The Pelagian Drinking Song (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Pelagius lived at KardanoelAnd taught a doctrine thereHow, whether you went to heaven or to hellIt was your own affair.It ...
Poems about infallible (21 Poems)
Night (Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski Poems)
My Madonna full of sin,framed in dream as in a broken mirror.Sultry night, the stars' granite on your shouldersand this ...
Fate, Or God? (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
BEYOND the record of all eldest things,Beyond the rule and regions of past time,From out Antiquity's hoary-headed rime,Looms the dread ...
Beggars And Kings (William Stanley Merwin Poems)
In the eveningall the hours that weren't usedare emptied outand the beggars are waiting to gather them upto open themto ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
The Ghost – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
With eager search to dart the soul,Curiously vain, from pole to pole,And from the planets' wandering spheresTo extort the number ...
Breitmann In Rome (Charles Godfrey Leland Poems)
DERE'S lighds oopon de Appian, Dey shine de road entlang; Und from ein hundert tombs dere brumms A wild Lateinisch ...
Breitmann Interviews The Pope (Charles Godfrey Leland Poems)
VON efenin ash der Breitmann vent from his weinhaus vinkin, So peepy mit Falernian vitch he vas starkly trinkin, He ...
Where Not Long Ago We Talked (Carlos Drummond de Andrade Poems)
It is an old piano, belonged to a grandmother, dead in another century. And it plays and it cries and ...
The Maids of the Mountains (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
In the wild Weddin Mountains there live two young damesKate O'Meally, Bet Mayhew are their pretty names;These maids of the ...
A Song Of The Sects (Cale Young Rice Poems)
(_In a Jerusalem tavern_)A Latin and Greek, praise God, are we, Armenian and Copt,And we're all drunk as drunk can ...
Lines Suggested By The Fourteenth Of February – I (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Ere the morn the East has crimsoned, When the stars are twinkling there,(As they did in Watts's Hymns, and Made ...
Parentage (Alice Meynell Poems)
When Augustus Caesar legislated against the unmarried citizens ofRome, he declared them to be, in some sort, slayers of the ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
The Pelagian Drinking Song (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Pelagius lived at Kardanoel And taught a doctrine there How, whether you went to heaven or to hell It was ...
The Well Dressed Man With A Beard (Wallace Stevens Poems)
After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. ...
Stepping Backward (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Good-by to you whom I shall see tomorrow, Next year and when I'm fifty; still good-by. This is the leave ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Beggars And Kings (W. S. Merwin Poems)
In the evening all the hours that weren't used are emptied out and the beggars are waiting to gather them ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...