Sonnet To Beauty (Allen Tate Poems)
The wonder of light is your familiar tale,Pert wench, down to the nineteenth century:Mr. Rimbaud the Frenchman's apostasyAsserts the argument ...
Poems about frenchman (21 Poems)
Stoves and sunshine (Eugene Field Poem)
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
The Ax-Helve (Robert Frost Poem)
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
Heroic Stanzas (John Dryden Poem)
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
The Ships of Saint John (Bliss Carman Poem)
Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, ...
The Rolling English Road (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. ...
Dream Song 113: or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld (John Berryman Poem)
or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld That isna Henry limping. That's a hobble clapped on mere Henry by the most ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Now List to my Morning’s Romanza. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 NOW list to my morning's romanza-I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities and farms I sing, ...
Duello (Robert William Service Poems)
A Frenchman and an Englishman Resolved to fight a duel, And hit upon a savage plan, Because their hate was ...
A Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased, Recognized And Made More Vivid By Renoir (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shore Or near the bank of a woodland lake Twenty-eight girls and all ...
Alpine Holiday (Robert William Service Poems)
He took the grade in second - quite a climb, Dizzy and dangerous, yet how sublime! The road went up ...
Romance (Robert William Service Poems)
In Paris on a morn of May I sent a radio transalantic To catch a steamer on the way, But ...
Wrestling Match (Robert William Service Poems)
What guts he had, the Dago lad Who fought that Frenchman grim with guile; For nigh an hour they milled ...
Lancelot (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too (Ogden Nash Poems)
Foreigners are people somewhere else, Natives are people at home; If the place you're at Is your habitat, You're a ...
An All-Night Sea Fight (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
The Battle of Cressy (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 26th of August, the sun was burning hot, In the year of 1346, which will never be ...
The Death of Captain Ward (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas about the beginning of the past century Billy Bowls was pressed into the British Navy, And conveyed on board ...
The Present (Philip Levine Poems)
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...