Salaam! (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
Serene, complacent, satisfied, Content with things that be; The paragon of paltriness Upraised for all to see; With loving pride he cherishes His mediocrity! The smirking, ...
Poems about fawned (21 Poems)
The Poet Orders His Sepulchre (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(After Ronsard)YE caverns, and ye rillsThat from the beetling hillsDown every rocky wallGlide, gleam, and fall;Ye woods and streams around,Where ...
Experience In Poverty (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A.HOW bitterly you speak!B.I have good warrant.A.Well, for my part, I hold your creed is false.Uncharitable, monstrous! I have seenThe ...
The Vision By The Sea (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I.A HAUNTING face! with strange, ethereal eyes,Deep as unfathomed gulfs of tranquil skiesWhen o'er their brightness a vague mist is ...
The Gypsy Girl (Ralph Hodgson Poems)
"Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen,A penny for three tries!"Some threw and lost, some threw and wonA ten-a-penny prize.She was ...
A Voice From The Factories (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
Dante At Verona (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Behold, even I, even I am Beatrice.(Div. Com. Purg. xxx.)OF Florence and of BeatriceServant and singer from of old,O'er Dante's ...
A Reading Of Life–The Test Of Manhood (George Meredith Poems)
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,An army issues out of wilderness,With battle plucking round its ragged flanks;Obstruction in ...
Sonnett VI: A Nuptial Sleep (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when ...
Sonnet CCXCII: “Beloved, thou cam’st to me of late and said” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Beloved, thou cam 'st to me of late and said; "Stay with me, Dearest! Stay another day! Stay thou because ...
Gratitude (Edith Nesbit Poems)
I found a starving cat in the street:It cried for food and a place by the fire.I carried it home, ...
Sonnet CCLXXIV: “Such of her beauties as the world may see” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Such of her beauties as the world may see, Whose eyes escort her eagerly around, Lackeying her way with homage ...
Degrees Of Love (Arthur Symons Poems)
When your eyes opened to mine eyes, Without desire, without surprise, I knew your soul awoke to sec All, dreams ...
The Only Son (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew For she heard a whimper under the ...
Evarra And His Gods (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
Cleared (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
Clowns’ Houses (Dame Edith Sitwell Poems)
BENEATH the flat and paper sky The sun, a demon's eye, Glowed through the air, that mask of glass; All ...
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 ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
The Tale of the Tiger-Tree (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...