A Prayer (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
O LORD, the hard-won miles Have worn my stumbling feet:Oh, soothe me with thy smiles, And make my life complete.The thorns were ...
Poems about hard-won (21 Poems)
Alonzo And Cora – Part I (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
A TALE, FROM MARMONTEL'S INCAS OF PERUWHEN o'er the western world IBERIA'S bandsWith blood and rapine stain'd their guilty hands;When ...
The Wynnes Of Wynhavod. Act V (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
Scene I.The great Hall of Wynhavod House. The walls hung with old portraits, arms, trophies of the chase, and a ...
The Centennial Year (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
A Hundred years - and she had sat, a queenSheltering her children, opening wide her gatesTo all the inflowing tribes ...
The Story Of Clarice III (Constance Naden Poems)
HOW lightly men can love, how soon forget! I said--yet some there be not false or fickle: For one, the ...
Sym, Son of Joy (C J Dennis Poems)
Now Joi, the rebel, he had a son In far, far Gosh where the tall trees wave.Said Joi: "In Gosh ...
Kane (Fitz James O Brien Poems)
Aloft upon an old basaltic crag,Which, scalped by keen winds that defend the Pole,Gazes with dead face on the seas ...
The Comrade (Donald Marquis Poems)
HATH not man at his noblest An air of something more than man? -- A hint of grace immortal, Born ...
Roll The Cotton Down (Edwin James Brady Poems)
WE sing no song of Right or Wrong, Or War, or Fame, or Duty; Our chanty free it still shall ...
Old Town Types No. 16 – Mr Tank (C J Dennis Poems)
Twice one are two; twice two are four.I can still hear it floating thro' the old school door: Those childish ...
South Africa – 1899 (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Throned like an empress on the south-most height, Keen, clear and brave, her eyes gaze northward farTo where, still ...
The Irish Peasant Girl (Charles Kickham Poems)
SHE lived beside the Anner, At the foot of Slievna-man, A gentle peasant girl, With mild eyes like the dawn; ...
A Coral Island (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Girded by wastes of sounding foam, Slumbers unseen the fruitful isle;Day in, day out, the cloudless dome Looks down with ...
Cattle Land’s Farewell (Earl Alonzo Brininstool Poems)
There ain't no Cattle Land no moreThat isn't wire-fenced;Things ain't the way they was beforeThe Western rush commenced.The open range ...
The Faith of Old George Jones (C J Dennis Poems)
War raged around this troubled world, When I was but a lad,And into battle men were hurled, As some ambition ...
The Search-Light, Kimberley, 1899-1900 (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Dark night upon the leaguered town, And on the hidden foe;Anxious the distant nation waits For news of ...
This Is Bushido (A P Herbert Poems)
This is Bushido. These are theyWho show the West a nobler way.Do you remember, long ago,When earthquakes crumpled Tokyo?We passed ...
The Satrapy (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
What a misfortune, although you are made for fine and great works this unjust fate of yours always denies you ...
POEM TO BE PLACED IN A BOTTLE AND CAST OUT TO SEA (Barry Tebb Poems)
for Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters in a bus called 'Further...' Dear _______ and here's where the problem begins ...
A Brand New Life (Sukasah Syahdan Poems)
1/ My dearest child, my dearest love Come to Ayah, who has just come My dearest star, my brightest sun ...
Scotland 1941 (Edwin Muir Poems)
We were a tribe, a family, a people. Wallace and Bruce guard now a painted field, And all may read ...