On The Death Of The Queen (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Mary of Modena d. 1718 {1}Dark was the shade where only cou'd be seenDisasterous Yew that ever balefull greenDistructive in ...
Poems about mercenary (21 Poems)
The Faithful Friend (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
O, FRIEND! whose heart the grave doth shroud from human joy or woe, Know'st thou who wanders by thy tomb, ...
The Wars and the Unknown Soldier (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
IDry leaves, soldier, dry leaves, dead leaves;voices of leaves on the wind that bears them to destruction,impassioned prayer, impassioned ...
The Marseillaise (Ernest Jones Poems)
Sons of freedom! break your slumbersThe day of glory's drawing nigh,Against us tyranny's red numbersRear their bloody banner high. ...
The Stewed Samaritan (George Ade Poems)
Within a house of public entertainment There sat an ebon slave close at the foot Of a heavy chair topping ...
To Sir James Grant, Baronet (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
WHILE on the meadowy banks of Spey ,Slow steals along the rural muse,And sees the bordering flowers displayTheir native sweets ...
Apostrophe (Charlotte Smith Poems)
TO AN OLD TREE. WHERE thy broad branches brave the bitter North,Like rugged, indigent, unheeded, worth,Lo! Vegetation's guardian hands embossEach ...
The Nations Peril. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I fear the palace of the rich, I fear the hovel of the poor;Though fortified by moat and ditch, The ...
Heads And Tails (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
If a single man is studious and quiet, people say He is grouchy, he is old before his time;If he's ...
XXXVII: Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries (A E Housman Poems)
These, in the day when heaven was falling,The hour when earth's foundations fled,Followed their mercenary callingAnd took their wages and ...
As the Ruin Falls (C. S. Lewis Poem)
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am ...
Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries (A. E. Housman Poem)
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took ...
They Should Have Provided (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Browning Decides To Be A Poet (Jorge Luis Borges Poem)
in these red labyrinths of London I find that I have chosen the strangest of all callings, save that, in ...
83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night (Robert Burns Poems)
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
133. The Brigs of Ayr (Robert Burns Poems)
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
Botany Bay Eclogues 02 – Elinor (Robert Southey Poems)
(Time, Morning. Scene, the Shore.) Once more to daily toil--once more to wear The weeds of infamy--from every joy The ...
Poems On The Slave Trade – Sonnet IV (Robert Southey Poems)
'Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep As undisturb'd as Justice! but no more The wretched Slave, as on his native ...
To my son (John Matthew Poems)
You will realize this wisdom, When you are my age, and experience, Gained from being in vexing situations, Yet, being ...
Tom May’s Death (Andrew Marvell Poems)
As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on ...