Francis II, King of Naples (Amy Lowell Poem)
Written after reading Trevelyan's "Garibaldi and the making of Italy" Poor foolish monarch, vacillating, vain, Decaying victim of a race ...
Poems about ploughed (26 Poems)
The Grog-an’Grumble Steeplechase (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
The Shanty On The Rise (Henry Lawson Poem)
When the caravans of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West, On a spur among the mountains stood `The Bullock-drivers' ...
Scots of the Riverina (Henry Lawson Poem)
The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time -- They were Scots of the Riverina, ...
Reedy River (Henry Lawson Poem)
Ten miles down Reedy River A pool of water lies, And all the year it mirrors The changes in the ...
The Fire At Ross’s Farm (Henry Lawson Poems)
The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the west Selected on his ...
Out Back (Henry Lawson Poem)
The old year went, and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought, The cheque was spent that the ...
Chaucer (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
An old man in a lodge within a park; The chamber walls depicted all around With portraitures of huntsman, hawk, ...
Beast and Man in India (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Written for John Lockwood Kipling's They killed a Child to please the Gods In Earth's young penitence, And I have ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
A Soldier (Robert Frost Poem)
He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust, But still lies ...
The Soldier (Robert Frost Poem)
He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust, But still lies ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Mirth And Mourning (Anne Bronte Poem)
'O cast away your sorrow; -- A while, at least, be gay! If grief must come tomorrow, At least, be ...
Chanson Un Peu Naïve (Louise Bogan Poem)
What body can be ploughed, Sown, and broken yearly? But she would not die, she vowed, But she has, nearly. ...
Going Back to School (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Up At A Villa- Down In The City (Robert Browning Poem)
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
John Barleycorn (Robert Burns Poems)
There were three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, An' they hae sworn a solemn oath ...
The Wargeilah Handicap (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
Towards The Imminent Days (Section 4) (Les Murray Poems)
In my aunt's house, the milk jug's beaded crochet cover tickles the ear. We've eaten boiled things with butter. Pie ...
The Battle of Waterloo (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
Wreck of the Schooner Samuel Crawford (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
Sisters (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
Sisters - Heaviness and Tenderness- you look the same. Wasps and bees both suck the heavy rose. Man dies, and ...
GRANDAD AND A PRAMLOAD OF CLOCKS (John Lindley Poems)
Wheeling them in, the yard gate at half-mast with its ticking hinge, the tin bucket with a hairnet of webs, ...