Ascent To The Sierras (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising Begins to possess the ground, the flatness gathers to little humps and ...
Poems about fortunate (31 Poems)
Meditation On Saviors (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
The Lads in Their Hundreds (A. E. Housman Poem)
The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There's men from the barn and the forge ...
Two Infants II (Khalil Gibran Poem)
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let ...
Dorcas Preaching – Blog Action Day (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We should remember, her story, her acts of faith out of her poverty, her little, meager resources she offers lessons ...
Dorcas Preaching (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Up from the pages, from the town of Joppa the port, overlooking the Mediterranean a disciple shared her witness, her ...
We give thee Thanks (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
At this time of year, remembering, sharing, caring for those less fortunate spending time with family Reflecting here, before advent ...
Oh Yeah, and I raised him from the dead (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A travelogue of a busy apostle forgetting to mention what would seem a significant moment a resurrection, after all doesn't ...
Ben apfelgarten (Eugene Field Poem)
There was a certain gentleman, Ben Apfelgarten called, Who lived way off in Germany a many years ago, And he ...
St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
The Hog, The Sheep, And Goat, Carrying To A FAIR (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Who does not wish, ever to judge aright, And, in the Course of Life's Affairs, To have a quick, and ...
Dæmonic Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Elegy XVIII: Love’s Progress (John Donne Poems)
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
How fortunate the Grave — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
How fortunate the Grave -- All Prizes to obtain -- Successful certain, if at last, First Suitor not in vain. ...
Possums came at night (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...
Jessie of Gibraltar (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Our lives were founded on this rock, this Jessie of Gibraltar Whose unfailing love endured beyond her ample nursing, And ...
It seldom snowed, they said – Part I (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
Frogmouth biker (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The biker was a menace on the farm, a madman bent on speed, intent on leaving all for dead (it ...
Prayer (Richard Crashaw Poem)
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Atalanta In Camden -Town (Lewis Carroll Poem)
AY, 'twas here, on this spot, In that summer of yore, Atalanta did not Vote my presence a bore, Nor ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
How Fortunate The Man With None (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
You saw sagacious Solomon You know what came of him, To him complexities seemed plain. He cursed the hour that ...
Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
Next, then, the peacock, gilt With all its feathers. Look, what gorgeous dyes Flow in the eyes! And how deep, ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came (Robert Browning Poem)
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
Down on the Shore (William Allingham Poem)
Down on the shore, on the sunny shore! Where the salt smell cheers the land; Where the tide moves bright ...
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...