The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed,The sort of lover, avaricious named;And if in opposites we reason see,The liberal in ...
Poems about preyed (21 Poems)
Colhorn (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Lo, a castle, tall, lake-mirrored, Ringed around by mountain forms,Roofless, ruined, still defying Summer's rains and winter's storms.Every shattered lifeless window, Every stone ...
The Retrospect: CWM Elan, 1812 (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
A scene, which 'wildered fancy viewedIn the soul's coldest solitude,With that same scene when peaceful loveFlings rapture's colour o'er the ...
The Lordship Of Corfu (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A LEGEND OF 1516.WHAT time o'er gory lands and threatening seasFair fortune, wearied, fled the Genoese--What time from many a ...
Ben Allah Achmet, or, the Fatal Tum (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
I once did know a Turkish manWhom I upon a two-pair-back met,His name it was EFFENDI KHANBACKSHEESH PASHA BEN ALLAH ...
For My People (Margaret Walker Poems)
For my people everywhere singing their slave songsrepeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their bluesand jubilees, praying their prayers ...
In And Out Of Church (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
Dogmadealer, talking treason,Spurning truth, perverting reasonIn and out of folly's season Year by yearOh, a plague on all the twaddleIn your ...
Kept The Flag Floating (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
"Thank God, we have kept the flag floating."-- General White.Some men, like French, display much dash; They boldly rush upon the ...
Brigit Of The Judgments (Nora Jane Hopper Chesson Poems)
I am Brigit—Wisdom, Light: yea, I am Bride.I loosen all the knots that wrong has tied;I knot all threads that ...
Brother Mine (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
Prejudice with venom smote every word and act;Snuffed was the light of knowledge from your view.Unbefriended martyr, sole object of ...
Somnium Mystici (George MacDonald Poems)
A Microcosm In Terza RimaI.Quiet I lay at last, and knew no moreWhether I breathed or not, so worn I ...
The Bakchesarian (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Poems)
A TALE OF THE TAURIDE.Mute sat Giray, with downcast eye, As though some spell in sorrow bound him,His slavish courtiers ...
The Voyage Of St. Brendan A.D. 545 – The Buried City (Denis Florence MacCarthy Poems)
Beside that giant stream that foams and swellsBetwixt Hy-Conaill and Moyarta's shore,And guards the isle where good Senanus dwells,A gentle ...
The Bear Hunt (Abraham Lincoln Poems)
A wild-bear chace, didst never see? Then hast thou lived in vain.Thy richest bump of glorious glee, Lies ...
Dreaming Of Li Bai (2) (Du Fu Poems)
Clouds drifting the whole day;a traveler traveling who never arrives.Three nights you have been in my dreams;as your friend, I ...
Sonnet I: “When to his class the surgeon’s skilful blade” (George Henry Boker Poems)
IWhen to his class the surgeon's skilful blade Reveals the mysteries of the inner man, So lost is science, brooding ...
Sonnet CLXIV: “I pity him, unhappy gentleman” (George Henry Boker Poems)
I pity him, unhappy gentleman, Whom chance or luckless fortune has conveyed Into companionship with those who trade, Who always ...
Reaping (Amy Lowell Poem)
You want to know what's the matter with me, do yer? My! ain't men blinder'n moles? It ain't nothin' new, ...
The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The Dream (Lord Byron Poem)
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...