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The Overland Mail (Rudyard Kipling Poem)

(Foot-Service to the Hills) In the name of the Empress of India, make way, O Lords of the Jungle, wherever ...

Occupational Hazard (Sophie Hannah Poem)

He has slept with accountants and brokers, With a cowgirl (well, someone from Healds). He has slept with non-smokers and ...

peach-power (Rg Gregory Poem)

peaches exude this thrall - reminders of those luscious whereabouts that lips best find their precious sips to cry let ...

equanimity (Rg Gregory Poem)

october stops the pretence that somehow summer should still be loitering around it walks through the garden hanging the spiders ...

CELEBRITY. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)

ON bridges small and bridges great Stands Nepomucks in ev'ry state, Of ...

The Deserted Village (Oliver Goldsmith Poem)

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...

The Trial by Existence (Robert Frost Poem)

Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...

Saadi (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...

Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)

All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...

The pungent atom in the Air (Emily Dickinson Poem)

The pungent atom in the Air Admits of no debate -- All that is named of Summer Days Relinquished our ...

Because that you are going (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track -- Because that ...

Britannia’s Pastorals (William Browne Poems)

Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...

The Wife’s Will (Charlotte Bronte Poems)

SIT stilla worda breath may break (As light airs stir a sleeping lake,) The glassy calm that soothes my woes, ...

Prologue (Anne Bradstreet Poem)

1 To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings, 2 Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun, 3 For my mean ...

Dream On (James Tate Poems)

Some people go their whole lives without ever writing a single poem. Extraordinary people who don't hesitate to cut somebody's ...

Love In The Asylum (Dylan Thomas Poems)

A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as ...

The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)

He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...

Weary Will (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)

The strongest creature for his size But least equipped for combat That dwells beneath Australian skies Is Weary Will the ...

Lament for Zenocrate (Christopher Morley Poems)

Black is the beauty of the brightest day, The golden belle of heaven's eternal fire, That danced with glory on ...

Lament for Zenocrate (Christopher Marlowe Poems)