Scum O’ The Earth (Robert Haven Schauffler Poems)
IAt the gate of the West I stand,On the isle where the nations throng.We call them "scum o' the earth";Stay, ...
Custom & Convention Poems (428 Poems)
The Table Of Emerald (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
That 'Emerald Green of the Pyramid'-- Were I where it is laid, I'd ask no king for his heavy crown, As its hidden ...
The Archbishop And Gil Blas (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
A MODERNIZED VERSIONI DON'T think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray,But so are many young folks; I ...
An Omar for Ladies (Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon Poems)
IOne for her Club and her own Latch-key fights,Another wastes in Study her good Nights.Ah, take the Clothes and let ...
Immorality (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to ...
Sheep Sheering. Written at Mr. John E—‘s, Gedney (Joseph Proud Poems)
From days unnumber'd hath the custom beenTo shear, in summer months, the loaded sheep,And keep the jocund feast: so still ...
The Yarn of the (John Masefield Poems)
The Loch Achray was a clipper tallWith seven-and-twenty hands in all.Twenty to hand and reef and haul,A skipper to sail ...
On The Centenary Of The Presidency College (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
A hundred years! The very phraseUnsepultures the million'd dead;Three generations in that space,Ghosts of the past, have breathed and fled.Time ...
For My People (Margaret Walker Poems)
For my people everywhere singing their slave songsrepeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their bluesand jubilees, praying their prayers ...
The Dream Ring Of The Desert (J Milton Hayes Poems)
THE MERCHANT Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race,And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.His daughter fair Leola ...
To The Five Members Of The Honourable House Of Commons ,The Humble Petition Of The Poets (John Denham Poems)
After so many concurring petitionsFrom all ages and sexes, and all conditions,We come in the rear to present our folliesTo ...
The Shepherd and the Philosopher (John Gay Poems)
Remote from cities liv'd a swain,Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;His head was silver'd o'er with age,And long experience ...
A Problem In Dynamics (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
An inextensible heavy chainLies on a smooth horizontal plane,An impulsive force is applied at A,Required the initial motion of K.Let ...
The Misanthrope’s Reverie (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
What's man but a heathenish bandit?Earth's charity proves but a lie -Tis given with looks that remand it;Philanthropy's all in ...
To The Morning (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Beams of the daybreak faint! I hailYour dubious hues, as on the robeOf night, which wraps the slumbering globe,I mark ...
Never Had A Chance (Hattie Howard Poems)
Fresh from piano, school, and books, A happy girl with rosy looks Young Plowman wooed and won; despite Her pretty, pouting prejudice, Her deep ...
To The Earl Of Carlisle, K. G. (Henry Kirke White Poems)
I. 1.Retired, remote from human noise,An humble Poet dwelt serene;His lot was lowly, yet his joysWere manifold, I ween.He laid ...
The Falmouth Bell (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
Never was there lovelier townThan our Falmouth by the sea.Tender curves of sky look downOn her grace of knoll and ...
Bone And Sinew And Brain (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
YE white-maned waves of the Western Sea,That ride and roll to the strand,Ye strong-winged birds, never forced a-leeBy the gales ...
On Halloween (Janet Little Poems)
SOME folk in courts for pleasure sue,An' some ransack the theatre:The airy nymph is won by few;She's of so coy ...
A Little Mistake (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis a yarn I heard of a new-chum 'trap' On the edge of the Never-Never,Where the dead men lie and the ...
The Australian Marseillaise (Henry Lawson Poems)
SING the strong, proud song of Labour, Toss the ringing music high;Liberty's a nearer neighbour Than she was in days gone by.Workmen's ...
Prometheus, Or, The Poet’s Forethought. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Of Prometheus, how undaunted On Olympus' shining bastionsHis audacious foot he planted,Myths are told and songs are chanted, Full of promptings and ...
The Travellers (Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass Poems)
Away from the city, away from the crowd, Two comrades in sorrow traversed hill and dale; The gloom of their hearts did ...
Centennial Celebration (Julia A Moore Poems)
In the year eighteen seventy-six, A Fourth of July celebrationWas held in Grand Rapids city In honor to our nation.The largest city ...
Experience In Poverty (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A.HOW bitterly you speak!B.I have good warrant.A.Well, for my part, I hold your creed is false.Uncharitable, monstrous! I have seenThe ...
The Woods (Hattie Howard Poems)
I love the woods when the magic hand Of Spring, as if sweeping the keys Of a wornout instrument, touches the earth; When ...
Bagpipe Music (Louis MacNeice Poems)
It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the ...
The Occasion of the Law Suit. chapter I (John Arbuthnot Poems)
I need not tell you of the great quarrels that have happened in ourneighbourhood since the death of the late ...
Shiver The Goblet (John Hartley Poems)
Shiver the goblet and scatter the wine! Tempt me no more with the sight!I care not though brightly as ruby it ...