Hudibras: Part 3 – Canto III (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENTThe Knight and squire's prodigious FlightTo quit th' inchanted Bow'r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT' a ...
Poems about nurseries (18 Poems)
Aechdeacon Barbour (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
The Brahmin’s Lament (Henry Hart Milman Poems)
The hostility of the kindred races of Pandu and Kuru forms one of the great circles of Indian fable. It fills ...
Flora’s Party (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
LADY Flora gave cards for a party at tea,To flowers, buds, and blossoms of every degree;So from town and from ...
“Lines. . .” (Harriet Beecher Stowe Poems)
In the fair garden of celestial PeaceWalketh a Gardener in meekness clad;Fair are the flowers that wreathe his dewy locks,And ...
And the Bairns Will Come (Henry Lawson Poems)
So you've seen at last what we have seen so long through scalding tears:You have found what we-the People-we have ...
Guy (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Mortal mixed of middle clay,Attempered to the night and day,Interchangeable with things,Needs no amulets nor rings.Guy possessed the talismanThat all ...
Palinode-December (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Like some lorn abbey now, the wood Stands roofless in the bitter air;In ruins on its floor is strewed The carven foliage ...
After Sixty Years (Edith Nesbit Poems)
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer ...
To My Godchild-Francis M. W. M. (Francis Thompson Poems)
This labouring, vast, Tellurian galleon,Riding at anchor off the orient sun,Had broken its cable, and stood out to spaceDown some ...
Perch Fishing (Edmund Blunden Poems)
On the far hill the cloud of thunder grew And sunlight blurred below; but sultry blue ...
Ceremony After A Fire Raid (Dylan Thomas Poems)
IMyselvesThe grieversGrieveAmong the street burned to tireless deathA child of a few hoursWith its kneading mouthCharred on the black breast ...
The Old Rectory (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
They are going to pull down the old rectory next year,So I hear,And put up an ugly little redBrick one ...
In The Mountains (Andrei Belyi Poems)
The mountains wear wedding wreaths.I am ecstatic, young.In my mountains I feelA cleansing chill.A gray-haired hunchback climbsUp to me on ...
The Task: Book I, The Sofa (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
O Make Me A Mask (Dylan Thomas Poems)
O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies Of the sharp, enamelled eyes and the ...
Envoy For “A Child’s Garden Of Verses” (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
WHETHER upon the garden seat You lounge with your uplifted feet Under the May's whole Heaven of blue; Or whether ...
What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner Or Later (Ogden Nash Poems)
Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with. And with whom they breakfast with and ...