Little Kate (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
Beside me, in the golden light That slants upon the floor, She twines the many-colored silks Her dimpled fingers o'er; Uplifting now and then ...
Woman Poems (4503 Poems)
Mosslump’s Song (John Hartley Poems)
Mistress Moore is Johnny's wife, An' Johnny is a druffen sot; He spends th' best portion ov his life I'th beershop wi' a ...
The Return Journey (Jorge Carerra Andrade Poems)
My life was a geographyI surveyed over and over again,a book of maps or dreams.In America I awakened.Were these perhaps ...
A Cradle Song, The Arbor of Amorous Devices, 1593-4 (Nicholas Breton Poems)
COME little babe, come silly soul,Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,Born as I doubt to all our dole,And to thyself ...
For The Burns Centennial Celebration (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
JANUARY 25, 1859His birthday.--Nay, we need not speakThe name each heart is beating,--Each glistening eye and flushing cheekIn light and ...
A child said, What is the grass? (Walt Whitman Poems)
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
Credhe’s Complaint At The Battle Of The White Strand (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
And Credhe came to where her man was, and she keened him and criedover him, and she made this complaint: The ...
Its True (John Hartley Poems)
Ther's things i'plenty aw despise;-- False pride an wild ambition;Tho' ivvery man should strive to rise, An better his condition.Aw hate a ...
Homage to Hieronymus Bosch (Thomas MacGreevy Poems)
A woman with no face walked into the light;A boy, in a brown-tree norfolk suit,Holding onWithout handsTo her seeming skirt.She ...
Open Table (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
MANY a guest I'd see to-day,Met to taste my dishes!Food in plenty is prepar'd,Birds, and game, and fishes.Invitations all have ...
Life’s Changes (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
A fair young girl was to the altar ledBy him she loved, the chosen of her heart;And words of solemn ...
The Light-Keeper (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
For years I've seen the frothy lines go thund'rin' down the shore;For years the surge has tossed its kelp and ...
The Rowing-Song Of King Atli (Nora Jane Hopper Chesson Poems)
Row, row, through the darkling sea—One king's daughter is waiting me:Her hair is unbound till I come to land,And gather ...
The Fortune Teller (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
She sat with fear in her eyesContemplating the upturned cupShe said "Do not be sad, my sonYou are destined to ...
Raftery’s Praise Of Mary Hynes (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
Going to Mass by the will of God, the day came wet and the wind rose;I met Mary Hynes at ...
Take Heart! (John Hartley Poems)
Roughest roads, we often find, Lead us on to th' nicest places;Kindest hearts oft hide behind Some o'th' plainest-lukkin faces.Flaars whose colors ...
My Lady Of Whims (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
(A medieval Spanish legend slanderously setting forth the utter unreason of woman.)ROMAQUIA sat and wept herLace mantilla full of tears.King ...
Her My Body (Bob Hicok Poems)
about the left nippleof the woman in the bathroom.She is drying her hair, the womanwhose left nipple is sore.We looked ...
The Hair (Jared Barhite Poems)
Since the days of primal story Of Eden's happy pair, A woman's greatest glory Is her glossy flowing hair; It is a safe criterion By ...
A Sweet Lullaby (Nicholas Breton Poems)
Come, little babe; come, silly soul,Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,Born, as I doubt, to all our doleAnd to thyself ...
Street Light (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
THE shine of many city streets Confuses any countryman; It flickers here and flashes there, It goes as soon as it began, It beckons ...
The Gift of Tritemius (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Tritemius of Herbipolis, one day,While kneeling at the altar's foot to pray,Alone with God, as was his pious choice,Heard from ...
Madam Hannah Lathrop, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died in Norwich, Connecticut, January 18th, 1862, aged 92.Had I an artist's pencil, I might sketchHer as she was, in ...
Fortune Of War (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
NOUGHT more accursed in war I knowThan getting off scot-free;Inured to danger, on we goIn constant victory;We first unpack, then ...
To The Countess Of Bedford I (John Donne Poems)
MADAM-Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right ; By these we reach divinity, that's you ;Their loves, who have ...
Loneliness Of Cities (Jorge Carerra Andrade Poems)
Without knowing my number,enclosed by walls and borders,I walk around with a prisoner's moonand perpetual shadow chained to my ankle.Living ...
Woman’s Help (Hattie Howard Poems)
Sometimes I long to write an ode And magnify his name, The man of honor, on the road To opulence and fame, On whom ...
A Melancholy Lover’s Farewell To His Mistress (Joanna Baillie Poems)
DEAR Phillis, all my hopes are o'erAnd I shall see thy face no more.Since every secret wish is vain,I will ...
Tamara (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
Where waves of the Terek are waltzing In Dariel's wickedest pass,There rises from bleakest of storm crags An ancient grey towering mass.In ...
The Reasons (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
THEY sat before a dugoutIn the unfamiliar quiet of silenced guns.And one said:"Now that it's overWhat about a bit of ...