Eclogue (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
JANE SNEED BEGAN IT: My poor John, alas,Ten years ago, pretty it was in a ringTo run as boys and ...
Poems about mortally (21 Poems)
Marthy Virginia’s Hand (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
"There, on the left!" said the colonel: the battlehad shuddered and faded away,Wraith of a fiery enchantment that left onlyashes ...
Vaunting Oak (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
He is a tower unleaning. But how he'll breakIf Heaven assault him with full wind and sleet,And what uproar tall ...
Easter Road (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Under the cloud of world-wide war,While earth is drenched with sorrow,I have no heart for idle merrymaking,Or for the fashioning ...
Stonewall Jackson (Herman Melville Poems)
Mortally Wounded at ChancellorsvilleThe Man who fiercest charged in fight, Whose sword and prayer were long — Stonewall! Even him who stoutly stood ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Second (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
But not all unprepared were found the Medes. With restless foot, Belesis through the night, Still to and fro had ...
The Empty Purse–A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son (George Meredith Poems)
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
The Immortal Strain (Edward Dyson Poems)
Late Midshipman John Travers (Chester), aged 16 years. He was mortally wounded early in the action, yet he remained alone ...
Paradise (Edward Powys Mathers Poems)
Love Ballad of Kurdistan.Paradise, my darling, know that paradise,The Prophet-given paradise after death,Is far and very mysterious and most high;My ...
The Guitar (Federico Garcia Lorca Poems)
The weeping of the guitarbegins.The goblets of dawnare smashed.The weeping of the guitarbegins.Uselessto silence it.Impossibleto silence it.It weeps monotonouslyas water ...
Year’s End (Marilyn Hacker Poems)
for Audre Lorde and Sonny Wainwright Twice in my quickly disappearing forties someone called while someone I loved and I ...
My First Affair With That Older Woman (Charles Bukowski Poems)
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent, ...
As Toilsome I Wander’d. (Walt Whitman Poems)
AS toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods, To the music of rustling leaves, kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,) I ...
In Midnight Sleep. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 IN midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of the mortally wounded-of that ...
An All-Night Sea Fight (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
The Battle of Abu Klea (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Mars, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Herbert Stewart's little army, That made ...
The Battle of Sheriffmuir (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of November, Which the people of Scotland have cause to remember; ...
The Capture of Lucknow (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas near the Begum Kothie the battle began, Where innocent blood as plentiful as water ran; The Begum Kothie was ...
The Storming of the Dargai Heights (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 20th of November, and in the year of 1897, That the cheers of the Gordon Highlanders ascended ...
Modern Love XXI: We Three Are (George Meredith Poems)
We three are on the cedar-shadowed lawn; My friend being third. He who at love once laughed, Is in the ...
The Song Of The Chattahoochee (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain, Run the ...