The Old Tramp (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
(LE VIEUX VAGABOND) Here in this gutter let me die: Weary and sick and old, I've done. "He's drunk," will say the passers-by: All ...
Poems about craftsmen (18 Poems)
Dressing Gown Farewell (Piotr Andreevich Viazemsky Poems)
Forgive me, dressing gown! My friend in idle bliss,Comrade of leisure, a witness to my secret thoughts!With you I knew ...
Boston (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Sicut Patribus, sit Deus Nobis)The rocky nook with hilltops threeLooked eastward from the farms,And twice each day the flowing seaTook ...
Betzko (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
A HUNGARIAN LEGENDStibor had led in many a fight, And broken a score of swordsIn furious frays and bloody raids Against the ...
The Shoemakers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Ho! workers of the old time styledThe Gentle Craft of Leather!Young brothers of the ancient guild,Stand forth once more together!Call ...
Olympia XI (Pindar Poems)
OLYMPIA Xl-FOR AGESIDAMUS OF THE WESTWIND LOCRIANS:WINNER IN THE BOYS BOXING MATCH Old Time, Old Shifting Trade-Time there is for the ...
Only A Few Links Wanting (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Only a few links wanting, Earth's toilers oft exclaim,Only a few charmed linklets, To make life's perfect chain;Philosophers and statesmen, Poets and courtiers ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI The Story of the Flood (Anonymous Asian Poems)
Gilgamesh spoke to Utanapishtim, the Faraway: "I have been looking at you, but your appearance is not strange—you ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet VI (Anonymous Asian Poems)
He washed out his marred hair and cleaned up his equipment(?), shaking out his locks down over his back,throwing off ...
The Circles (Coventry Patmore Poems)
'Within yon world-wide cirque of war What's hidden which they fight so for?' ...
Within the maw of the oven (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like looking inside a Faberge Like a living foundry of Hell the maw of the oven glowing orange and red ...
Glassworks (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Mesmerized, watching The skill, artistry Effortlessness in the heat Of the sweating craftsmen In the beach air On the Vineyard ...
Hair Cut (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A grand presentation the three of us early one Sunday morning just before Easter A grand march with appropriate solemnity ...
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 ...
115. The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton (Robert Burns Poems)
ADIEU! a heart-warm fond adieu; Dear brothers of the mystic tie! Ye favourèd, enlighten'd few, Companions of my social joy; ...
The Sycamores (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In the outskirts of the village On the river's winding shores Stand the Occidental plane-trees, Stand the ancient sycamores. One ...
The Enemies Of The Little Box (Vasko Popa Poems)
Don't box down to the little box Which supposedly contains everything Your star and all other stars Empty yourself In ...
At the Top of My voice (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
My most respected comrades of posterity! Rummaging among these days' petrified crap, exploring the twilight of our times, you, possibly, ...