The City Streets (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A CITY of Palaces! Yes, that's true: a city of palaces built for trade;Look down this street-what a splendid view ...
Poems about juggernaut (19 Poems)
A Musing On A Victory (Sydney Thompson Dobell Poems)
Down by the Sutlej shore,Where sound the trumpet and the wild tum-tum,At winter's eve did comeA gaunt old northern lion, ...
Fall Of Superstition (Nathan Covington Brooks Poems)
A Prize PoemThe star of Bethlehem rose, and truth and lightBurst on the nations that reposed in night,And chased the ...
The God Who Waits (Leslie Coulson Poems)
The old men in the olden days,Who thought and worked in simple ways,Believed in God and sought His praise.They looked ...
“A Noted Traveler” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Even in such a scene of senseless playThe children were surprised one summer-dayBy a strange man who called across the ...
The Ballad[e] Of The Bore (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
I see him come from far,And, sick with hopelessness,Invoke some kindly star,—I see him come, no less.Is there no sure ...
Hedonism (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Since we must sleep the endless Sleep at last,Since Life's grim juggernaut 'neath ruthless wheelsCrushes the heart; since Age like ...
Shylock (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Cold craft and avarice look from out his eyes,His face with evil passion marred and seamed,Looks frowningly upon a Christian ...
The Factory Town (Ernest Jones Poems)
The night had sunk along the city, It was a bleak and cheerless hour;The wild-winds sung their solemn ditty ...
Caleb’s Vision (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
Caleb went, as was his custom, On a quiet Sunday morn,To the house of prayer and worship, Thither by devotion ...
Sunrise (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Weep for the martyr! Strew his bierWith the last roses of the year;Shadow the land with sables; knellThe harsh-tongued, melancholy ...
Farewell Cable Tram (C J Dennis Poems)
Now a sad farewell to the cable-tram, Staunch friend of the quieter days,That glided down thro' a leisured town Ere ...
Ask, and Ye Shall Receive (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
WHAT shall we ask? A Father hears,Who weighs our blessings, counts our tears,And when for bread we pray,We leave it ...
To ‘Little Belgium’ (Coulson Kernahan Poems)
I"There was war in Heaven" (Rev. xii. 7)Surely 'twas hell, not heaven, where first was war, Where first infernal ...
Song (Charles Harpur Poems)
THE world's heart is kindless and grey and unholy, As the head of the wandering Jew,And can never be ...
Letter To My Sister (Anne Spencer Poems)
It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,Or strut in the ...
Footnote To Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The ...
Dandelions (Craig Raine Poems)
'and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence' -- George Eliot, Middlemarch Dead ...
Black Harry’s Team (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
No soft-skinned Durham steers are they, No Devons plump and red, But brindled, black and iron-grey That mark the mountain-bred; ...