M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule,First put the British troops to school;Instructed them in warlike trade,And new manoeuvres of parade,The ...
Poems about parading (21 Poems)
Notes On Vision (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
Look where we worship. We all live in the city.The city forms- often physically, but inevitablypsychically- a circle. A Game. ...
Betti o Lansantffrai (John Jones Poems)
Old King Solomon once said, before all thegreat people, that there was a time for everyactivity in the world. Some ...
A Town (Jane Taylor Poems)
A BUSY town mid Britain's isle, Behold in fancy's eye ;With tower, and spire, and civic pile, Beneath a summer sky :And ...
A Patriot (Khristo Botev Poems)
A patriot be - for knowledge, freedom,The soul's too small a price to pay!Mind you, not his soul, my brothers,The ...
The Drum (John Scott of Amwell Poems)
I hate that drum's discordant sound,Parading round, and round, and round:To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields,And lures from cities and ...
The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town ofBrighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.Slow in ...
The Wreck Of The Birkenhead, (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
A BRITISH TRANSPORT VESSEL LOST ON THE COAST OF AFRICA.A BALLAD. As well as I am able, I'll relate ...
Limericks: The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women (Anonymous British Poems)
MISTRESS TOWLThere was an Old Woman named TowlWho went out to Sea with her Owl, But the Owl was Sea-sick ...
Sterne (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I hate your Sterne, though still at times, When for a lighter half-hour yearning,I toss aside unfinish'd rhymes For Uncle ...
Drummer Boy (Billy Bennett Poems)
In an estaminet a French dancer one dayDid the can-can for soldiers' enticement;~She was doing her best when some stitches ...
girl (three) and the black horse (Rg Gregory Poem)
i want to hold the horse's string cried the girl (three) stamping her foot told by adults she was much ...
Without Cheering (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A quiet resolve a sense of some closure; but the pain still there our innocence gone Without cheering no joy ...
The Ancient World (Mark Doty Poem)
Today the Masons are auctioning their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, gemmed and ostrich-plumed, and operetta costumes labeled inside ...
87. The Twa Dogs (Robert Burns Poems)
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Ashes of Soldiers. (Walt Whitman Poems)
ASHES of soldiers! As I muse, retrospective, murmuring a chant in thought, Lo! the war resumes-again to my sense your ...
Drum-Taps. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city, How ...
The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
Fugue (Howard Nemerov Poems)
You see them vanish in their speeding cars, The many people hastening through the world, And wonder what they would ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...