The Pit (Ivan Goran Kovacic Poems)
BLOOD is my daylight, and darkness too. Blessing of night has been gouged from my cheeks Bearing with it my more lucky ...
Poems about captors (18 Poems)
The Death Of President Lincoln (Joseph Furphy Poems)
(A Romance.)December 11th, 1867.The fleecy clouds had passed awayBefore the bright approach of day,And now the morning's radiance shinesUpon an ...
Zira: In Captivity (Laurence Hope Poems)
Love me a little, Lord, or let me go,I am so weary walking to and froThrough all your lonely halls ...
As red men die (Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poems)
Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?A taunt more galling than the Huron's hiss?He--proud and scornful, he--who laughed ...
The Performance (James Dickey Poems)
The last time I saw Donald ArmstrongHe was staggering oddly off into the sun,Going down, off the Philippine Islands.I let ...
Fort Dearborn (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Fort Dearborn is a strong and goodly place,And o'er the frontier looks with valiant faceTo greet the hostile tread of ...
Cadet Grey – Canto III (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IWhere the sun sinks through leagues of arid sky, Where the sun dies o'er leagues of arid plain,Where the dead ...
The Horse Thief (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"I By the ditch in the hollow stands the tree, A cottonwood with deeply wrinkled bark About its mighty trunk, ...
Sacred Song Of Ancient Mexicans – II. (Daniel Garrison Brinton Poems)
_Uitznaoac yautl icuic._ 1. Ahuia tlacochcalco notequioa ayayui nocaquia tlacatl, yanechyapinauia, ayaca nomati, nitetzauiztli, auia, ayaca nomati niya,yautla, aquitoloc tlacochcalco ...
The Deodand (Anthony Hecht Poems)
What are these women up to? They've gone and strung Drapes over the windows, cutting out light And the slightest ...
Plaint Of The Missouri ‘Coon In The Berlin Zoological Gardens (Eugene Field Poems)
Friend, by the way you hump yourself you're from the States, I know, And born in old Mizzourah, where the ...
The Maids of the Mountains (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
In the wild Weddin Mountains there live two young damesKate O'Meally, Bet Mayhew are their pretty names;These maids of the ...
Fuentes D’Onor (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Squadron on squadron came galloping on, Furiously charging, and sweeping the field,The squares were hard pressed and the cavalry ...
For Their Captors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Part of accepting of settling in of living in our exile in this foreign land To pray for the rulers ...
Alone (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
All alone, against his captors a shepherd without his flock submitting himself to their commands going with them, alone to ...
The Shadow of Desertion (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the hands of his captors, in the dark of night no one beside him, alone, from their sight aware ...
The Obesion (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
What He Thought (Heather McHugh Poems)
We were supposed to do a job in Italy and, full of our feeling for ourselves (our sense of being ...