My Name Was Martha (Martha Moulsworth Poems)
A Renaissance Woman'sAutobiographical PoemNouember the 10th 1632The Memorandum of Martha MoulsworthWiddoweThe tenth day of the winter month NouemberA day which ...
Poems about jeopardy (21 Poems)
A Gallery To The Temple. Intemperance (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Let them, who doe attempt both day and night, To sacke the fort of reason, Perverting Natures lawes, and order quite, Misuseing Time, ...
Brittle Beauty (Henry Howard Poems)
Brittle beauty that nature made so frail,Whereof the gift is small, and short the season,Flowering today, tomorrow apt to fail,Tickle ...
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 Borough. Letter XII: Players (George Crabbe Poems)
These are monarchs none respect,Heroes, yet an humbled crew,Nobles, whom the crowd correct,Wealthy men, whom duns pursue;Beauties shrinking from the ...
The Heir of Linne (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Part the FirstLithe and listen, gentlemen,To sing a song I will beginne:It is of a lord of faire Scotland,Which was ...
The Rising In The North (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Listen, lively Lordings all,Lithe and listen unto mee,And I will sing of a noble earle,The noblest earle in the north ...
When California Was A Foreign Land (Albert Pike Poems)
READ BEFORE THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF MEXICAN WAR VETERANS, JANUARY 16, 1874. "WHEN CALIFORNIA WAS A FOREIGN LAND!" How many ...
A Bunch (D H Lawrence Poems)
I tell myself an unfathomable lavender topI stand beyond the bunches of the springThe lip within ...
Three Hills (Everhard Owen Poems)
There is a hill in England, Green fields and a school I know,Where the balls fly fast in summer, And ...
The Buoy-Bell (Charles Tennyson Turner Poems)
How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls! That lonely bell set in ...
A Song In Storm (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Be well assured that on our side The abiding oceans fight, Though headlong wind and heaping tide Make us their ...
The Naulahka (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
The Merchantmen (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
The Coastwise Lights (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
From Nazareth to Jerusalem (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
From all he had known the first thirty years of life the son of the carpenter living his trade From ...
The Retired Cat (William Cowper Poem)
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1 (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
Lancelot (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...