The Shade Of Theseus – Ancient Greek Tradition (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Know ye not when our dead From sleep to battle sprung?—When the Persian charger's tread On their cowering ...
Poems about helms (21 Poems)
Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus (Francis Brett Young Poems)
Arthur is gone . . . Tristram in CareolSleeps, with a broken sword - and Yseult sleepsBeside him, where the ...
The Lord of Oc and No (Bertran De Born Poems)
The beautiful spring delights me well, When flowers and leaves are growing;And it pleases my heart to hear the swell ...
A Monarch’s Death-Bed (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
A monarch on his death-bed lay — Did censors waft perfume,And soft lamps pour their silvery ray, Thro' his proud ...
A Wish (Epes Sargent Poems)
That I were in some forest's green retreat,Beneath a towering arch of proud old elms,Where a clear streamlet gurgled at ...
Music (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
My friend went to the piano; spun the stool A little higher; left his pipe to cool; Picked up a ...
Before an Examination (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
The little letters dance across the page, Flaunt and retire, and trick the tired eyes; Sick of the strain, the ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
The Secret Rose (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those Who sought thee in the ...
The Magi (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ...
Prayer of Columbus. (Walt Whitman Poems)
A BATTER'D, wreck'd old man, Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home, Pent by the sea, and dark ...
Song of the Broad-Axe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
The Passing Of Arthur (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
That story which the bold Sir Bedivere, First made and latest left of all the knights, Told, when the man ...
Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
That story which the bold Sir Bedivere, First made and latest left of all the knights, Told, when the man ...
The Triumph of Life (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
Riding Together (William Morris Poems)
For many, many days together The wind blew steady from the East; For many days hot grew the weather, About ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
Rhymes for Gloriana (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. THE DOLL UPON THE TOPMOST BOUGH This doll upon the topmost bough, This playmate-gift, in Christmas dress, Was taken ...