Street Light (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
THE shine of many city streets Confuses any countryman; It flickers here and flashes there, It goes as soon as it began, It beckons ...
Poems about countryman (21 Poems)
Humility (McDonald Clarke Poems)
Do you call me poor, you slugger,Won't posterity let me hug her,And won't she hug me back again?Isn't my penThe ...
The Sphinx (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Yellowish-grey sand, soft at the top, hard, grating below… sand withoutend, where-ever one looks.And above this sandy desert, above this ...
Dear Lithuanian (Juozas Tysliava Poems)
My countryman, dear LithuanianBrought up in meadows and in leafy dales,To lead a new life is my invitation,A life loud ...
The Countryman Who Sought His Calf (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A COUNTRYMAN, one day, his calf had lost,And, seeking it, a neighbouring forest crossed;The tallest tree that in the district ...
Family Life (Paul Colinet Poems)
An uncle smokes a pipe, blows smoke, knows his target.An abbot traces a lion, builds a cardboard cone.The oldest child ...
Charades (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
I.She stood at Greenwich, motionless amid The ever-shifting crowd of passengers.I marked a big tear quivering on the lid Of ...
John Smith (Eugene Field Poems)
To-day I strayed in Charing Cross as wretched as could be With thinking of my home and friends across the ...
Abraham Lincoln (Charles Monroe Dickinson Poems)
If any one hath doubt or fear ...
The Lord of the Valley (George J Whyte Melville Poems)
Hunters are fretting, and hacks in a lather, Sportsmen arriving from left and from right; Bridle-roads bringing them, see how ...
Ajax’ Kindred’s Soliloquy. In Africa. (Frank Barbour Coffin Poems)
The thoughts of the future doth puzzle my mind, And O'how I shudder at flitting of time; It seems that ...
The Poet’s Euthanasia (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
November: 1674Cloked in gray threadbare poverty, and blind,Age-weak, and desolate, and beloved of God;High-heartedness to long repulse resign'd,Yet bating not ...
A Christmas Ghost Story. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
South of the Line, inland from far Durban, A mouldering soldier lies--your countryman. Awry and doubled up are his gray ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
The Countryman Who Sought His Calf (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
A COUNTRYMAN, one day, his calf had lost, And, seeking it, a neighbouring forest crossed; The tallest tree that in ...
How fits his Umber Coat (Emily Dickinson Poem)
How fits his Umber Coat The Tailor of the Nut? Combined without a seam Like Raiment of a Dream -- ...
Stanzas Composed During A Thunderstorm (Lord Byron Poem)
Chill and mirk is the nightly blast, Where Pindus' mountains rise, And angry clouds are pouring fast The vengeance of ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
The Phases Of The Moon (William Butler Yeats Poems)
An old man cocked his car upon a bridge; He and his friend, their faces to the South, Had trod ...
Signior Dildo (John Wilmot Poems)
You ladies of merry England Who have been to kiss the Duchess's hand, Pray, did you not lately observe in ...
The Princess (part 2) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...