Walking in Other Footsteps (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Other faiths, our traditions understanding them, spending time with them, lessons we can all learn we are walking, in their ...
Poems about compare (39 Poems)
With brutus in st. jo (Eugene Field Poem)
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
The two little skeezucks (Eugene Field Poem)
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked ...
The delectable ballad of the waller lot (Eugene Field Poem)
Up yonder in Buena Park There is a famous spot, In legend and in history Yclept the Waller Lot. There ...
A proper trewe idyll of camelot (Eugene Field Poem)
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a ...
The Muleteer (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
In Honour of the City of London (William Dunbar Poem)
LONDON, thou art of townes A per se. Soveraign of cities, seemliest in sight, Of high renoun, riches and royaltie; ...
Sonnet X: To Nothing Fitter (Michael Drayton Poem)
To nothing fitter can I thee compare Than to the son of some rich penny-father, Who, having now brought on ...
Sonnet LX: Define My Weal (Michael Drayton Poem)
Define my weal, and tell the joys of Heav'n; Express my woes, and show the pains of Hell; Declare what ...
Sirena (Michael Drayton Poem)
NEAR to the silver Trent SIRENA dwelleth; She to whom Nature lent All that excelleth; By which the Muses late ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
America (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I love thine inland seas, Thy groves of giant trees, Thy rolling plains; Thy rivers' mighty sweep, Thy mystic canyons ...
Our little secrets slink away — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Our little secrets slink away -- Beside God's shall not tell -- He kept his word a Trillion years And ...
For Death — or rather (Emily Dickinson Poem)
For Death -- or rather For the Things 'twould buy -- This -- put away Life's Opportunity -- The Things ...
A Flower will not trouble her, it has so small a Foot, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Flower will not trouble her, it has so small a Foot, And yet if you compare the Lasts, Hers ...
There is a June when Corn is cut (Emily Dickinson Poem)
There is a June when Corn is cut And Roses in the Seed -- A Summer briefer than the first ...
I’m “wife” — I’ve finished that (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I'm "wife" -- I've finished that -- That other state -- I'm Czar -- I'm "Woman" now -- It's safer ...
Jack’s Legacy (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
The critic gushed and said, "Just like Jack, so raw, I never thought to see another writer just like Kerouac!" ...
To Kathleen, after Neruda (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
As the salmon seeks its mother gravel through the lying ions of the sea, I seek you. Without your body ...
Contentment (William Cowper Poem)
(Phillipians, iv.11) Fierce passions discompose the mind, As tempests vex the sea, But calm, content and peace we find, When, ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Suicide’s Argument (Samuel Coleridge Poems)
Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no No question was asked me--it could not be ...
Christmas (John Betjeman Poem)
The bells of waiting Advent ring, The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-oil light across the night Has caught ...
In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
Contemplations (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
We May Live Together (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
To My Dear And Loving Husband (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...