Manasseh (Henry Kendall Poems)
Manasseh, lord of Judah, and the sonOf him who, favoured of Jehovah, sawAt midnight, when the skies were flushed with ...
Poems about efficient (21 Poems)
The Bronze David Of Donatello (Randall Jarrell Poems)
A sword in his right hand, a stone in his left hand,He is naked. Shod and naked. Hatted and naked.The ...
Lines On The Death Of William Sotheby, Esq (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the ...
Seven Days Leave (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Like flies about their ceiling aircraft haulover the cloudcap, your far sight outclimb. Thin air, compacted, trails them white whose belling engines ...
The Dirge (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
Out of the pregnant darkness, where from fire To glimmering fire the watchword leaps, The dirge floats up from those who build ...
Blighty (Ivor Gurney Poems)
It seemed that it were well to kiss first earthOn landing, having traversed the narrow seas,And grasp so little, tenderly, ...
The Foundling (Lola Ridge Poems)
Snow wraiths circle usLike washers of the dead,Flapping their white wet clothsImpatientlyAbout the grizzled head,Where the coarse hair mats like ...
Duty (Mary Tourtel Poems)
The troop-horse, like all soldiers, has to learn his drill till hebecomes as efficient as his rider. In war he ...
The Kalevala – Rune XX (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE BREWING OF BEER.Now we sing the wondrous legends,Songs of wedding-feasts and dances,Sing the melodies of wedlock,Sing the songs of ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXVI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT.Ahti, living on the island,Near the Kauko-point and harbor,Plowed his fields for rye and barley,Furrowed his extensive ...
The Kalevala – Rune XVII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
WAINAMOINEN FINDS THE LOST-WORD.Wainamoinen, old and truthful,Did not learn the words of magicIn Tuoni's gloomy regions,In the kingdom of Manala.Thereupon ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto III (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Yet to the wondrous St. Peter's, and yet to the solemn Rotunda, Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the ...
The Kalevala – Rune XLIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE SAMPO LOST IN THE SEA.Louhi, hostess of Pohyola,Called her many tribes together,Gave the archers bows and arrows,Gave her brave ...
The Ginestra, (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
OR THE FLOWER OF THE WILDERNESS. Here, on the arid ridge Of dead Vesuvius, Exterminator terrible, That by no other ...
The Calm (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers, have you observed the calm?Even the leaves of that symbolic palmThat denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirredBy ...
Guardian Angels (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers; even those of you who are already in the sear and yellow leaf, and full of years and ...
Old Town Types No. 12 – Mrs Munn, The Nurse (C J Dennis Poems)
Mrs Munn, the midwife - Mother Munn they called her --Wallowed in the world's woes; sickness ne'er appalled her. She ...
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 ...
Plague Of Dead Sharks (Alan Dugan Poems)
Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes? The wading, wintered pack-beasts of the feet slough off, in spring, the ...
Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They ...
Just Walking Around (John Ashbery Poem)
What name do I have for you? Certainly there is not name for you In the sense that the stars ...