Bird Slaughter (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Poor, little bird! the chase is ended;No longer hast thou cause for fear;Within these walls thou art befriended;No sportsmen can ...
Poems about degradation (21 Poems)
Brothers (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
See! There he stands; not brave, but with an airOf sullen stupor. Mark him well! Is heNot more like brute ...
To John Gorham Palfrey (James Russell Lowell Poems)
There are who triumph in a losing cause,Who can put on defeat, as 'twere a wreathUnwithering in the adverse popular ...
The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito (Miguel Pinero Poems)
Before the beginningGod created GodIn the beginningGod created the ghettos & slumsand God saw this was good.So God said,"Let there ...
Poor Old Hat (John Hartley Poems)
Poor old hat! poor old hat! like misen tha's grown An fowk call us old fashioned an odd;But monny's the storm ...
Myth Of The Blaze (George Oppen Poems)
night-sky bird's worldto know to know in my life to knowwhat I have said to myselfthe dark to escape in brilliant highwaysof the night ...
A Notable Dinner (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,Who to lift a fallen people had a work of ...
The Pharaohs of Today (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Pain and labor of oppression gave the Western world its birth,From such shores the love of freedom ne'er should perish ...
“Go find yourself naive women friends” (Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva Poems)
Go find yourself naive women friendsWho haven't checked miracles by number.I know that Venus was produced by hand,I'm a craftsman, ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto II (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
The Spagnoletto. Act I (Emma Lazarus Poems)
THE SPAGNOLETTO.DRAMATIS PERSONAE.DON JOHN of AUSTRIA.JOSEF RIBERA, the Spagnoletto.LORENZO, noble young Italian artist, pupil of Ribera.DON TOMMASO MANZANO.LUCA, servant to ...
Rose of Aberlone (Brainerd Currie Poems)
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
The Truant (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
'What have you there?' the great Panjandrum saidTo the Master of the Revels who had ledA bucking truant with a ...
Ode to Joy (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Wild and fearful in his cavernHid the naked troglodyte,And the homeless nomad wanderedLaying waste the fertile plain.Menacing with spear and ...
Harry Wilmans (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was just turned twenty-one,And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent,Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House."The honor of the flag ...
Ohio (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
I have questioned the loyalty of rivers in winter, their yearnings for oceans obstructed, indecisive meandering clogged by ice floes ...
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry (Edward Taylor Poems)
There's a fortune to be made in just about everything in this country, somebody's father had to invent everything--baby food, ...
More Later, Less The Same (Edward Taylor Poems)
The common is unusually calm--they captured the storm last night, it's sleeping in the stockade, relieved of its duty, pacified, ...
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry (James Tate Poems)
There's a fortune to be made in just about everything in this country, somebody's father had to invent everything--baby food, ...
More Later, Less The Same (James Tate Poems)
The common is unusually calm--they captured the storm last night, it's sleeping in the stockade, relieved of its duty, pacified, ...
Harry Wilmans (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was just turned twenty-one, And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House. "The honor ...