Harriet Beecher Stowe (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
She told the story, and the whole world wept At wrongs and cruelties it had not known But for this fearless woman's ...
Poems about cruelties (21 Poems)
Ante Mortem (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
It is likely enough that lions and scorpionsGuard the end; life never was bonded to be endurable nor theact of ...
Moonlit Olive Grove (Jewell Miller Poems)
Faintly heard mutterings,Dimly seen flutterings,Crouching forms ... tangled hair,Withered limbs ... visage bare.Groping foot ... earth-bound rootSeek motion: Slowly shoot ...
The Ancient Banner (Anonymous Americas Poems)
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
Hero And Leander. The Sixth Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
No longer could the Day nor Destinies Delay the Night, who now did frowning rise Into her throne; ...
A Poem Upon His Sacred Majesty, His Voyage For Holland: By Way Of Dialogue, Between Belgia And Brita (Alicia D Anvers Poems)
BRITANNIA.Wretched Britannia! Hapless and undone! How have my Follies call'd this Vengeance down, And anger'd Heav'n to so severe a ...
The Old Sac Village (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Ye who read in musty volumesPages worn of Backwoods Times,Of the red man and the white man,In the thrilling days ...
A Captain Of Song (Francis Thompson Poems)
(On a portrait of Coventry Patmore by J. S. Sargent, R.A.)Look on him. This is he whose works ye know;Ye ...
Dungeon Grates (C S Lewis Poems)
So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan,So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs ...
The Speeshalist (David Rorie Poems)
Saturday Night.Noo, ye'll no' tak' it ill o' me, Mistress Macqueen,For ye ken ye are juist a young kimmer,An' I ...
A Tardy Apology (Eugene Field Poems)
You ask me, friend, Why I don't sendThe long since due-and-paid-for numbers; Why, songless, I ...
To Albius Tibullus (Eugene Field Poems)
Not to lament that rival flame Wherewith the heartless Glycera scorns you,Nor waste your time in maudlin rhyme, How many ...
The Assassins (Frederic Prokosch Poems)
O SUMMON out of memoryInto understandingSo that all may fear itFrom the blood and feverOf our passsionate and foreverUnregenerate spiritSuch ...
Sojourns in the Parallel World (Denise Levertov Poem)
We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a ...
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 ...
Solomon And The Witch (William Butler Yeats Poems)
And thus declared that Arab lady: 'Last night, where under the wild moon On grassy mattress I had laid me, ...
Song of the Broad-Axe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy. (Walt Whitman Poems)
YOU just maturing youth! You male or female! Remember the organic compact of These States, Remember the pledge of the ...
The Nithsdale Widow and Her Son (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon, When trees and flowers were in full bloom, That ...
In Arthur’s House (William Morris Poems)
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...