Cadet Grey – Canto I (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IAct first, scene first. A study. Of a kind Half cell, half salon, opulent yet grave;Rare books, low-shelved, yet far ...
Poems about despoiled (21 Poems)
Appletrees (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
ISweet appletree, your branches delight me, Luxuriantly budding my pride and joy! I will put before the lord of Macreu, ...
Flowers Of France Decoration Poem For Soldiers’ Graves, Tours, France, May 30, 1918 (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Flowers of France in the Spring,Your growth is a beautiful thing;But give us your fragrance and bloom,Yea, give us your ...
Genesis BK I (Caedmon Poems)
I(ll. 1-28) Right is it that we praise the King of heaven, theLord of hosts, and love Him with all ...
What The Ants Are Saying (Donald Marquis Poems)
dear boss i was talking with an ant the other day and he handed me a lot of gossip which ...
Farewell To Brother Jonathan (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Farewell! we must part; we have turned from the landOf our cold-hearted brother, with tyrannous hand,Who assumed all our rights ...
A Lament For Dixie (Albert Pike Poems)
Southrons, conquered, subjugated, Mourn your country devastated! Mourn for hapless, hopeless Dixie! Homes once happy, desolated, Church and altar desecrated; ...
Genesis BK XV (Caedmon Poems)
(ll. 872-881) And straightway God made answer unto him: "Tell me,My son, why stealest thou away into the darkness with ...
Aeropagus (Edith Wharton Poems)
WHERE suns chase suns in rhythmic dance,Where seeds are springing from the dust,Where mind sways mind with spirit-glance,High court is ...
The Coquette (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Alone she sat with her accusing heart,That, like a restless comrade frightened sleep,And every thought that found her, left a ...
Pau-Puk-Keewis (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis, He, the handsome Yenadizze, Whom the people called the Storm-Fool, Vexed the village with disturbance; ...
The Winters are so short (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Winters are so short -- I'm hardly justified In sending all the Birds away -- And moving into Pod ...
The Falconer of God (William Rose Benet Poem)
I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying. I said, "Wait on, wait on, while I ride ...
Hymn To Death (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
Amor Intellectualis (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Oft have we trod the vales of Castaly And heard sweet notes of sylvan music blown From antique reeds to ...
Custer (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
The Torture of Cuauhtemoc (Alan Seeger Poems)
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
When We Were Here Together (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
when we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another. A bit of grass held ...
The Death of Cromwell (Andrew Marvell Poems)
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...