Hic Vir, Hic Est (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Often, when o'er tree and turret,Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I lingerKnown familiarly as 'King's.'And the ghosts ...
Poems about detected (21 Poems)
Things That Mortals Eat There (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
And what do you eat in the mess there compounded? For roast beef, the gravy the soap-man should claim-- The soup some ...
What I Have Come For (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I HAVE come with my verses--I think I may claimIt is not the first time I have tried on the ...
Diagnosis (Terence Winch Poems)
for David LehmanI woke up this morning feelingincredibly Gorky. So I made an appointmentto see my Doctorow. He said my ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
Tale XVII (George Crabbe Poems)
RESENTMENT.Females there are of unsuspicious mind,Easy and soft and credulous and kind;Who, when offended for the twentieth time,Will hear the ...
A Ballad (Elizabeth Ryves Poems)
I.Ye subjects of Britain, attend to my ...
The May Term (E W Bowling Poems)
I wish that the May Term were over, That its wearisome pleasures were o'er, And I were reclining in ...
Hic Vir, Hic Est (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Often, when o'er tree and turret, Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I linger Known familiarly as "King's."And ...
Curious Story (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
I heard such a curious storyOf Santa Claus. Once, so they say,He set out to find what people were kind,Before ...
Borrow’d Plumes (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Borrow'd PlumesPrologueOf borrow'd plumes I take the sin, My extracts will applyTo some few silly songs ...
Enigma VI. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
FIRST mention that land where the Nile, overflowing,Spreads beauty, and health, and fertility round,Then think of that region, where torrid ...
The Alphabet of the Land Act (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
A WAS the Act, Antecursor of strife,B was the Bill that had brought it to life,C was the Court, overcrowded ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
I heard, as if I had no Ear (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I heard, as if I had no Ear Until a Vital Word Came all the way from Life to me ...
An ignorance a Sunset (Emily Dickinson Poem)
An ignorance a Sunset Confer upon the Eye -- Of Territory -- Color -- Circumference -- Decay -- Its Amber ...
Once there was a man (Stephen Crane Poem)
Once there was a man -- Oh, so wise! In all drink He detected the bitter, And in all touch ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Of the Visage of Things. (Walt Whitman Poems)
OF the visages of things-And of piercing through to the accepted hells beneath; Of ugliness-To me there is just as ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment C (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
Our Mat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
It came from the prison this morning, Close-twisted, neat-lettered, and flat; It lies the hall doorway adorning, A very good ...