The Borough. Letter XXIV: Schools (George Crabbe Poems)
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
Poems about exterior (21 Poems)
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI The Story of the Flood (Anonymous Asian Poems)
Gilgamesh spoke to Utanapishtim, the Faraway: "I have been looking at you, but your appearance is not strange—you ...
The Wish (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Our English Homer in his Rhimes,Asserts our Notions change with Times;This Maxim granted, makes me doubt,When some few Years are ...
William And Mira (Christian Milne Poems)
A TALE. ON her lov'd infant, as it sleeping lies,Ah! little does the tender mother know,While fondly gazing with delighted ...
Conference Of The Birds (Farid al-Din Attar Poems)
'Attar began The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-tair) with an invocation praising the holy Creator in which he suggested ...
Turgidus Alpinus (E W Bowling Poems)
My miserable countrymen, whose wont is once a-year To lounge in watering-places, disagreeable and dear; Who on pigmy Cambrian mountains, ...
Humility (Caroline Fry Poems)
Humility, said Lena, as she drewA well-worn glove upon her sun-burnt hand,"Is the best ornament a Christian knows."I think not ...
I Think When I Stand In The Presence Of Death. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I think when I stand in the presence of Death, How futile is earthy endeavor,If it be, with the flight ...
Sonnet XXXIV (Fernando Pessoa Poems)
Happy the maimed, the halt, the mad, the blind--All who, stamped separate by curtailing birth,Owe no duty's allegiance to mankindNor ...
Sonnet XXV (Fernando Pessoa Poems)
We are in Fate and Fate's and do but lackOutness from soul to know ourselves its dwelling,And do but compel ...
Le Manteau De Pascal (Jorie Graham Poem)
I have put on my great coat it is cold. It is an outer garment. Coarse, woolen. Of unknown origin. ...
Under Siege (Mahmoud Darwish Poem)
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...
This was a Poet — It is That (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This was a Poet -- It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings -- And Attar so immense From ...
Still (A. R. Ammons Poem)
I said I will find what is lowly and put the roots of my identity down there: each day I'll ...
Poem of Joys. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
To Oratists. (Walt Whitman Poems)
TO oratists-to male or female, Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to use words. Are you full-lung'd and ...
The Reply to Time (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
O TIME, forgive the mournful song That on thy pinions stole along, When the rude hand of pain severe Chas'd ...
Ainsi Va le Monde (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
Ode to Eloquence (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
HAIL! GODDESS of persuasive art! The magic of whose tuneful tongue Lulls to soft harmony the wand'ring heart With fascinating ...
SHAYDAYIM (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
(1) Caressing my tender breasts, his left hand's on the steering wheel, and his right hand is firmly tucked away ...