The Whipping (Robert Hayden Poem)
The old woman across the way is whipping the boy again and shouting to the neighborhood her goodness and his ...
Poems about avengèd (21 Poems)
Before the Guard (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Standing watch A large flag, the stars and stripes hanging heavy, sad, the sun through the thin, worn fabric Hanging ...
Terror (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Terror found us today Asleep, unaware Complacent We were Invincible Immune The Atlantic The Pacific Firewalls, protectors No longer Ostrich ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill (Lord Byron Poem)
And thou wert sad-yet I was not with thee! And thou wert sick, and yet I was not near; Methought ...
209. Song-M’Pherson’s Farewell (Robert Burns Poems)
FAREWELL, ye dungeons dark and strong, The wretch's destinie! M'Pherson's time will not be long On yonder gallows-tree. Chorus.-Sae rantingly, ...
Translations: Dante – Inferno, Canto XXVI (Alan Seeger Poems)
Florence, rejoice! For thou o'er land and sea So spread'st thy pinions that the fame of thee Hath reached no ...
The Blood-Red Fourragere (Robert William Service Poems)
What was the blackest sight to me Of all that campaign? A naked woman tied to a tree With jagged ...
The Battle of Omdurman (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me And King in praise of the gallant British Armie, That behaved ...
Webster Ford (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M'Grew Cried, "There's a ghost," and ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Ollie McGee (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Have you seen walking through the village A man with downcast eyes and haggard face? That is my husband who, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Epitaphs For Two Players (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...