Haymakers, Rakers, Reapers, And Mowers (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Haymakers, rakers, reapers, and mowers,Wait upon your summer queen.Dress up with musk-rose her eglantine bowers,Daffodils strew the green.Sing, dance, and ...
Sports Poems (878 Poems)
So that you will hear me (Pablo Neruda Poems)
So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklace, drunken bellfor your ...
Gossip (John Kenyon Poems)
Gossip right and left you're strowing, Never heeding what you do; Tho' each idle word you're sowing Friend and neighbour long may rue. When ...
October’s Little Miseries (Jules Laforgue Poems)
Every October I start to get upset.The factories' hundred throats blow smoke to the sky.The pullets are getting fatfor Christmas ...
The Temptation Of St. Anthony (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
It didn't help for him to drive the quillsOf porcupines into his lecher's flesh -His pandemonian senses uttered shrillExpulsive cries ...
Vigil (Katharine Tynan Poems)
At night, when all the house is still, Wide-waked the chairs and tables comeAnd yawn and stretch their limbs until The maids ...
Rebecca Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
A trick that everyone abhorsIn little girls is slamming doors.A wealthy banker's little daughterWho lived in Palace Green, Bayswater(By name ...
Boats In A Fog (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,The exuberant voices of music,Have charm for children but lack ...
In August (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
When August days are hot an' dry, When burning copper is the sky, I 'd rather fish than feast or fly In airy ...
The Rule Of Life Expanded (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
IF thou wouldst live unruffled by care,Let not the past torment thee e'er;If any loss thou hast to rue,Act as ...
Thieves’ Kitchen (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
GOOD roaring pistol-boys, brave lads of gold,Good roistering easy maids, blown cock-a-hoopOn floods of tavern-steam, I greet you! DrunkWith wild ...
A Sing-Song (Jessie Pope Poems)
(The Kaiser expressed a hope that the British might meet his Bavarians only once. Fifteen hundred Bavarians have been captured ...
A Memory (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Here, while the loom of Winter weavesThe shroud of flowers and fountains,I think of thee and summer evesAmong the Northern ...
An Occasional Imitation Of A Modern Author Upon The Game Of Chess (John Denham Poems)
A tablet stood of that abstersive tree, Where Aethiop's swarthy bird did build her nest;Inlaid it was with Libyan ivory, Drawn from ...
Comrades in Arms-Lets (Jessie Pope Poems)
NOT theirs the popular uniformThat takes the feminine heart by storm,And wins soft glances, shy or warm,The perquisites of pluck.But ...
The Hawk (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
This pirate of the over sea,No black-hulled brig he sails,No black flag at the mizzen-peakFlaunts death-heads to the gales. Yet fiercer ...
Ditty In Imitation of the Spanish Entre Tanto Que L’Avril (Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury Poems)
Now that the April of your youth adornsThe garden of your face;Now that for you each knowing lover mourns,And all ...
Will Nobody Marry Me? (George Pope Morris Poems)
Heigh-ho! for a husband!--Heigh-ho! There's danger in longer delay!Shall I never again have a beau? Will nobody marry me, pray!I begin to ...
Inscriptions: IV: O Youths And Virgins (Mark Akenside Poems)
O youths and virgins: o declining eld:O pale misfortune's slaves: o ye who dwellUnknown with humble quiet; ye who waitIn ...
There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind (Thomas Ford Poems)
There is a lady sweet and kind,Was never face so pleas'd my mind;I did but see her passing by,And yet ...
December (John Clare Poems)
While snow the window-panes bedim,The fire curls up a sunny charm,Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim,The flowering ale is set ...
The Widow (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
HOW dreary is winter to me,Alone all its rigours I bear;The hand that should shield me lies low;I've none in ...
Play The Game (Jessie Pope Poems)
Twenty-Two stalwarts in stripes and shortsKicking a ball along,Set in a square of leather-lunged sportsTwenty-two thousand strong,Some of them shabby, ...
The Harp. Addressed To Clara (John Anster Poems)
Clara, hast thou not often seen, and smiled,A rosy child,Deeming that none were near,Touch, with a trembling hand,Some fine--toned instrument,Then ...
Fortune’s Statue (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
She's mistress of all:Rule of this earthTo her is entrusted;Fortune she's called.But for her, Maia's son, whomShe grants gifts, be ...
Letter In Verse (John Clare Poems)
Like boys that run behind the loaded wainFor the mere joy of riding back again,When summer from the meadow carts ...
The Dead Butterfly (Peter John Allan Poems)
Farewell, poor little winged flower, Thy joyous life is o'er;Thy sisters of the meadow now Shall welcome thee no more;Those pinions that ...
The King’s Hunt is up (William Gray Poems)
The hunt is up, the hunt is up,And it is well nigh day;And Harry our king is gone hunting,To bring ...
But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance (William Blake Poems)
But in the Wine-presses the human grapes sing not nor dance:They howl and writhe in shoals of torment, in fierce ...
Winter (Maude E Shenk Poems)
Don't you love the winter,Sprightly time of ice and snow,When the lakes are always frozen,And the north winds briskly blow?For ...