A Tale of Tuscany (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
An Old-World tale. Who reads perchanceMay deem it dull or idly told,Preferring latter-day romanceWhere well trained hearts their loves unfold.Tuscany, ...
Poems about oncoming (19 Poems)
The Ghetto (Lola Ridge Poems)
ICool, inaccessible airIs floating in velvety blackness shot with steel-blue lights,But no breath stirs the heatLeaning its ponderous bulk upon ...
Seasonal Cycle – Chapter 03 – Pre Autumn (Kalidasa Poems)
"On the departure of rainy season bechanced is autumn with a heart-pleasingly bloomed lotus as her face, betokening the heart-pleasing ...
Custer’s Last Charge (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
On through the mist of the morning,On through the midday glare;A hard, rough ride by the Rosebud's side,Cutting swaths through ...
A Song For Soldiers (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WHAT song is best for the soldiers?Take no heed of the words, nor choose yon the style of the story;Let ...
Iowa & Other Accidents (Kate Northrop Poems)
There was snow that afternoon covering the roadwhich twisted toward the secretof water, the mysterious surgeof sludge & loam, the ...
Dear Reader (William Taylor Collins Poems)
Baudelaire considers you his brother,and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphsas if to make sure you have not ...
Through time and bitter distance (Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poems)
Unknown to you, I walk the cheerless shore.The cutting blast, the hurl of biting brineMay freeze, and still, and bind ...
Promenade (Lola Ridge Poems)
Undulant rustlings,Of oncoming silk,Rhythmic, incessant,Like the motion of leaves…Fragments of colorIn glowing surprises…Pink inuendoesHooded in grayLike buds in a cobwebPearled ...
Dusk At The Sea (Rachel Korn Poems)
Sunsets arelike the last hemorrhageof a consumptive,that floods the sky'sWestern rim,and embraces sorrow'sdecline,at the scarlet-red ribbon.The palm treeswith the oncoming ...
The Gunners (Gertrude Bartlett Poems)
WHO may the victors be, not yet we know;Our care, all sights set true, the shell in place,The flame outleaping, ...
The Last Crew (DuBose Heyward Poems)
I Spring found us early that eventful year, Seeming to know in her clairvoyant way The bitterness ...
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 ...
Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water (Allen Curnow Poems)
The typical tidal range, or difference in sea level between high and low tides, in the open ocean is about ...
Prelude (Edmund Clarence Stedman Poems)
"I SAW the constellated matin choir Then when they sang together in the dawn,- The morning stars of this first ...
Dear Reader (Billy Collins Poem)
Baudelaire considers you his brother, and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs as if to make sure you ...
If Mary Had Known (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
If Mary had known When she held her Babe's hands in her own Little hands that were tender and white ...
Cruelty and Love (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
What large, dark hands are those at the window Lifted, grasping in the yellow light Which makes its way through ...
The Tale of the Tiger-Tree (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...