Birdofredum Sawin; Esq., To Mr. Hosea Biglow (2) (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I hed it on my min' las' time, when I to write ye started,To tech the leadin' featurs o' my ...
Poems about commissions (18 Poems)
The Fable Of Midas (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Midas, we are in story told,Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold:He chipp'd his bread; the pieces roundGlitter'd like spangles ...
The Star (Henry Vaughan Poems)
. Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow, And wind and curl, and wink ...
Daedalus in Sicily (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
All his life he was building something, inventing something.Now, for a Cretan queen, an artificial heifer,so as to cuckold the ...
Dream Song 125:” Bards freezing, naked, up to the neck in water” (John Berryman Poems)
Bards freezing, naked, up to the neck in water,wholly in dark, time limited, different frominitiations now:the class in writing, clothed ...
Blue Beard (Clara Doty Bates Poems)
Once on a time there was a man so hideous and ugly That little children shrank and tried to ...
The History Of Joseph: A Poem In Ten Books. Book VIII. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
But now Sabrina's guilty fire returns, Her bosom with the raging passion burns: She with a female tenderness relents, And ...
Old Town Types No. 18 – Johnny Nock (C J Dennis Poems)
Johnny Nock, the auctioneer, golden-bearded, ever gay,Spread about him great good cheer in his prosperous heyday; Familiar sight on district ...
Lives (Arthur Rimbaud Poems)
I.O the enormous avenues of the Holy Land, the temple terraces! What has become of the Brahman who explained the ...
The Palace And The Colliery (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
WHEN within that silken-curtained room, The dear Husband of our State lay dying, All the land was shrouded with that ...
History of the Victors, No More (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It has been said that history isn't written by who was in the right; but by who was left, after ...
A Dialogue between Old England and New (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
Dream Song 125: Bards freezing, naked, up to the neck in water (John Berryman Poem)
Bards freezing, naked, up to the neck in water, wholly in dark, time limited, different from initiations now: the class ...
Tunbridge Wells (John Wilmot Poems)
At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head From Thetis' lap, I raised myself from bed, And mounting steed, ...
M’Fingal – Canto IV (John Trumbull Poems)
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
The Star (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1 Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below 2 Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow, 3 And wind ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...