Cadet Grey – Canto II (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
Poems about ascetic (21 Poems)
A Reading Of Life–The Test Of Manhood (George Meredith Poems)
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,An army issues out of wilderness,With battle plucking round its ragged flanks;Obstruction in ...
At Delphi (Alfred Austin Poems)
I Apollo! Apollo! Apollo!II Where hast thou, Apollo, gone? I have wandered on and on, Through the shaggy Dorian gorges, ...
The Legend Of St. Regimund. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
St. Regimund, e'er he became a saint,Was much imbued with vulgar earthly taint;E'er he renounced the honors of a KnightAnd ...
The Minglers (C J Dennis Poems)
A sight that gives me much distress Is George without his trousers,Garbed, scantily, in bathing dress Proscribed by saintly Wowsers,And ...
A Mediaeval Romance (Frank Sidgwick Poems)
Johannes, son of Gilbert, born At Warren Magna, com. Wigorn., Till one-and-twenty simple John, Cast his eyes on Alison ; ...
Wool-Gatheri (George Arnold Poems)
IA pleasant golden light fills all the chamber where I sit,the amber curtains close are drawn, and shadows o'er then ...
A Romance In Real (Academic) Life (E W Bowling Poems)
By the waters of Cam, as the shades were descending, A Fellow sat moaning his desolate lot; From his ...
Kinchinjunga (Cale Young Rice Poems)
Next To Everest Highest Of MountainsO white priest of Eternity, aroundWhose lofty summit veiling clouds ariseOf the earth's immemorial sacrificeTo ...
At Fountains (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
1539-1862Blest hour, as on green happy slopes I lie, Gray walls around and high,While long-ranged arches lessen on the view, ...
Earth’s Question (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
TO lead a life divine? This is the question which, with upward strife, Earth to herself proposes, asking ever, "How ...
The Key (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"He turned in at the gate and asked a drink;Shabby, but neat of garment. His white hatDrooped over friendly eyes; ...
doughnut denial (Rg Gregory Poem)
(an ascetic poem for karen's birthday) fancy having a birthday on a thursday when you do the buying of the ...
a reader’s de profundis (Rg Gregory Poems)
in my reading of the moment i have learned the figure next to christ in da vinci's last supper (a ...
Besides the Autumn poets sing (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Besides the Autumn poets sing A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of ...
Dangerous Things (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
Said Myrtias (a Syrian student in Alexandria; in the reign of Augustus Constans and Augustus Constantius; in part a pagan, ...
Lover’s Gifts LXX: Take Back Your Coins (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Take back your coins, King's Councillor. I am of those women you sent to the forest shrine to decoy the ...
The Gardener LXXV: At Midnight (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
At midnight the would-be ascetic announced: "This is the time to give up my home and seek for God. Ah, ...
The Gardener XLIII: No, My Friends (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
No, my friends, I shall never be an ascetic, whatever you may say. I shall never be and ascetic if ...
The Robing of the King (George William Russell Poems)
ON the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays of gold, And its shadowy fleece above us waves the forest ...
Jacob Godbey (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
How did you feel, you libertarians, Who spent your talents rallying noble reasons Around the saloon, as if Liberty Was ...