The Ferryman (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
The ferryman, a green reed 'twixt his teeth,With hand on oar, against the current strongHad rowed and rowed so long.But ...
Poems about lamentable (21 Poems)
Affable Alf (C J Dennis Poems)
Have you heard the inscrutable mutable Alf,The mannerly man with the silvery tongue? Ever ...
Domum (Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff Poems)
(OMNIBUS WICCAMICIS)The green and grey and purple day is barred with clouds of dun,From Ypres city smouldering before the setting ...
Sonnet LXII: The Soul’s Sphere (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Some prisoned moon in steep cloud-fastnesses,-Throned queen and thralled; some dying sun whose pyreBlazed with momentous memorable fire;-Who hath not ...
After Paul Verlaine-III (Ernest Christopher Dowson Poems)
SPLEEN Around were all the roses red, The ivy all around was black. Dear, so thou only move thine head, ...
To One In Bedlam (Ernest Dowson Poem)
With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars, Surely he hath his posies, which they tear and twine; Those scentless ...
Elegy VIII: The Comparison (John Donne Poem)
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
There was a man with tongue of wood (Stephen Crane Poem)
There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable. But there ...
27. The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie (Robert Burns Poems)
AS Mailie, an' her lambs thegither, Was ae day nibbling on the tether, Upon her cloot she coost a hitch, ...
A Ramble in St. James’s Park (John Wilmot Poems)
Much wine had passed, with grave discourse Of who fucks who, and who does worse (Such as you usually do ...
Song at Sunset. (Walt Whitman Poems)
SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! Hour prophetic-hour resuming the past! Inflating my throat-you, divine average! You, Earth ...
Faces. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
On The Death Of Sir Thomas Lea (William Strode Poems)
You that affright with lamentable notes The servants from their beef, whose hungry throats Vex the grume porter's surly conscience: ...
Beachcomber (Robert William Service Poems)
When I have come with happy heart to sixty years and ten, I'll buy a boat and sail away upon ...
Nefarious War (Li Po Poems)
Last year we fought by the head-stream of the Sang-kan, This year we are fighting on the Tsung-ho road. We ...
Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti Poems)
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
The Battle of Waterloo (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
The Rebel Surprise Near Tamai (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 22nd of March, in the year 1885, That the Arabs rushed like a mountain torrent in full ...
The Sunderland Calamity (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the town of Sunderland, and in the year of 1883, That about 200 children were launch'd into eternity ...
An Ode in Time of Hesitation (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...