Courage (Louis Lavater Poems)
Two kinds of courage are there in the creedOf simple men. The one is courage born,Not made; enfibred in the ...
Poems about cowardice (21 Poems)
Israel In Egypt. Book Twelfth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
Saville In Trouble (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Sing muse! of Saville and the direful dayWhen beauty fell, to ruthless hands a prey;And life a sacrifice to savage ...
Gotham – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
In The Realm Of Night (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
I.THE flowing night awoken from my sleepRevealed a world of glory, while I stoodWatching the hazy, creeping ocean sweepOut of ...
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 Great Boat Race (E W Bowling Poems)
1. HAWKSHAW 3rd Trinity. 5. KINGLAKE 3rd Trinity. 2. PIGOTT Corpus. ...
The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc (Alan Seeger Poems)
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
The Martyr Of Alabama (Frances Ellen Watkins Poems)
He lifted up his pleading eyes, And scanned each cruel face, Where cold and brutal cowardice Had left its evil ...
Douglas (Fenton Johnson Poems)
He came when tyranny was ripe, a torchThat lit the darkened avenue of hope,He came from cabin, ragged, poor, and ...
His Philosophy (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
JIM had a quaint philosophy,"It ain't fer you, it's jes' fer me,"He used to say. "I don't p'tendT' force it ...
Ode To Death (Charlotte Smith Poems)
FRIEND of the wretched! wherefore should the eyeOf blank Despair, whence tears have ceased to flow,Be turn'd from thee?--Ah! wherefore ...
Rachel’s Tears (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Cries for the lost children the children of Israel, of Rachel tears of the mothers of the land the covenant ...
Phantasmagoria Canto I (The Trystyng ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
Guinevere (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
In The Deep Museum (Anne Sexton Poems)
My God, my God, what queer corner am I in? Didn't I die, blood running down the post, lungs gagging ...
The Torture of Cuauhtemoc (Alan Seeger Poems)
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
Diving into the Wreck (Adrienne Rich Poems)
First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put ...
Deborah’s Parrot, a Village Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
'Twas in a little western town An ancient Maiden dwelt: Her name was MISS, or MISTRESS, Brown, Or DEBORAH, or ...
Nocturne (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Always I knew that it could not last (Gathering clouds, and the snowflakes flying), Now it is part of the ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...