Faces In The Street (Henry Lawson Poem)
They lie, the men who tell us for reasons of their own That want is here a stranger, and that ...
Poems about pleads (21 Poems)
Bruise blue (Dale Harcombe Poem)
Frail as smoke, she drifts through the crowded train, bringing with her the cold ashes of poverty. Without a word, ...
The Whipping (Robert Hayden Poem)
The old woman across the way is whipping the boy again and shouting to the neighborhood her goodness and his ...
Repent and Live (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wanting all to live God pleads with us each one of us to be judged brought before our maker Called ...
The Spleen (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea -- Forgets her own locality -- As I -- toward Thee -- She ...
Verses Turned… (John Betjeman Poem)
Across the wet November night The church is bright with candlelight And waiting Evensong. A single bell with plaintive strokes ...
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 ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
61. Second Epistle to J. Lapraik (Robert Burns Poems)
WHILE new-ca'd kye rowte at the stake An' pownies reek in pleugh or braik, This hour on e'enin's edge I ...
The Eternal Goodness (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O Friends! with whom my feet have trod The quiet aisles of prayer, Glad witness to your zeal for God ...
Hymn 149 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The offices of Christ. From several scriptures. Join all the names of love and power That ever men or angels ...
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. ...
Tired And Unhappy, You Think Of Houses (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Tired and unhappy, you think of houses Soft-carpeted and warm in the December evening, While snow's white pieces fall past ...
The Outlaw (Robert William Service Poems)
A wild and woeful race he ran Of lust and sin by land and sea; Until, abhorred of God and ...
Ommission (Robert William Service Poems)
What man has not betrayed Some sacred trust? If haply you are made Of honest dust, Vaunt not of glory ...
Requiescat (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Tonight my love is sleeping cold Where none may see and none shall pass. The daisies quicken in the mold, ...
The Dramatists (Dorothy Parker Poems)
A string of shiny days we had, A spotless sky, a yellow sun; And neither you nor I was sad ...
Modern Love XLIX: He Found Her (George Meredith Poems)
He found her by the ocean's moaning verge, Nor any wicked change in her discerned; And she believed his old ...
Special Pleading (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Time, hurry my Love to me: Haste, haste! Lov'st not good company? Here's but a heart-break sandy waste 'Twixt Now ...