Black Bonnet (Henry Lawson Poem)
A day of seeming innocence, A glorious sun and sky, And, just above my picket fence, Black Bonnet passing by. ...
Poems about dangers (31 Poems)
To my Lady Berkeley, Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord BERKELEY’s Early Engaging in the Sea-Service (Anne Killigrew Poems)
SO the renowned Ithacensian Queen In Tears for her Telemachus was seen, When leaving Home, he did attempt the Ire ...
HIS SAILING FROM JULIA (Robert Herrick Poem)
When that day comes, whose evening says I'm gone Unto that watery desolation; Devoutly to thy Closet-gods then pray, That ...
A PANEGYRIC TO SIR LEWIS PEMBERTON (Robert Herrick Poem)
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
Hidden Dangers (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Christ's life shows us the hidden dangers the twists and turns temptations that seek to catch our attention He shows ...
A Description of the Journey (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The Gospels sharing the teachings of Jesus like maps for the journey but only to a point A description of ...
Vigilant (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A call to vigilance not merely the physical staying awake keen to the insights hidden dangers coming struggle being with ...
Going in Faith (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Bringing an offering first fruits of the harvest a gift worthy in the eyes of God Building what God commanded ...
Search Lights (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Beacons, projecting out into the storm not staying close to shore, seeking to help, to comfort, to light the way ...
Lighthouses (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not just a light for the nations, not just being a light the Light shining in the world, in the ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
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 Little Bell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
An EPISTLE from Alexander to Hephaestion In His Sickness (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
An Apology for my fearfull temper (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Tis true of courage I'm no mistress No Boadicia nor Thalestriss Nor shall I e'er be famed hereafter For such ...
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress (John Donne Poem)
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
No further slice of me (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
Hidden dangers (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Which things excited you the most when you were young, can you recall the pleasures they would bring? Indulge yourself, ...
The Task: Book II, The Time-Piece (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
The Flood (John Clare Poem)
On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood I've seen the winter floods their gambols play Through each old arch ...
310. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin ...
Tam O’Shanter (Robert Burns Poems)
A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." -Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And ...
Everything I Needed (Poem)
I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave ...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) (Ezra Pound Poems)
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
A Tribute to Henry M. Stanley (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee, The great African explorer Henry M Stanley, Who went out to Africa ...