The Iliad: Book 7 (Homer Poems)
With these words Hector passed through the gates, and his brotherAlexandrus with him, both eager for the fray. As when ...
Poems about challenger (11 Poems)
Eclogue 3: Menalcas Daemoetas Palaemon (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
MENALCASWho owns the flock, Damoetas? Meliboeus?DAMOETASNay, they are Aegon's sheep, of late by himCommitted to my care.MENALCAS O every wayUnhappy sheep, ...
Peter Rugg the Bostonian (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
IThe mare is pawing by the oak,The chaise is cool and wideFor Peter Rugg the BostonianWith his little son beside;The ...
The Roll Of The Kettledrum; Or, The Lay Of The Last Charger (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler ...
The Revolution (George Meredith Poems)
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
The Swans (Clifford Dyment Poems)
Midstream they met. Challenger and champion,They fought a war for honourFierce, sharp, but with no honour:Each had a simple aim ...
Baby Tortoise (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
You know what it is to be born alone, Baby tortoise! The first day to heave your feet little by ...
Full Moon (Robert Hayden Poem)
No longer throne of a goddess to whom we pray, no longer the bubble house of childhood's tumbling Mother Goose ...
As I woke this morning (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As I woke this morning, I remembered I remembered that day, the exact moment when I saw the towers, innocence ...
Uncomfortable Names (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Other names from other scripture bended with the letter to the Colossians revealing a more human picture the man who ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...