Gold (Herman Melville Poems)
We rovers bold, To the land of Gold,Over the bowling billows are gliding: Eager to toil, For the golden spoil,And every hardship biding. See! ...
Poems about earnings (21 Poems)
When Daddy Cums From Wuk (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Cum here, Mandy, what's you chewin',Take dat bread right out yo' mouf,Do you know what you'se doin'?You'se de worry ob ...
London Dawn (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Dawn comes up on London,And night's undone.Stars are routedAnd street lamps outed.Sodden great clouds begin sail againLike all-night anchored galleons ...
The Camp-Follower (Maxwell Bodenheim Poems)
We spoke, the camp-follower and I.About us was a cold, pungent odor --Gun-powder, stale wine, wet earth, and the smell ...
The Price? (Sant Tukaram Poems)
If you treat the opposite sex with reverencewill you pay a price?If you stop your fault-finding and covetous wayswill your ...
The Poor Of The Borough. Letter XXI: Abel Keene (George Crabbe Poems)
A QUIET, simple man was Abel Keene,He meant no harm, nor did he often mean;He kept a school of loud ...
Post Mortem (Arthur Joseph Munby Poems)
I LAY in my coffin under the sod;But the rooks they caw'd, and the sheep they trodAnd munch'd and bleated, ...
From “My Country” (George Edward Woodberry Poems)
"O DESTINED Land, unto thy citadel, What founding fates even now doth peace compel, That through the world thy name ...
The Irish Peasant Girl (Charles Kickham Poems)
SHE lived beside the Anner, At the foot of Slievna-man, A gentle peasant girl, With mild eyes like the dawn; ...
Wasps In A Garden (Charles Lamb Poems)
The wall-trees are laden with fruit; The grape, and the plum, and the pear,The peach and the nectarine, to suit ...
XVI: I Know Not How It Is (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I know not how it is, but when I hear The name of Wordsworth it is as a spell That ...
To The Stone-Cutters (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The ...
All to Himself (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The fortune, his wealth on this earth gathered unto him to his bosom, like a poker player his arms open ...
Men with trivial scars (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We wear scars from our youth, trifling things reflecting those earnings from growing days, of battles raised and wounds worn ...
Ah! Yet Consider it Again! (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
"Old things need not be therefore true," O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Enoch Arden (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red ...
Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
The Demon Drink (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer; Thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer. What hast thou done to ...
Searcy Foote (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I wanted to go away to college But rich Aunt Persis wouldn't help me. So I made gardens and raked ...
Sestina (David Lehman Poems)
for Jim Cummins In Iowa, Jim dreamed that Della Street was Anne Sexton's twin. Dave drew a comic strip called ...