The Conscript (Alberta Vickridge Poems)
Then former stars were faint and signs were fled. Dawn flamed and sleepers roused: you saw men's souls ...
Poems about earns (21 Poems)
Life And Hereafter (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
NOT over there do I awaitReward for patience here below,Not over there at Heaven's gateIs all the joy that I ...
The Optimist (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Ships — they're all right, said Murphy, "for all you hear folks tell.There some shoves their bows under in a ...
Dandenong (C J Dennis Poems)
Hard by the gate-way of the East She dips within her market squareWith provender for man and beast, And goods ...
Promotion (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Promotion comes to him who sticksUnto his work and never kicks,Who watches neither clock nor sunTo tell him when his ...
Movin’ to Winter Range (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
Way up along the mountain side and up on the mesas high.You watch the silent shadows glide as the clowds ...
Happy Heathen: (With limited apologies to G.K.C.) (C J Dennis Poems)
The heathen's not efficient; He sits down in the sunAnd doesn't care a tuppn'y dump When the day's work's begun.He ...
My first well Day – since many ill (Emily Dickinson Poems)
574My first well Day - since many ill -I asked to go abroad,And take the Sunshine in my hands,And see ...
Sonnet LXXXIII: Barren Spring (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Once more the changed year's turning wheel returns:And as a girl sails balanced in the wind,And now before and now ...
Sonnet XCIV: Michelangelo (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Great Michelangelo, with age grown bleakAnd uttermost labours, having once o'ersaidAll grievous memories on his long life shed,This worst regret ...
Earn And Own (Edward Youl Poems)
Ever be it sung or said, Unearned bread is stolen bread. Head and hand divide the soil; Head for thought, ...
The Avowal (Denise Levertov Poem)
As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air ...
Dan, The Wreck (Henry Lawson Poem)
Tall, and stout, and solid-looking, Yet a wreck; None would think Death's finger's hooking Him from deck. Cause of half ...
THE GOOD PART, THAT SHALL NOT BE TAKEN AWAY (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, In valleys green and cool; And all her hope and all her pride Are ...
The Village Blacksmith (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; ...
My first well Day — since many ill — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
My first well Day -- since many ill -- I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my ...
307. Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson (Robert Burns Poem)
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody! The meikle devil wi' a woodie Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie, ...
Songs For A Colored Singer (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
I A washing hangs upon the line, but it's not mine. None of the things that I can see belong ...
The Princess (part 3) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Morn in the wake of the morning star Came furrowing all the orient into gold. We rose, and each by ...
The Emigrants: Book II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
Wedding (Vasko Popa Poems)
Each strips his own skin Each bares his own constellation Which has never seen the night Each fills his skin ...