The Story-Book Boy (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
Oh, the story-book boy! he's a wonderful youth,A prodigy reeking with goodness and truth;As brave as a lion, as wise ...
Poems about dusts (21 Poems)
The Inheritance Of Ages (Patience Worth Poems)
Strange, is it not, beloved, that even as I lay my cheek to thine,Even as my eyes behold thine, even ...
Evangelist (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Say prickly pears had roots which found out water,had branches bursting out in sulphur flame.Wanderers traipsing from a cracked sierramunched ...
Spirit And Flesh (Patience Worth Poems)
Christ! Man! Dusts!Yet upon the day that He hath spokenHangeth the hope of eons that proceed!Christ! Man! Flesh!The mouthing of ...
Slave Or King? (Patience Worth Poems)
Am I a slave upon a dun-dust path,Weighted sore, bourne low of Sorrow's plying?Set on my way by One who ...
Listening (Patience Worth Poems)
I shall lend mine ear, Lord, listening.No confusion of the day shall appall me,Neither the awesome expanse of night.I shall ...
The Sign Disdained (Patience Worth Poems)
To decay, to become mould, dank mould,Green-lipped, festered; to become dust-To be thwarted asunder by the hand of time-To be ...
The Dreaming Things (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, ye winged folk, art thouSweet dreaming of my brothers taking wing?Ye butterflies of rainbow cloth,Art thou the fleeing ghosts ...
Cats (Charles Baudelaire Poems)
They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover:When comes the season of decay, they both decideUpon sweet, husky cats to ...
[Month of] April (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The stranger warmth of the young sun obeying,Look! little beads of green begin to grow,And hidden flowers have dated their ...
Rape Of Florida: Canto IV (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
Rape Of Florida: Canto III (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
On Tampa's hights gray rose the battlements:A summer's day had gone out in the west;The conflagration in the elementsWas ended, ...
Autumn Fields (Elizabeth Madox Roberts Poems)
He said his legs were stiff and sore ...
The Lady Poverty (Alice Meynell Poems)
The Lady Poverty was fair:But she has lost her looks of late,With change of times and change of air.Ah slattern, ...
Wasteland Of Solitude (Faiz Ahmed Faiz Poems)
In the wasteland of solitude, my love, quivershadows of your voice, illusions of your lips.In the wasteland of solitude, from ...
To Tan Ch’Iu [from the Chinese] (Arthur Waley Poems)
My friend is lodging high in the Eastern Range,Dearly loving the beauty of valleys and hills.At green Spring he lies ...
Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication (Seamus Heaney Poem)
1. Sunlight There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the ...
crematorium-return (Rg Gregory Poem)
(to where the ashes of both my parents are strewn) i) ok the pair of you lie still what's disturbing ...
Song of an Old General (Wang Wei Poems)
When he was a youth of fifteen or twenty, He chased a wild horse, he caught him and rode him, ...
To Tan-Ch’iu (Li Po Poems)
My friend is lodging high in the Eastern Range, Dearly loving the beauty of valleys and hills. At green Spring ...
Envoi (Ezra Pound Poems)
Go, dumb-born book, Tell her that sang me once that song of Lawes: Hadst thou but song As thou hast ...