Ode to the end of Summer (Phyllis McGinley Poems)
Summer, adieu Adieu gregarious season.Goodbye, 'revoir, farewell.Now day comes late; now chillier blows the breeze onForsaken beach and boarded-up hotel.Now wild ...
Poems about fugitives (21 Poems)
Charge Of “The Black-Horse” (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Our columns are broken, defeated, and fled;We are gathered, a few from the flying and dead,Where ...
La Veronique (Pierre Dupont Poems)
Quand les chenes, a chaque branche,Poussent leurs feuilles par milliers,La veronique bleue et blancheSeme les tapis a leurs pieds;Sans haleine, ...
January, 1795. (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
PAVEMENT slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving. Lofty mansions, warm and spacious ...
The Old College (Padraic Colum Poems)
Of the Irish, ParisTHE Lombards having gone back to their land,We, who might never flock to native landExcept like birds ...
The Damned (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
Martyrs, gunmen, angry wives,desperate husbands, and fugitivessnap their lives with guns and knives,lions and visions, jolts and jars,poison, plunges, and ...
Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever: Book X. – The Millennial Sabbath (Edward Henry Bickersteth Poems)
A Sabbath morn — softly the village bellsRing out their welcome to the sacred day.The weary swain has drunk of ...
Paraphrases From David’s Psalms (Emma Lyon Poems)
Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...
A Poem On The Fugitive Slave Law (Elymas Payson Rogers Poems)
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
Ode To The Setting Sun (Francis Thompson Poems)
Alpha and Omega, sadness and mirth, The springing music, and its wasting breath--The fairest things in life are Death and ...
In Iowa, Where the Plan for an Attack on Harper’s Ferry Was Explained and Adopted (Edward W Williams Poems)
Dear friends, let me to you relate A plan that I begot of yore,A plan to conquer, extirpate Slaveholding now ...
Cadet Grey – Canto III (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IWhere the sun sinks through leagues of arid sky, Where the sun dies o'er leagues of arid plain,Where the dead ...
Costanza (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fellThro' the stain'd window of her lonely cell,And with its rich, deep, ...
The Drug Clerk (Eunice Tietjens Poems)
"The drug clerk stands behind the counter Young and dapper and debonair…. Before him burn the great unwinking lights The ...
Immortal Love (George Edward Woodberry Poems)
Immortal love, too high for my possessing,- Yet, lower than thee, where shall I find repose? Long in ...
Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality-on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2 After ...
An Appeal (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Art thou indeed among these, Thou of the tyrannous crew, The kingdoms fed upon blood, O queen from of old ...
The Eve Of Revolution (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
The Road and the End (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I SHALL foot it Down the roadway in the dusk, Where shapes of hunger wander And the fugitives of pain ...
January, 1795 (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving. Lofty ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...