The Night Of The Lion (Alfred Noyes Poems)
_And that a reply be received before midnight.__British Ultimatum_.Their Day was at twelve of the night, When the graves give ...
Poems about downfall (21 Poems)
Cohasset (Francis Maitland Poems)
The days are sped, and never shall return, Days of deep joy, which Helen did beguile Wide her sweet presence ...
All The Talents (George Canning Poems)
When the broad-bottom'd Junto, with reason at strife,Resign'd, with a sigh, its political life;When converted to Rome, and of honesty ...
Clay’s Defeat (George Moses Horton Poems)
'Tis the hope of the noble defeated; The aim of the marksman is vain; The wish of destruction completed, The ...
Dogs (Aaron Kramer Poems)
Looking foolish next to the tree in a one o'clock rain: umbrella aloft, the leash in my other hand- I ...
Sonnet XXI: Love Sweetness (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Sweet dimness of her loosened hair's downfallAbout thy face; her sweet hands round thy headIn gracious fostering union garlanded;Her tremulous ...
Theodicy (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
No, it won't do, my sweet theologians. Desire will not save the morality of God. If he created beings able ...
Love’s Strategems (Donald Justice Poems)
But these maneuverings to avoid The touching of hands, These shifts to keep the eyes employed On objects more or ...
Love’s Strategems (Donald Justice Poems)
But these maneuverings to avoid The touching of hands, These shifts to keep the eyes employed On objects more or ...
A Prayer (James Joyce Poem)
Again! Come, give, yield all your strength to me! From far a low word breathes on the breaking brain Its ...
Autumn (Thomas Hood Poem)
I Saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
To a foil’d European Revolutionaire. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv'd, whatever occurs; That is nothing, ...
Lament (Dylan Thomas Poems)
When I was a windy boy and a bit And the black spit of the chapel fold, (Sighed the old ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: XXV (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
But you now, dear girl, whom I loved like a flower whose name I didn't know, you who so early ...
Duino Elegies: The First Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly pressed ...
An All-Night Sea Fight (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
The Battle of Inkermann (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1854, and on the 5th November, Which Britain will no doubt long remember, When the ...
The Battle of Shina, in Africa, Fought in 1800 (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
King Shuac, the Giant of Mizra, war did declare Against Ulva, King of Shina, telling him to prepare And be ...
The Troubles of Matthew Mahoney (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
In a little town in Devonshire, in the mellow September moonlight, A gentleman passing along a street saw a pitiful ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...