Marshall’s Mate (Henry Lawson Poems)
You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn -- You could have watched the grass scorch brown ...
Poems about frighten (30 Poems)
Australia’s Peril (Henry Lawson Poems)
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son, For the wrong we have taken part in ...
Landscape of a Pissing Multitude (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
The men kept to themselves: they were waiting for the swiftness of the last cyclists. The women kept to themselves: ...
DRINKING SONG (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE PITCHER Come, old friend! sit down and listen! From the pitcher, placed between us, How the ...
The New School (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For My Mother) The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet Are still with ...
Single Vision (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
Before I am completely shriven I shall reject my inch of heaven. Cancel my eyes, and, standing, sink Into my ...
One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
The Law of the Jungle (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(From The Jungle Book) Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the ...
Addressed To Haydon (John Keats Poem)
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good, A loving-kindness for the great man's fame, Dwells here and there with people of no ...
Thinking Of A Friend At Night (Hermann Hesse Poem)
In this evil year, autumn comes early... I walk by night in the field, alone, the rain clatters, The wind ...
Wolf Knife (Donald Hall Poem)
In the mid August, in the second year of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter almost ...
adventure (Rg Gregory Poem)
just as the dusk comes hooting down through the shivering black leaves of the swinging trees we (the brave ones ...
Limbo (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
The sole true Something--This ! In Limbo Den It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men-- For skimming in the ...
Against Writing about Children (Erin Belieu Poem)
When I think of the many people who privately despise children, I can't say I'm completely shocked, having been one. ...
Inferno Canto02 (Dante Alighieri Poem)
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno toglieva li animai che sono in terra da le fatiche loro; e io ...
What Kind Of A Person (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
"What kind of a person are you," I heard them say to me. I'm a person with a complex plumbing ...
352. The Song of Death (Robert Burns Poems)
FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the broad setting sun; Farewell, loves and ...
The Future (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
The future: time's excuse to frighten us; too vast a project, too large a morsel for the heart's mouth. Future, ...
Hay and Hell and Booligal (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
"You come and see me, boys," he said; "You'll find a welcome and a bed And whisky any time you ...
The Hypnotist (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
A man once read with mind surprised Of the way that people were "hypnotised"; By waving hands you produced, forsooth, ...
TRIAL (Ruth Padel Poems)
I was with Special Force, blue-X-ing raids to OK surfing on the Colonel's birthday. Operation Ariel: we sprayed Jimi Hendrix ...
Departure (Coventry Patmore Poems)
It was not like your great and gracious ways! Do you, that have naught other to lament, Never, my Love, ...
A Disqualified Jockey’s Story (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
You see, the thing was this way -- there was me, That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare, And Ikey Chambers ...
The All Right Un (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
He came from "further out", That land of fear and drought And dust and gravel. He got a touch of ...
The Wreck of the Barque Lynton (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold, About Mrs Lingard, that Heroine bold; Who struggled hard in the ...
Broughty Ferry (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ancient Castle of Broughty Ferry With walls as strong as Londonderry; Near by the sea-shore, Where oft is heard and ...
King Arthur’s Tomb (William Morris Poems)
Hot August noon: already on that day Since sunrise through the Wiltshire downs, most sad Of mouth and eye, he ...
Us Two (A. A. Milne Poems)
Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are ...
The Procession (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
The legislators pass along A solemn, self-important throng! Just raised from the common mass, They feel themselves another class. --But ...
Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table (Claude McKay Poems)
Alfonso is a handsome bronze-hued lad Of subtly-changing and surprising parts; His moods are storms that frighten and make glad, ...