The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Poems about babylon (31 Poems)
A School Song (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"Let us now praise famous men"-- Men of little showing-- For their work continueth, And their work continueth, Broad and ...
The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Now the New Year, reviving last Year's Debt, The Thoughtful Fisher casteth wide his Net; So I with begging Dish ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
God’s Funeral (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I I saw a slowly-stepping train -- Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar -- Following in files ...
Babylon (Robert Graves Poem)
The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his. Truth and Reason show but dim, And all's poetry ...
The Playground of Life XIX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
One hour devoted to the pursuit of Beauty And Love is worth a full century of glory Given by the ...
Song of Man XXV (Khalil Gibran Poem)
I was here from the moment of the Beginning, and here I am still. And I shall remain here until ...
A Poet’s Voice XV (Khalil Gibran Poems)
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
Speaking to the Captives (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the land of Babylon away from their homes a message for the people God speaking to the captives Living ...
Anger or Acceptance (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
An exile in Babylon, first of the leaders, to avoid rebellion, later all of the people. A psalm of anger, ...
Not the Tabernacle (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not the tent. the brick, the stone, the wood, a foundation, walls, maybe even plumbing, if we bring the story ...
Praying for Babylon (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A stark, surprising message from the prophet this day, to settle down and live, within captivity; the foreign land to ...
Hi-spy (Eugene Field Poem)
Strange that the city thoroughfare, Noisy and bustling all the day, Should with the night renounce its care, And lend ...
Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
The Ancient World (Mark Doty Poem)
Today the Masons are auctioning their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, gemmed and ostrich-plumed, and operetta costumes labeled inside ...
The Ships of Yule (Bliss Carman Poem)
When I was just a little boy, Before I went to school, I had a fleet of forty sail I ...
Lepanto (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Dance Me To The End Of Love (Leonard Cohen Poem)
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift ...
Journey West (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
I said goodbye to Beale Street one year, eyes hurting from the painful contrast of stark white on black - ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Questions From A Worker Who Reads (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings ...
Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte (Lord Byron Poem)
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
The Burglar Of Babylon (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
Darling Daughter of Babylon (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Too soon you wearied of our tears. And then you danced with spangled feet, Leading Belshazzar's chattering court A-tinkling through ...
On the Building of Springfield (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Let not our town be large, remembering That little Athens was the Muses' home, That Oxford rules the heart of ...