The Sea-Bird’s Song (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
On the deep is the mariner's danger,On the deep is the mariner's death;Who, to fear of the tempest a stranger,Sees ...
Poems about foundering (21 Poems)
The Star Of Bethlehem (Henry Kirke White Poems)
When marshal'd on the nightly plain,The glittering host bestud the sky;One star alone, of all the train,Can fix the sinner's ...
The Alligator (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
THAT steed has lost his rider! I have seenHis snuffing nostril, and his pawing hoof;His eyeball lighting to the cannon's ...
The Red Sunsets II, 1883 (Mathilde Blind Poems)
THE boding sky was charactered with cloud, The scripture of the storm--but high in air, Where the unfathomed zenith still was bare,A ...
Songs (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
COME here fond youth, whoe'er thou be, That boasts to love as well as me;And if thy breast have felt ...
The Rose Of The Infata (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
She is so little-in her hand a rose;A stern duenna watches where she goes.What sees she? Ah, she knows not-the ...
New Year’s Eve (Ernest Jones Poems)
DARKNESS on the endless sea; A wild, wild wailing cry;And the sun came down-like a ...
Ode (Albert Pike Poems)
(SUNG AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE I. O. O. F.)The night cometh swiftly, the thick clouds are drifting Around the ...
Squatting up in Queensland (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Squatting up in Queensland, is a great mistake I guess;If you ask if I'm a squatter, I can truly answer ...
All Flesh (Francis Thompson Poems)
I do not need the skies' Pomp, when I would be wise; For pleasaunce nor to use Heaven's champaign ...
Slave And Emperor (Alfred Noyes Poems)
Our cavalry have rescued Nazareth from the enemy whose supermendescribed Christianity as a creed for slaves.The Emperor mocked at Nazareth ...
Untitled (Eberhard Arnold Poems)
Drifting, trembling,aching voice -alone in the universeecholess.Foreboding remembrance -wounded hearts' pain -outburst of anguishedsouls rent in twain.Driven by obsessions,dragged to ...
The Loss Of The Eurydice (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice-it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep ...
That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they ...
A great Hope fell (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And ...
Meditations Divine and Moral (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, ...
March Elegy (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
I have enough treasures from the past to last me longer than I need, or want. You know as well ...
The Puritan’s Ballad (Elinor Wylie Poems)
My love came up from Barnegat, The sea was in his eyes; He trod as softly as a cat And ...
Mystic Trumpeter, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
Finrod’s Song (J. R. R. Tolkien Poems)
He chanted a song of wizardry, Of piercing, opening, of treachery, Revealing, uncovering, betraying. Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang ...
The Ballad of the Calliope (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
By the far Samoan shore, Where the league-long rollers pour All the wash of the Pacific on the coral-guarded bay, ...