The Landmarks (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.THROUGH the streets of MarbleheadFast the red-winged terror sped;Blasting, withering, on it came,With its hundred tongues of flame,Where St. Michael's ...
Poems about precedents (19 Poems)
The Peacock. (Mary Barber Poems)
Once Juno's Bird (as Authors say)Was seiz'd on by some Birds of Prey:They pluck'd his Feathers, one by one,Till all ...
The Empty Purse–A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son (George Meredith Poems)
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
A Few Remarks on Goats, Asses and the Dead Hand (C J Dennis Poems)
I don't mind kings and dukes and things; I don't mind wigs or maces;I don't mind crowns or robes or ...
The Centennial Year (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
A Hundred years - and she had sat, a queenSheltering her children, opening wide her gatesTo all the inflowing tribes ...
The Appeal Of The Chorus (Aristophanes Poems)
If A veteran author had wished to engage Our assistance to-day, for a speech from the stage, We ...
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 ...
My prayers must meet a brazen heaven (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
My prayers must meet a brazen heaven And fail and scatter all away. Unclean and seeming unforgiven My prayers I ...
Swimming in Molasses (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Life was simpler Before Offer Acceptance Revocation Time lapse Counter offer Silence as acceptance Acceptance as mirror image of offer ...
Kontraxtz (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I know, I know The word is contracts . Well. Notwithstanding. Aforesaid forbearance to assert Title manifest objection Ancient precedents ...
To let them die peace (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
There wasn't room for sympathy, the epicentre moved too rapidly for that and even when we knew the anger of ...
Moocooboola Dam (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For more than a billion years we've been nearly out of water; sincerely, a need repeatedly exposed in calamitous reports ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Adam’s Curse (William Butler Yeats Poems)
We sat together at one summer's end, That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked ...
Respondez! (Walt Whitman Poems)
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
Starting from Paumanok. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
Think of the Soul. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THINK of the Soul; I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul somehow to live ...
The Night Game (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Some of us believe We would have conceived romantic Love out of our own passions With no precedents, Without songs ...