Orlando Furioso Canto 4 (Ludovico Ariosto Poems)
ARGUMENTThe old Atlantes suffers fatal wreck,Foiled by the ring, and young Rogero freed,Who soars in air till he appears a ...
Poems about bested (18 Poems)
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!How little you bestedOr fill the fixed mind with all your ...
Tugg Martin (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I. Tugg Martin's tough.--No doubt o' that! And down there at The town he come from word's bin sent Advisin' this-here Settle-ment To kindo' _humor_ ...
Song of the Old Bullock-Driv (Henry Lawson Poems)
Far back in the days when the blacks used to ramble In long single file 'neath the evergreen tree,The wool-teams in ...
The Persevering Tortoise And The Pretentious Hare (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Once a turtle, finding plenty In seclusion to bewitch, Lived a dolce far niente Kind of life within a ditch; Rivers had no charm ...
An Elegy Upon James Therburn, In Chatto (James Thomson Poems)
Now, Chatto, you're a dreary place,Pale sorrow broods on ilka face;Therburn has run his race.And now, and now, ah me, ...
The Vision: (Katia: Easter Sunday, 1916) (Katharine Tynan Poems)
She had a vision in the dark Ere the first lark from nest took flight;She saw her own son from fierce ...
A Parable (Friedrich Ruckert Poems)
In Syria walked a man one day And led a camel on the way. A sudden wildness seized the beast, ...
Six 14-Line Poems (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
I. PEACE to the odalisque, the facile slave, Whose unrespective love rewards the brave, Or cherishes the coward; she who ...
Songs of the Autumn Days (George MacDonald Poems)
I.We bore him through the golden land,One early harvest morn;The corn stood ripe on either hand—He knew all about the ...
Shouting for a Camel (A B Banjo Paterson Poems)
It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator,Who was going down the township just to make a bit o' ...
Oh Love, on thee a burden has been laid (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
Oh Love, on thee a burden has been laid, Now ...
A Lancashire Sunset (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
It is the close of day:Over the hill and townThe sun goes down:Clearly from hillside fields with evening grayI hear ...
Opportunity (Edward Rowland Sill Poems)
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:— There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath ...
Consciousness Of Our Return (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...
An Attempt At Jealousy (Craig Raine Poems)
So how is life with your new bloke? Simpler, I bet. Just one stroke of his quivering oar and the ...
“Shouting” for a Camel (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator, Who was going down the township just to make a bit ...
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...