The Legend of Mirth (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
Poems about discharge (24 Poems)
Boots (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
We're foot--slog--slog--slog--sloggin' over Africa -- Foot--foot--foot--foot--sloggin' over Africa -- (Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again!) There's no discharge in the war! ...
The Benefactors (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
THE PUPIL IN MAGIC. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I AM now,--what joy to hear it!-- Of the old magician rid; And henceforth shall ev'ry spirit Do whate'er by ...
To Promise Is One Thing To Keep It, Another (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
The Case Of Conscience (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
The Code (Robert Frost Poem)
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Sonnet LXIII: Truce, Gentle Love (Michael Drayton Poem)
Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave; Methinks 'tis long since first these wars begun; Nor thou nor I ...
To Her Father with Some Verses (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
Most truly honoured, and as truly dear, If worth in me or ought I do appear, Who can of right ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
60. Epistle on J. Lapraik (Robert Burns Poems)
WHILE briers an' woodbines budding green, An' paitricks scraichin loud at e'en, An' morning poussie whiddin seen, Inspire my muse, ...
Saltbush Bill’s Gamecock (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas Saltbush Bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way to town; He crossed them over the Hard Times ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
The Scapegoat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
WREATH OF SONNETS (Vlanes Poems)
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
The Loss of the Victoria (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
The Sinking Fund Cried (Thomas Moore Poems)
["Now what, we ask, is become of this Sinking Fund - these eight millions of surplus above expenditure, which were ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Hannah Armstrong (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I wrote him a letter asking him for old times' sake To discharge my sick boy from the army; But ...
Reproach (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Had I but known yesterday, Helen, you could discharge the ache Out of the cloud; Had I known yesterday you ...
Gin (Philip Levine Poems)
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...
Hymns Of The Marshes. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...