The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Poems about erstwhile (21 Poems)
The Legend Of St. Regimund. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
St. Regimund, e'er he became a saint,Was much imbued with vulgar earthly taint;E'er he renounced the honors of a KnightAnd ...
On The Trail (Frank Maynard Poems)
It was down across the BrazosThat we rounded up to start,With about five thousand cattleFor the busy Kansas mart;There were ...
A Christ-child (Ethel Turner Poems)
A COPPER concave of a sky Hangs high above my head. Vague thunder sullenly goes by With dragging, ...
A Plan (Donald Marquis Poems)
YOUTH is the season of revolt; at twenty-fiveWe curse the reigning politicians,Wondering that any man aliveStands for such damnable conditions.Whatever ...
The Mellowing Of Joe (C J Dennis Poems)
When the Laborites and Liberals are bickering, Are a-calling and a-bawling in the House,And the strangers in the gallery are ...
A Fallen Star (Albert Chevalier Poems)
Thirty years ago I was a fav'rite at the `Vic.'A finished actor, not a Cuff and Collar shooting stick.I roused ...
Mobile Mystic Societies (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
The olden golden stories of the world, That stirred the past, And now are dim as dreams,The lays and legends ...
Blasted Hopes (Abner Cosens Poems)
We hoped to end our troubled days Far from the maddening strife, Erstwhile to chortle roundelays ...
Moallaka – I (Edward Powys Mathers Poems)
Translated From the Arabic of Antar (late sixth and early seventh centuries).The poets have muddied all the little fountains.Yet do ...
Radiolatry (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The worst of all idolatorsAre zealous radiolatersWho wreck the peace of erstwhile happy homesWith drool of variometers,Detectors, galvanometers,Antennae, switches, batteries ...
Thoughts In A Garden (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Why, where erstwhile I sowed my choicest seeds,Come up but weeds?Why do large docksAppear where should be stocksAnd phlox?Why flaunts ...
On Victoria’s Jubilee (Ernest George Henty Poems)
Just fifty years ago, this land in slumber lay;The native chased the wild dingo, which roamed from day to dayO'er ...
Passer Mortuus Est (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Death devours all lovely things;Lesbia with her sparrowShares the darkness, presentlyEvery bed is narrowUnremembered as old rainDries the sheer libation,And ...
Song From Heine (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I scanned her picture dreaming, Till each dear line and hue Was imaged, to my seeming, As if it lived ...
The Well-Beloved (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I wayed by star and planet shine Towards the dear one's home At Kingsbere, there to make her mine When ...
The Dance At The Phoenix (Thomas Hardy Poem)
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
The Church-Builder (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Passer Mortuus Est (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness,-presently Every bed is narrow. Unremembered as old rain ...