of Captain Cooke, (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
OF ‘THE BELLEROPHON,’ KILLED IN THE SAME BATTLE. When anxious Spain, along her rocky shore,From cliff to cliff returned the sea-fight’s roar;When flash succeeding flash, tremendous brokeThe haze incumbent, and the clouds of smoke,As oft the volume rolled away, thy … Continue reading
The Stars And Stripes Shall Never Trail The Dust (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
‘Tis a colored captain’s story‘Twas told to Uncle Sam,He was mustered out because the war was o’er;He’d borne his honor bravely,The victory he had won,He came to render up the flag he bore. He was standing at the White HouseWith … Continue reading
Shamrock Song (Katharine Tynan Poems)
O, the red rose may be fair,And the lily statelier;But my shamrock, one in three,Takes the very heart of me! Many a lover hath the roseWhen june’s musk-wind breathes and blows:And in many a bower is heardHer sweet praise from … Continue reading
Jack Roy (Herman Melville Poems)
Kept up by relays of generations youngNever dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;While in sands, sounds, and seas where the storm-petrels cry,Dropped mute around the globe, these halyard singers lie.Short-lived the clippers for racing-cups that run,And speeds in life’s career many a … Continue reading
Fortuna Et Cupidas (Irving Layton Poems)
Appetite and chance, luck and desiretogether make a man’s fatenot the follish lines on his palm nor the conjugationof stars rule his lotbut these intangible bars infrangibly up and downon which if he pleases he can graph his daysuntil he … Continue reading
The Gentleman (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Not alone by generous birth (Greatly though it fashions men),Not by all the wealth of earth, Not by all the talents ten,Not by beauty, nor by wit, No, nor manners well refined,–Is that name of honour writ On the forehead of the mind. Poverty … Continue reading
Revenge (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
Not yesterday, but centuries long,The Romans hated all of Negro blood,For Hannibal did slay the crew,As Carthage marched to martial song.Again Adowa made them halt,When Menelik did crush them low:He proved the Blacks were timely men-The heroes still without a … Continue reading
The Gentlemen of Dickens (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE gentlemen of Dickens Were mostly very poor,And innocent of grammar, And of parentage obscure;But rich or poor or thriving, Of high or lowly birth,The gentlemen of Dickens Were the grandest on the earth. The gentlemen of Dickens, They wore no fancy names-Like Reginald or … Continue reading