Unexpressed (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
DEEP in my heart that aches with the repression,And strives with plenitude of bitter pain,There lives a thought that clamors ...
Poems about clamors (21 Poems)
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-First (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
All night funereal darkness pall'd the earth; The worn--out soldiers slumbered heavily: The anxious chiefs themselves, in grave--like sleep, Till ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twelfth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Accurs?d to the Medes, as to himself, That fatal hour when,--mad with fiercest hate,-- His private wrong on one man ...
The Ruling Thought (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
Most sweet, most powerful, Controller of my inmost soul; The terrible, yet precious gift Of heaven, companion kind Of all ...
The World Runs Round (Edward Rowland Sill Poems)
THE world runs round, And the world runs well; And at heaven's bound, Weaving what the hours shall tell Of ...
The Perpetual Wooing (Eugene Field Poems)
The dull world clamors at my feet And asks my hand and helping sweet; And wonders when the time shall ...
Sung For Norway’s Riflemen (Bjornstjerne Bjornson Poems)
Fly the banner, fly the banner!For our freedom fight!'Neath the banner, 'neath the banner,Riflemen unite!Graybeard in the StortingGives his vote ...
Sonnet CXCI: “Absence from thee is something worse than death” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Absence from thee is something worse than death; For to the heart that slumbers in the shroud, What are the ...
Sonnet CCXXXVII: “To hold a station on the trembling earth” (George Henry Boker Poems)
To hold a station on the trembling earth, To weary time with looking at our names-- This is the lust ...
The Doomed-regar (Emily Dickinson Poems)
294The Doomed-regard the SunriseWith different Delight-Because-when next it burns abroadThey doubt to witness it-The Man-to die-tomorrow-Harks for the Meadow Bird-Because ...
Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
The Doomed — regard the Sunrise (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Doomed -- regard the Sunrise With different Delight -- Because -- when next it burns abroad They doubt to ...
Freedom (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. ...
M’Fingal – Canto III (John Trumbull Poems)
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
The Triumph Of Woman (Robert Southey Poems)
Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o'er distant lands ...
Still (Wislawa Szymborska Poems)
In sealed box cars travel names across the land, and how far they will travel so, and will they ever ...
Poems On The Slave Trade – Sonnet II (Robert Southey Poems)
Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair, And to the deaf sea pour thy frantic cries? Before ...
Have Me (Carl Sandburg Poems)
HAVE me in the blue and the sun. Have me on the open sea and the mountains. When I go ...
Lollingdon Downs VIII (John Masefield Poems)
THE Kings go by with jewled crowns; Their horses gleam, their banners shake, their spears are many. The sack of ...