How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
Poems about lacerated (20 Poems)
Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?'Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,How ...
Commencement (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Some to Aonian lyres of silver soundWith winning elegance attune their song,Form'd to sink lightly on the soothed sense,And charm ...
The Dream Of Dread (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I have lain for an hour or twain Awake, and the tempest is beating On the roof, and the sleet on the ...
To My First Love (Khristo Botev Poems)
Put aside that song of love,do not fill my heart with pain -I'm young but I don't know of youthand ...
XXII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Her sweet face took from me all thoughts of the wild white rose:Her ringlets eradicated all consideration of the musk ...
LXXXIX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Of the preciousness of youth what doubt can be entertained?The period of old age is pregnant with infirmities and defects!Every ...
XXXVII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
I am well acquainted with Aurangzeb's justice, and equity-His orthodoxy in matters of faith-his self-denial and fasts;His own brothers, time ...
Weary (Sir Henry Parkes Poems)
WEARY of the ceaseless warBeating down the baffled soul,-Thoughts that like a scimitarSmite us fainting at the goal.Weary of the ...
The Dance To Death. Act II (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT II.--At Eisenach.SCENE I. A Room in the LANDGRAVE'S Palace. FREDERICK THE GRAVE and HENRY SCHNETZEN.LANDGRAVE.Who tells thee of my ...
A Lament For Dixie (Albert Pike Poems)
Southrons, conquered, subjugated, Mourn your country devastated! Mourn for hapless, hopeless Dixie! Homes once happy, desolated, Church and altar desecrated; ...
A Convict’s Lament on the Death of Captain Logan (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
I am a native of the land of Erin,and lately banished from that lovely shore;I left behind my aged parentsand ...
Moreton Bay (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
One Sunday morning, as I went walking,By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray.I heard a pris'ner his fate bewailingWhile on ...
Written On A Rainy Good Friday (Charlotte Eliza Dixon Poems)
WEEP , ye Heavens! weep, I say!My tears shall swell your gushing torrent!A deed most foul was done to-day,Which neither ...
Ben Backstay (Charles Dibdin Poems)
Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna:Constant as purity was she;Her honey words, like succ'ring mannaCheer'd him each voyage he made ...
A Felicitous Life (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
His old age fell on years of abundant harvest. There were no earthquakes, droughts or floods. It seemed as if ...
Rock (Chihwan Yu Poems)
Let me become a rock after death.Neither tainted by pathos of love.Nor moved by human mirth and wrath,but as carved ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Wolf Knife (Donald Hall Poem)
In the mid August, in the second year of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter almost ...
Death’s Way (Robert William Service Poems)
Old Man Death's a lousy heel who will not play the game: Let Graveyard yawn and doom down crash, he'll ...