RAIN IN SUMMER (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, ...
Poems about oxen (31 Poems)
AUTUMN (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain, With banners, by great gales incessant fanned, Brighter than brightest silks of Samarcand, ...
The Hermit Goes Up Attic (Maxine Kumin Poem)
Up attic, Lucas Harrison, God rest his frugal bones, once kept a tidy account by knifecut of some long-gone harvest. ...
Kings (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For the Rev. James B. Dollard) The Kings of the earth are men of might, And cities are burned for ...
Puck’s Song (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
Morning Song in the Jungle (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
One moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride our track, And ...
Mowgli’s Song Against People (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines-- I will call in the Jungle to stamp out your lines! ...
Beast and Man in India (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Written for John Lockwood Kipling's They killed a Child to please the Gods In Earth's young penitence, And I have ...
The Lost Pyx: A Mediaeval Legend (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Some say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand Attests to a deed of hell; But of else than ...
The Oxen (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat ...
The Warm and the Cold (Ted Hughes Poem)
Freezing dusk is closing Like a slow trap of steel On trees and roads and hills and all That can ...
EPIPHANIAS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THE three holy kings with their star's bright ray,-- They eat and they drink, but had rather not pay; They ...
The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart (Jack Gilbert Poem)
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, ...
All Hallows (Louise Gluck Poem)
Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken. The oxen Sleep in their blue yoke, The fields having been ...
The Lord will Guide You (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like a pair of oxen yoked together the Lord will guide you if you are humble in your spirit submitting ...
Teamed with Others (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Teamed with others down through history all of us leading in the body of Christ Each of us charged given ...
Yoked with Others (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Maybe as our shepherd the handler of the oxen yoked with my sisters and brothers that we would act as ...
Time for the Fair (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The cold in the air reminds me of the country fair the candied apple, the hot burnt sausage sub the ...
Advent (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The approach, the coming, the hoping for the coming of the King, into our hearts as He came into the ...
Lincoln (John Gould Fletcher Poem)
I Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of ...
Horace iii. 13 (Eugene Field Poem)
O fountain of Bandusia, Whence crystal waters flow, With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe; A ...
Day’s End (Tu Fu Poems)
Oxen and sheep were brought back down Long ago, and bramble gates closed. Over Mountains and rivers, far from my ...
Ballad of the Old Cypress (Tu Fu Poem)
In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branches are like green bronze; its ...
The Mountain (Robert Frost Poem)
The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once: I noticed ...
The Apology (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Think me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Road and Hills (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
I shall go away To the brown hills, the quiet ones, The vast, the mountainous, the rolling, Sun-fired and drowsy! ...
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...