Of Prudence (John Denham Poems)
Wisdom's first progress is to take a viewWhat's decent or indecent, false or true.He's truly prudent who can separateHonest from ...
Poems about pretensions (21 Poems)
Macaulay’s New Zealander. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
IT little profits that, an idle man,On this worn arch, in sight of wasted halls,I mope, a solitary pelican,And glower ...
Possum Trot (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I 've journeyed 'roun' consid'able, a-seein' men an' things, An' I 've learned a little of the sense that meetin' people ...
An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. (Matthew Prior Poems)
When crowding folks, with strange ill faces,Were making legs, and begging places,And some with patents, some with merit,Tired out my ...
The Lowly Song of A Lowly Bard (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"My boast is not that I deduce my birthFrom loins enthroned, or rulers of the earth;But higher far my proud ...
The Spirit of Snow (J R Prior Poems)
By the mist clouds of fog that creep over the sun,By the twinkles of stars that ethereally run,By the surge ...
The Flaming Circle (Louis Untermeyer Poems)
Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table, Slept in my arms and fingered my plunging heart, I scarcely ...
Vigil (Katharine Tynan Poems)
At night, when all the house is still, Wide-waked the chairs and tables comeAnd yawn and stretch their limbs until The maids ...
Leander And Hero (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
COME , SESTOS and ABYDOS , aid my song;To you these elegiac strains belong.Your griefs with mine, ye wretched cities, ...
A Rhyme For The Time (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
What is to say, had best be said, So, Lilian, ...
Tale III (George Crabbe Poems)
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto I (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
A Family Epsitle To A Friend (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
DEAR BEATRICE , with pleasure I read your kind letter;On the subject, methinks, there could scarce be a better:How vivid ...
An Appeal to Women (C J Dennis Poems)
O ye women! WIMMIN! WEEMIN!!See our tears repentant streamin'!See the pearly drops a-gleamin', Streamin' from our rheumy eye!Mark our weskits ...
The Decision Of Fortune (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Fortune well-Pictur'd on a rolling Globe, With waving Locks, and thin transparent Robe, A Man beholding, to his Neighbor cry'd, ...
A Radical Flea (Donald Marquis Poems)
dear boss i wish you would speakto that lazy good for nothingboston bull terrier of yourswhom you call petepete has ...
Poetry Is A Kind Of Lying (Jack Gilbert Poem)
Poetry is a kind of lying, necessarily. To profit the poet or beauty. But also in that truth may be ...
On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture (William Cowper Poems)
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
548. The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad (Robert Burns Poems)
DIRE was the hate at old Harlaw, That Scot to Scot did carry; And dire the discord Langside saw For ...
Maternity (Robert William Service Poems)
There once was a Square, such a square little Square, And he loved a trim Triangle; But she was a ...
The Revolutionary (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Look at them standing there in authority The pale-faces, As if it could have any effect any more. Pale-face authority, ...