A Broadway Idyl (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
For hours I stood upon The Bridge,1Which looms like a volcanic ridge,Above a scathing fire below.A flaming crater of burning ...
Tragedy Poems (142 Poems)
Fireflies (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
My fancies are fireflies, -Specks of living lighttwinkling in the dark.he voice of wayside pansies,that do not attract the careless ...
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 ...
Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book III (John Gay Poems)
Of Walking the Streets by Night.O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,And traverse o'er the wide ethereal roads,Celestial queen, put ...
Psychological Warfare (Henry Reed Poems)
This above all remember: they will be very brave men,And you will be facing them. You must not despise them.I ...
An Ode For The Fourth Of July (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Entranced I saw a vision in the cloudThat loitered dreaming in yon sunset sky,Full of fair shapes, half creatures of ...
The Poe-et’s Nightmare (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
A FA FableLuxus tumultus semper causa est.Lucullus Languish, student of the skies,And connoisseur of rarebits and mince pies,A bard by ...
Retaliation: (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
Of old, when Scarron his companions invited, Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united; If our landlord supplies us ...
Pan Beniowski – Final Part Of Canto Five (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
Surging like a vast current of salmon or sheatfish,Coiling up and down like an iron serpentThat rears now its torso, ...
King Stephen (John Keats Poems)
A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDYACT I.SCENE I. Field of Battle.Alarum. Enter King STEPHEN, Knights, and Soldiers.Stephen. If shame can on ...
Wilfred Owen – 114 years and beyond (Old Poetry Poems)
18th March celebrates the birth of a fine poet and soldier Wilfred OwenMarch 18th celebrates the birthday of a man. ...
The Viceroy. A Ballad. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Tune — "Lady Isabella's Tragedy." or "The Stepmother's cruelty."Of Nero, tyrant, petty king,Who heretofore did reignIn famed Hibernia, I will ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 04 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XXXIThus spake the nymph, yet spake but to the wind,She could not alter his well-settled thought;O miracle! O strife of ...
The Good Samaritan (Henry Lawson Poems)
He comes from out the ages dim- The good Samaritan;I somehow never pictured him A fat and jolly man;But one who'd little ...
To Melancholy (Janetta Philipps Poems)
When life's first dawn breaks on the raptured view,And smiles each various scene so bright and new,The Passions, thronging round ...
The Eutawville Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
(July, 1904)In the State of "Old Palmetto," from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses ...
Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
Processionals (John Oxenham Poems)
NORTHWe come from the gloom of the shadowy trail Out away on the fringe of the Night,Where no man could tell, ...
Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick (Samuel Johnson Poems)
1 When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes2 First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespear rose;3 Each change of many-colour'd life ...
Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain (KotaroTakamura Poems)
(O mata fukitsunoru ame kaze.)O another deluge of wind and rain.Collar turned up, getting drenched in this splashing rain,and looking ...
Job (Rachel Korn Poems)
As if heaven openedin a downpour of scabs and cursesthat washed my blessings offand made me stand before you naked.Loneliness ...
Mauley (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
THE BRAVE FERRY-MAN[NOTE.--The great Sioux massacre in Minnesota commenced at the Agencyvillage, on the Minnesota River, early in the morning ...
A Relative and an Absolute (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
It has been cool so far for December, but of course the colddoesn't last long down here. The Bible is ...
Before A Statue Of Buddha (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O Buddha, of the mystic smileAnd downcast, dreamful eyes,To whom unnumbered sacred shrinesAnd gilded statues rise,Whose fanes are filled with ...
Autumn-Time (Hattie Howard Poems)
Like music heard in mellow chime, The charm of her transforming time Upon my senses steals As softly as from sunny walls, In day's ...
Contemplation Of The Sword (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,formerly used to ...
Song Of A Ship (John Joy Bell Poems)
The love and the hate of the sea, The kiss and the curse of the wind For years have been murmured and ...
To my Friend Mr. Motteux, on His Tragedy Called Beauty in Distress, Published in 1698 (John Henry Dryden Poems)
'Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age,As damns not only poets, but the stage.That sacred art, by ...
The Golden Mile-Stone. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Leafless are the trees; their purple branchesSpread themselves abroad, like reefs of coral, Rising silentIn the Red Sea of the winter ...
Elegy of Fortinbras (Zbigniew Herbert Poems)
To C. M.Now that we're alone we can talk prince man to manthough you lie on the stairs and see ...