Death and Birth (George MacDonald Poems)
'Tis the midnight hour; I heardThe Abbey-bell give out the word.Seldom is the lamp-ray shedOn some dwarfed foot-farer's headIn the ...
Poems about listlessly (21 Poems)
The Quails (Francis Brett Young Poems)
(In the south of Italy the peasants put out the eyes of a captured quailso that its cries may attract ...
Early Morning Tea (C J Dennis Poems)
You are growing convalescent As pain's fingers are withdrawn;And you waken in a strange, white room at last; Yet your ...
The war Widow (Alfred Noyes Poems)
I.Black-veiled, black-gowned, she rides in bus and train, With eyes that fill too listlessly for tears.Her waxen hands clasp and ...
Our Heritage (Alexander Bathgate Poems)
A Perfect peaceful stillness reigns,Not e'en a passing playful breezeThe sword-shaped flax blades gently stirs:The vale and slopes of rising ...
Three Per Cent A Month (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"Soft April sunshine sweetens all the world, Yes, even the county-town with smells of spring; And life is busy where ...
Two Boys And A Cigarette (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Two bright little fellows, named Harry and Will,Were just the same age and the same size untilOne day in their ...
Drought (Flexmore Hudson Poems)
Midsummer noon: and the timbered wallsstart in the heat;and the children sag listlessly over the desks,with bloodless faces oozing sweatsipped ...
The Forsaken Maiden (Eduard Morike Poems)
Early when cocks do crow Ere the stars dwindle, Down to the hearth I go, Fire must I ...
Suicide (Djuna Barnes Poems)
Corpse AThey brought her in, a shattered smallCocoon,With a little bruised body likeA startled moon;And all the subtle symphonies of ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama (Andrew Hudgins Poem)
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...
To let them die peace (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
There wasn't room for sympathy, the epicentre moved too rapidly for that and even when we knew the anger of ...
It seldom snowed, they said – Part I (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
Heritage (Countee Cullen Poem)
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
Orlie Wilde (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A goddess, with a siren's grace,-- A sun-haired girl on a craggy place Above a bay where fish-boats lay Drifting ...
CHARMIDES (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
In The Gold Room – A Harmony (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees ...
Centenarian’s Story, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen;) Up the path you ...
THE ROAD TO HAWORTH MOOR (Barry Tebb Poems)
for Brenda Williams The dawn cracked with ice, with fire grumbling in the grate, With ire in the homes we ...
My Mother (Claude McKay Poems)
I Reg wished me to go with him to the field, I paused because I did not want to go; ...