The Bas Bleu: Or, Conversation. Addressed To Mrs. Vesey (Hannah More Poems)
VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,Awhile my idle strain attend:Not with the days of early Greece,I mean to ope ...
Poems about pericles (19 Poems)
Quatrains (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
S. H.With beams December planets dartHis cold eye truth and conduct scanned,July was in his sunny heart,October in his liberal ...
The School (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
I WAS not drowsy though the scholars droned. Hearing the music that they made of Greek, Whenever Helen's unforgotten face Sent other young ...
Jim the Splitter (Henry Kendall Poems)
The bard who is singing of Wollombi JimIs hardly just now in the requisite trim To sit on his Pegasus fairly;Besides, ...
When Sheridan Hurled The Discus (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
"Pinch me; ay, punch me, for fear I m not sitting here reading the paper.Sure as the sun in the ...
The Only Way (Louis V Ledoux Poems)
IMemphis and Karnak, Luxor, Thebes, the Nile:Of these your letters told; and I who readSaw loom on dim horizons Egypt's ...
Loma Alta (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Scarred with the jagged wounds from ruthless hands,Despoiled, dishonored of my fair array, -The gold and emerald vesture of the ...
EIIOΣ (Albert Pike Poems)
CHAUNTED BY JACK SAVAGE, AT THE LIFE-WAKE OF THE FINE ARKANSAS GENTLEMAN, WHO DIED BEFORE HIS TIME, 1859.(Occasioned by a ...
Aspasia (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
O, ye Athenians, drunken with self-praise, What dreams I had of you, beside the sea, In far ...
The Origin Of The Peloponnesian War (Aristophanes Poems)
DICAEOPOLIS Be not surprised, most excellent spectators, If I that am a beggar have presumed To claim ...
Ode upon the Censure of his New Inn (Ben Jonson Poems)
Come, leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age; Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, ...
Message From Abroad (Allen Tate Poems)
To Andrew LytleParis, November 1929Their faces are bony and sharp but very red, althoughtheir ancestors nearly two hundred years have ...
The Hoary Precedent (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr. Pericles, M.P., In four-sixty-nine B.C.,Outed Cimon at a general election; Premier Cimon, thuswise ex-ed, Was quite naturally vexed,And ...
City of Dreams (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, we might have a marvellous city Were we only less keen on cashLess avid for things -- more's the ...
Ballade Of Dead Republics (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Tell me ye King-craft of to-day Where is Athens, who made men free; Then sank into stupor by the way, ...
Ode to Himself upon the Censure of his New Inn (Ben Jonson Poem)
Come, leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age; Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, Usurp the chair ...
The White Lights (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
When in from Delos came the gold That held the dream of Pericles, When first Athenian ears were told The ...
Gustav Richter (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
After a long day of work in my hot-houses Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side ...
This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(Being a Chant of the American Soap-Box and the Russian Revolution.) O market square, O slattern place, Is glory in ...