Probatur Aliter (Jonathan Swift Poems)
A long-ear'd beast, and a field-house for cattle,Among the coals doth often rattle.A long-ear'd beast, a bird that prates,The bridegrooms' ...
Poems about bridegrooms (15 Poems)
Warbrides (Nina Murdoch Poems)
There has been wrong done since the world began.That young men should go out and die in war,And lie face ...
Fodder For Cannon (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
Bodies glad, erect,Beautiful with youth,Life's elect,Nature's truth,Marching host on host,Those bright, unblemished ones,Manhood's boast,Feed them to the guns.Hearts and brains ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto II (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
The Kalevala – Rune IV (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE FATE OF AINO.When the night had passed, the maiden,Sister fair of Youkahainen,Hastened early to the forest,Birchen shoots for brooms ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXX (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE FROST-FIEND.Lemminkainen, reckless minstrel,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,Hastens as the dawn is breaking,At the dawning of the morning,To the resting-place of vessels,To ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet VI (Anonymous Asian Poems)
He washed out his marred hair and cleaned up his equipment(?), shaking out his locks down over his back,throwing off ...
The Weakling (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
I AM a weakling. God, who made The still, strong man, made also me. The God who ...
To My Fancie Upon Theophila (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Fly, Fancie, Beauties arched Brow, Darts, wing'd with Fire, thence sparkling flow. From Flash of Lightning Eye--balls turn; Contracted Beams ...
Looking Death In The face (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
AY, in thy face, old fellow! Now's the time. The Black Sea wind flaps my tent-roof, nor wakes These lads ...
Out of Horace. Carm. Lib. 3. Od.11 (Daniel Baker Poems)
Amphion e'en hard Stones did move) Appease the stubborn Anger of my Love, And move her harder Heart. And thou, ...
The Song of Seven Cities (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute from far. Ivory their outposts were--the ...
The Argument Of His Book (Robert Herrick Poem)
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers, Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers. I sing of May-poles, ...
Passage to India. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
Prothalamion (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did ...