History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow) (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
The Sun's in its orbit, yet I feel morbid.Act 1PrologueLadies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let ...
Poems about hottentot (14 Poems)
Bianca’s Dream – A Venetian Story (Thomas Hood Poems)
BIANCA!-fair Bianca!-who could dwellWith safety on her dark and hazel gaze,Nor find there lurk'd in it a witching spell,Fatal to ...
Change (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Change is the order of the universe.Worlds wax and wane; suns die and stars are born.Two atoms of cosmic dust ...
The Lion’s Ride (Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath Poems)
King of deserts reigns the lion; will he through his realm go riding, Down to the lagoon he paces, in the ...
The Lion Hunt (Thomas Pringle Poems)
Mount -- mount for the hunting -- with musket and spear!Call our friends to the field -- for the Lion ...
Behold! I am not one that goes to Lectures. (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
Behold! I am not one that goes to Lectures or the pow-wow ofProfessors.The elementary laws never apologise: neither do I ...
A Letter Written For My Daughter To A Lady, Who Had Presented Her With A Cap. (Mary Barber Poems)
Your late kind Gift let me restore;For I must never wear it more.My Mother cries, ``What's here to do?``A Crimson ...
The Farewell (Charles Churchill Poems)
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
The Foreign Legion (Billy Bennett Poems)
I've served in the French Foreign Legion It's Hell! The life couldn't be harder, For it's war to the knife ...
Almost Anything (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Superlatively sonorousLike a saxophone full of brass tacks and coffin-nails;Reverberantly rhythmical and rhythmically reverberantLike the quobbing of a foetus five ...
Bridge-Guard in the Karroo (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1901 ". . . and will supply details to guard the Blood River Bridge." District Orders-Lines of Communication, South African ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
The Princess (part 2) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...
A Letter To My Aunt (Dylan Thomas Poems)
A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach To Modern Poetry To you, my aunt, who would explore The ...