The Apollyonists – Canto 1 (Phineas Fletcher Poems)
IOf men, nay beasts; worse, monsters; worst of all,Incarnate fiends, English Italianate;Of priests, O no! mass-priests, priests-cannibal,Who make their Maker, ...
Poems about pinioned (21 Poems)
Wesselenyi (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
A HUNGARIAN TALEWhen madly raged religious war O'er all the Magyar landAnd royal archer and hussar Met foemen hand to hand,A princess ...
To Moliere (Nicholas Boileau Despreaux Poems)
Unequaled genius, whose warm fancy knows No rhyming labor, no poetic throes; To whom Apollo has unlocked his store; Whose coin is struck ...
Merope (Henry Kendall Poems)
FAR in the ways of the hyaline wastes-in the face of the splendidSix of the sisters-the star-dowered sisters ineffably bright,Merope ...
Fifty Years (1863-1913) (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
O brothers mine, to-day we standWhere half a century sweeps our ken,Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand,Struck off our bonds ...
Be not Anxious (Hattie Howard Poems)
Of all the precepts in the Book By word of inspiration given, That bear the import, tone, and look Of messages direct from ...
O Cup Bearer (Shams al-Din Hafiz Poems)
OH Cup-bearer, set my glass afireWith the light of wine! oh minstrel, sing:The world fulfilleth my heart's desire!Reflected within the ...
Nathan Kale’s Statue (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Pinioned and bound as he stood erect,Smiling under the gallows treeThus let him stand, not vainly deckedFor a courtier's immortality.Just ...
Ruth Gouch (John Albee Poems)
Forth walked Ruth Gouch, fallen and disgraced; And all but women pitied her,As to the whipping-post shamefaced She came and leaned and ...
Birdsong (C.J. Sage Poems)
I am eagle; don't be fooled by red silkheels that sound so much like clanking clayon hardwood floors where you ...
Valse Jeune (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
ARE favoring ladies above thee? Are there dowries and lands? Do they saySeven others are fair? But I love thee: Aultre n'auray!All ...
Hero And Leander. The Fourth Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
Now from Leander's place she rose, and found Her hair and rent robe scatter'd on the ground; Which ...
Vesalius In Zante (Edith Wharton Poems)
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.I loved light ever, light in eye and brain-No tapers mirrored in ...
The Postures Of Love (Alexander Comfort Poems)
1I saw a woman in a green fieldThreading upon her hands the bright beads of songthreading her voice among the ...
The Comrade (Edith Wharton Poems)
WILD winged thing, O brought I know not whence To beat your life out in my life's low cage; You ...
Man and Woman. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
[According to Maori mythology, the god Tiki created Man by taking apiece of clay and moistening it with his own ...
The Death Of Huss (Alfred Austin Poems)
In the streets of Constance was heard the shout, ``Masters! bring the arch—heretic out!'' The stake had been planted, the ...
A Tornado (George Hannibal Temple Poems)
'Twas early eve, the gentle rain Sprinkled the fields from heaven's domain;And distant winds, provoked, began to play,When clouds, confused, ...
The Kite (Edward Alan Sullivan Poems)
UPON the liquid tide of airIt swayed beside a dappled cloud:It seemed athwart the sun to fareFull of strong flight, ...
The Hemp (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
An Indian Love Song (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
He Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy glory and grace, Withhold not, O love, from ...