The Bombardment (Amy Lowell Poem)
Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city. It stops a moment on the carved head of Saint John, ...
Poems about lances (31 Poems)
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Amy Lowell Poem)
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Hiawatha’s Friends (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Two good friends had Hiawatha, Singled out from all the others, Bound to him in closest union, And to whom ...
Delicatessen (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Why is that wanton gossip Fame So dumb about this man's affairs? Why do we titter at his name Who ...
With Scindia to Delphi (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
The Story of Ung (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
The Light That Failed (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So we settled it all when the storm was done As comfy as comfy could be; And I was to ...
Cholera Camp (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights; We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as ...
The Ballad of the King’s Mercy (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told. His mercy fills the Khyber hills -- his grace ...
The Ballad of East and West (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
SIR CURT’S WEDDING-JOURNEY. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing, Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast, To his mistress' home repairing, There to hold his ...
THE MINSTREL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
"WHAT tuneful strains salute mine ear Without the ...
The Fatal Sisters (Thomas Gray Poem)
Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepares!) Iron-sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened ...
The Barrier (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
The Midnight wooed the Morning Star, And prayed her: "Love come nearer; Your swinging coldly there afar To me but ...
Lake Otamangakau (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I The roaring of Te Whaiau intake weir intrudes as sleep eludes again to soar across the lake on white-tipped, ...
A Crystalline Awakening (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
A crystalline awakening on the plateau, the crisp air as brittle as new celery snaps with expectancy. The cold clings ...
Narva and Mored (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Au Bal (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, The madness of the music that entrances All life ...
Au Bal (Aleister Crowley Poem)
A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, The madness of the music that entrances All life ...
The Destruction Of Sennacherib (Lord Byron Poem)
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And ...
The Voice (Matthew Arnold Poem)
As the kindling glances, Queen-like and clear, Which the bright moon lances From her tranquil sphere At the sleepless waters ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
At the Top of My voice (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
My most respected comrades of posterity! Rummaging among these days' petrified crap, exploring the twilight of our times, you, possibly, ...
Ode To Maize (Pablo Neruda Poems)
America, from a grain of maize you grew to crown with spacious lands the ocean foam. A grain of maize ...
EXCHANGE (Vlanes Poems)
Today your things depart. Your faience cup fell off the table at sunrise and cracked. Your old grey dog did ...
The Battle of Glencoe (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Twas in the month of October, and in the year of 1899, Which the Boers will remember for a very ...
The Battle of Omdurman (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me And King in praise of the gallant British Armie, That behaved ...
The Defence of Guenevere (William Morris Poems)
But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand ...
THAT KISS (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Fortune teller that I AM, My crystal ball sees ALL. Clairvoyant, the man's libido is flamBOYant. I SEE: ANIMAL MAGNETISM. ...
Summer Dawn (Spike Milligan Poems)
My sleeping children are still flying dreams in their goose-down heads. The lush of the river singing morning songs Fish ...