A Night Vision In The Colosseum At Rome (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I sit upon a shattered shaft, as if Time, worn and blind,Had smote himself in sudden rage and left one ...
Poems about phalanx (21 Poems)
Brothers In Arms (Alfred Percival Graves Poems)
When behind her violated border, With unflinching bayonet and gun,Belgium, in heroic battle order, Met the savage onset ...
New Year’s Eve (Ernest Jones Poems)
DARKNESS on the endless sea; A wild, wild wailing cry;And the sun came down-like a ...
Worthy The Name of Sir Knight (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
ISir Knight of the world's oldest order,Sir Knight of the Army of God,You have crossed the strange mystical border,The ground ...
The Charge of the Swordfish (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Now when, beneath the riotous drinking,The witches found the liquor sinkingSo low their ladles couldn't reach it,The blacksmith with a ...
The Good Of It (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
A Cynic's Song.SOME men strut proudly, all purple and gold, Hiding queer deeds 'neath a cloak of good fame; I ...
Birds Of Passage (From The Swedish) (George Borrow Poems)
So hot shines the sun upon Nile's yellow stream, That the palm-trees can save us no more from his beam;Now ...
Mark (Ernest McGaffey Poems)
"THE HEAVY mists have crept away, Heavily swims the sun, And dim in mystic cloudlands gray The stars ...
Sonnet XL: “Beneath the stars and yonder waning moon” (George Henry Boker Poems)
XLBeneath the stars and yonder waning moon, Over the brooks that sparkle to the main, Through the plumed phalanx of ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
By Human Hands (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Off the road, into the woods a makeshift lean-to fallen, dry, peeling bark a phalanx of dead pine saplings leaning ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
The Summer Rain (Henry David Thoreau Poems)
My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read, 'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large Down in ...
Old Timers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM an ancient reluctant conscript. On the soup wagons of Xerxes I was a cleaner of pans. On the ...
Sonnet XL: On the Low Margin (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
On the low margin of a murm'ring stream, As rapt in meditation's arms I lay; Each aching sense in slumbers ...
Black Swans (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
As I lie at rest on a patch of clover In the Western Park when the day is done. I ...
Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas. (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas. Half the catalogue of ships is mine: that flight of cranes, long stretched-out line, that once ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
A Grave (Marianne Moore Poems)
Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...