Tortoise (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
On the stony spurs of PieriusThe Muses conducted the first round danceSo like bees, blind lyrists might give us Ionic ...
Poems about grandsons (21 Poems)
From Iphigenia In Tauris (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
ACT IV. SCENE 5.SONG OF THE FATES.The deities dread!The mastery hold theyIn hands all-eternal,And use them, unquestioned,What manner they like.Let ...
Let’s Drink Wine (Li Ho Poems)
Hsi and Ho gallop their six steedsDays and nights leave us no leisure,Chasing the crow to Mount Yan-zi's bamboos,They flog ...
Ballad of the Savage Tiger (Li Ho Poems)
No one attacks it with a long lance,No one plies a strong cross-bow.Suckling its grandsons, rearing its cubs,It trains them ...
The Great Summons [from the Chinese] (Arthur Waley Poems)
Green Spring receivethThe vacant earth;The white sun shineth;Spring wind provokethTo burst and burgeonEach sprout and flower.In those dark caves where ...
The New Englishman (F W Moorman Poems)
I've lived all my life i' Keighley, I'm a Yorkshire artisan;An' when I were just turned seventy I ...
The Pitiful Young Prince (Du Fu Poems)
Hooded crows fly at night over the walls of Chang'an,uttering harsh cries above Welcoming Autumn Gate,then head for ...
Old Town Types – Captain Curly Taplin (C J Dennis Poems)
I can not recall his heyday; for I knew him in the dayWhen his curly hair had thinned a bit, ...
The Man Bitten By Fleas (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
A Peevish Fellow laid his Head On Pillows, stuff'd with Down; But was no sooner warm in Bed, With hopes ...
The Dwarfs of Tao-Chou (Bai JuYi Poems)
In the land of Tao-chouMany of the people are dwarfs;The tallest of them never grow to more than three feet.They ...
Grodek (Georg Trakl Poems)
At evening the autumn woodlands ringWith deadly weapons. Over the golden plainsAnd lakes of blue, the sunMore darkly rolls. The ...
Celebrating The Goodness Of The Descendants Of King Wan (Confucius Poems)
As the feet of the _lin_, which avoid each living thing, So our prince's noble sons no harm to men ...
The Man Who Raised Charlestown (Henry Lawson Poem)
They were hanging men in Buckland who would not cheer King George - The parson from his pulpit and the ...
The Mary Gloster (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
The Summit Redwood (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Only stand high a long enough time your lightning will come; that is what blunts the peaks of redwoods; But ...
Charlene-n-Booker 4ever (Forrest Hamer Poem)
And the old men, supervising grown grandsons, nephews, any man a boy given this chance of making a new sidewalk ...
DEDICATION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared The gentle sleep that round my senses clung, And I, awak'ning, from my ...
The Man Bitten By Fleas (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Peevish Fellow laid his Head On Pillows, stuff'd with Down; But was no sooner warm in Bed, With hopes ...
Faces. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
King Arthur’s Men Have Come Again (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
King Arthur's men have come again. They challenge everywhere The ...