On the Hillside that Night (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
(In the Crowd) My sheep, grazing in the pasture on that hillside that night, along with the others watching the ...
Poems about danger (27 Poems)
Abraham’s Children (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Like the tax collector we are all Abraham's children children of the promise of the savior, of the creator sheep ...
Night Alone (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Bright noisy streets Unattached and watching The jazz, the sass, The Street, Bourbon Late April Thick with tourists Easy marks ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
The Lyon And The Gnat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately Pace, ...
The Ax-Helve (Robert Frost Poem)
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
Wild Grapes (Robert Frost Poem)
What tree may not the fig be gathered from? The grape may not be gathered from the birch? It's all ...
Forbearance (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk; At rich ...
Dæmonic Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
The Soul’s distinct connection (Emily Dickinson Poems)
The Soul's distinct connection With immortality Is best disclosed by Danger Or quick Calamity -- As Lightning on a Landscape ...
Peril as a Possesssion (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Peril as a Possesssion 'Tis Good to hear Danger disintegrates Satiety There's Basis there -- Begets an awe That searches ...
Expectation — is Contentment — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Expectation -- is Contentment -- Gain -- Satiety -- But Satiety -- Conviction Of Necessity Of an Austere trait in ...
Finalities (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
Amid fear and suspicions, with agitated mind and frightened eyes, we melt and plan how to act to avoid the ...
Eclogues (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Eclogue the First. Whanne Englonde, smeethynge from her lethal wounde, From her galled necke dyd twytte the chayne awaie, Kennynge ...
Ye Mariners of England (Thomas Campbell Poem)
1 Ye Mariners of England 2 That guard our native seas, 3 Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, 4 ...
The Vixen (John Clare Poem)
Among the taller wood with ivy hung, The old fox plays and dances round her young. She snuffs and barks ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
The Wife’s Will (Charlotte Bronte Poems)
SIT stilla worda breath may break (As light airs stir a sleeping lake,) The glassy calm that soothes my woes, ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
146. Address to Edinburgh (Robert Burns Poem)
EDINA! Scotia's darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once, beneath a Monarch's feet, Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs: ...
498. Song-For the sake o’ Somebody (Robert Burns Poems)
MY heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody; I could wake a winter night For ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
503. inscription on Mr. Syme’s crystal goblet (Robert Burns Poems)
THERE'S Death in the cup, so beware! Nay, more-there is danger in touching; But who can avoid the fell snare, ...
157. Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN, by a generous Public's kind acclaim, That dearest meed is granted-honest fame; Waen here your favour is the actor's ...
75. Halloween (Robert Burns Poems)
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...