Mr. Hosea Biglow’s Speech In March Meeting (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I don't much s'pose, hows'ever I should plen it,I could git boosted into th' House or Sennit,--Nut while the twolegged ...
Logic Poems (70 Poems)
The Golden Legend: VI. The School Of Salerno (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
A traveling Scholastic affixing his Theses to the gateof the College._Scholastic._ There, that is my gauntlet, my banner, my shield,Hung ...
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto III. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Second Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
MARICONDO. Here you see a flaming yoke enveloped in knots round which iswritten: Levius aura; which means that Divine love ...
Modern Moses (James Madison Bell Poems)
There is a tide in men's affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by ...
The Turtle And Sparrow. An Elegiac Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
Behind an unfrequented glade,Where yew and myrtle mix their shade,A widow Turtle pensive sat,And wept her murder'd lover's fate.The Sparrow ...
Speech Of Honourable Preserved Doe In Secret Caucus (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I thank ye, my frien's, for the warmth o' your greetin':Ther' 's few airthly blessin's but wut's vain an' fleetin';But ...
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Education – Eloquence ) (Henry Baker Poems)
Education.See Example. Parents and Children.Let no indecent Speech, or Action vile,Be known within the Walls where Youth is bred:Far, far ...
Paulo Purganti And His Wife: An Honest, But A Simple Pair (Matthew Prior Poems)
Beyond the fix'd and settl'd RulesOf Vice and Virtue in the Schools,Beyond the Letter of the Law,Which keeps our Men ...
The Deacon’s Masterpiece Or, The Wonderful (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years ...
Child of Europe (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
1We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day.Who in May admire trees floweringAre better than those who perished.We, who ...
The God-Forgotte (Henry Lawson Poems)
PAT M'DURMER brought the tidings to the town of God-Forgotten : 'There are lively days before ye-commin Parlymint's dissolved!'And the boys ...
The Last Survivor (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
YES! the vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast,And the thought comes strangely o'er me, who will live ...
Once More (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
"Will I come?" That is pleasant! I beg to inquireIf the gun that I carry has ever missed fire?And which ...
The Nomades (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What Nature makes in any moodTo me is warranted for good,Though long before I learned to seeShe did not set ...
To an Old Grammar (Martha M Simpson Poems)
Oh, mighty conjuror, you raise The ghost of my lost youth —The happy, golden-tinted daysWhen earth her treasure-trove displays, And everything is ...
A Letter From A Stupid Woman (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
(A Letter to a Man)(1)My dear Master,This is a letter from a stupid womanHas a stupid woman before me, written ...
Nature’s Nature (Paramahansa Yogananda Poems)
Away, ye muses, all away!Away with songs of finch and fay.Away the jaundiced sightThat magnifies the firefly's lightTo bonfire bright;That ...
Darkness (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
WHEN hurrying home on a rainy night And hearing tree-tops rubbed and tossed, And seeing never a friendly star And feeling your way ...
The Guile of Dad M’Ginnis (William Thomas Goodge Poems)
When M,Ginnis struck the mining camp at Jamberoora CreekHis behaviour was appreciated highly;For, although he was a quiet man, in ...
Response To A Logician (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.And sing this song in response to you.Listen, pay heed to what ...
Odysseus: In Memory Of Arthur Griffith (Padraic Colum Poems)
You had the prose of logic and of scorn,And words to sledge an iron argument,And yet you could draw down ...
Black Love (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Black love, provide the adequate electricfor what is lapsed and lenient in us now.Rouse us from blur. Call us.Call adequately the ...
Day Job and Night Job (Andrew Hudgins Poems)
After my night job, I sat in classand ate, every thirteen minutes,an orange peanut-butter cracker.Bright grease adorned my notes.At noon ...
Their Story Runneth Thus (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Two little children played among the flowers,Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;The children's ages were the very sameE'en ...
The Bush (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
Tale III (George Crabbe Poems)
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
The Princess (part 5) (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
"Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound,We stumbled on a stationary voice,And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from the palace' ...
Hero And Leander. The Third Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
New light gives new directions, fortunes new, To fashion our endeavours that ensue. More harsh, at least more ...