The Prisoner For Debt (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
LOOK on him! through his dungeon grate,Feebly and cold, the morning lightComes stealing round him, dim and late,As if it ...
Poems about fouler (21 Poems)
Distichs (John Hay Poems)
I.Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her.This one may love her some day, some day ...
The Labyrinth (Henry King Poems)
Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and weAre daily lost in that Obliquity.'Tis a perplexed circle, in whose roundNothing but sorrows ...
The Well’s Secret (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I KNEW it all my boyhood: in a lonesome valley meadow,Like a dryad's mirror hidden by the wood's dim arches ...
Lines Inscribed Upon A Cup Formed From A Skull (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Start not--nor deem my spirit fled:In me behold the only skullFrom which, unlike a living head,Whatever flows is never dull.I ...
St Mary Of Egypt (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Strong to suffer, strong to sin,Loving much, and much forgiven,In the desert realm a queen,Penance-crowned, to cope with Heaven,Solitude alone ...
Sir Orfeo (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
We often read and written find,as learned men do us remind,that lays that now the harpers singare wrought of many ...
Tired (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
No not to-night, dear child; I cannot go; I'm busy, tired; they knew I should not come; you do not ...
Aeneas to Dido (F L Poems)
?neas read what Dido wrote, And sent her this replie;And sought to cure the curelesse wound,Which Dido made to die.When ...
Quia Multum Amavit (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man?Wherefore now ...
Comme Un Dernier Rayon (Andre Marie de Chenier Poems)
Comme un dernier rayon, comme un dernier z?phyre Animent la fin d'un beau jour, Au pied ...
Les Regrets De La Belle H?aulmiere (Francoise Villon Poems)
ADVIS m'est que j'oy regreterLa belle qui fut h?aulmiere,Soy jeune fille soushaicterEt parler en telle maniere:'Ha! viellesse felonne et fiere,Pourquoi ...
The Sale of Rebellious House-hold Stuff. To the tune of Old Simon the King (Anonymous British Poems)
Rebellion hath broken up house,And hath left me old lumber to sell;Come hither and take your choice,I'll promise to use ...
Blanche Et Douce Colombe (Andre Marie de Chenier Poems)
Blanche et douce colombe, aimable prisonni?re, Quel injuste ennemi te cache ? la lumi?re? Je t'ai vue aujourd'hui (que le ...
Goya (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
Goya drew a pig on a wall. The five-year-old hairdresser's son Saw, graved on a silver tray, The lion; and ...
The Kaiser And God (Barry Pain Poems)
Led by Wilhelm, as you tell,God has done extremely well;You with patronizing nodShow that you approve of God.Kaiser, face a ...
Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly (John Donne Poem)
I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite; But black sin hath betrayed to endless ...
Dawn (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Opposite me two Germans snore and sweat. Through sullen swirling gloom we jolt and roar. We have been here for ...
Lines Inscribed Upon A Cup Formed From A Skull (Lord Byron Poem)
Start not-nor deem my spirit fled: In me behold the only skull From which, unlike a living head, Whatever flows ...
Quia Multum Amavit (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man? Wherefore now these ...
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...