The Magnificent (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind;A triple engine prove in love we find;By these the strongest fortresses are gainedE'en ...
Poems about neighs (21 Poems)
Beechenbrook – IV (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
"I am weary and worn,--I am hungry and chill, And cuttingly strikes the keen blast o'er the hill; All day I have ...
Prarie Storm Rune (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
ITHE wild bee sips at the heat-drugged lipsOf the passionless lily a-nod;The sunflowers stare through the hush at the glareOf ...
The Crumbling Mound (R S Ward Poems)
Speak, crumbling mound, and tell to all the wood,How that beneath these weeds whereon I stray,A dark-roofed feasting hall of ...
Puck (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
She is sleeping on the grass,Where her daily footsteps pass;All her errands left undoneAt the bidding of the sun;From the ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXVI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT.Ahti, living on the island,Near the Kauko-point and harbor,Plowed his fields for rye and barley,Furrowed his extensive ...
The Nuptials Of Attila (George Meredith Poems)
IFlat as to an eagle's eye,Earth hung under Attila.Sign for carnage gave he none.In the peace of his disdain,Sun and ...
The Sinless Child Part 5 (Elizabeth Oakes Smith Poems)
The loud winds rattled at the door-The shutters creaked and shook,While Eva, by the cottage hearth,Sat with abstracted look.With every ...
Youth In Memory (George Meredith Poems)
Days, when the ball of our visionHad eagles that flew unabashed to sun;When the grasp on the bow was decision,And ...
How Jack Bowlin Steered Jones (Edwin James Brady Poems)
JACK BOWLIN wuz the joker's name, A sailor chap wuz 'e, Who left his ship, the Golden Flame ,To run ...
The Little Leaven (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
Poverty clad in its threadbare coat, Feeling its pocket for pence,Pitiful, patient, sorrowing, sad, Unknowing any ...
Our Dum’d Animals (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
What time I seek my virtuous couch to steal Some surcease from the labours of the day,Ere silence like a ...
Quebec (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Striking hard flint With his iron-shod flesh,A grandfather nagDraws an old caleche;Old caleche climbing Up a cobblestone hill,While river boats ...
White Horses (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Where run your colts at pasture? Where hide your mares to breed? 'Mid bergs about the Ice-cap Or wove Sargasso ...
Follow Me ‘ome (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
There was no one like 'im, 'Orse or Foot, Nor any o' the Guns I knew; An' because it was ...
The Magnificent (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
A MEMORY AT SIXTY (Barry Tebb Poems)
They have vanished, the pop men with their varnished crates Of Tizer and dandy, American ice-cream soda and one percent ...
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IT'S a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts. The banjo ...
from Venus and Adonis (William Shakespeare Poems)
But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by, A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud, Adonis' trampling courser doth ...
Sestina: Altaforte (Ezra Pound Poems)
LOQUITUR: En Bertans de Born. Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of ...
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (excerpt) (William Morris Poems)
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...