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Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian (Laurence Hope Poems)

Softly the feathery Palm-trees fade in the violet Distance,Faintly the lingering light touches the edge of the sea,Sadly the Music ...

A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. V. The Workwoman (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)

"The Song of the Shirt,"— O heart-stirring hymn How sternly and terribly trueThe portrait of misery, ghastly and grim, That Bard of ...

St. John XXI. 1. (Joanna Baillie Poems)

TOIL-WORN upon their wavy sea,With empty nets and wasted store,The fishermen of GalileeAre steering cheerless to the shore.But lo! upon ...

Moments Reluctant To Pass (Isobel Stone Poems)

Time has dried up the sea,Swept the white clouds from the skyAnd washed out the heavens' infinite blue.Before my jaded ...

A Faith On Trial (George Meredith Poems)

On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...

The Bucolics (C J Dennis Poems)

Ladies and gentlemen: I take this opportunityTo introduce myself and mention that, much as we may deplore the fact, we ...

Beowulf (Episode 31) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)

So held this king to the customs old,that I wanted for nought in the wage I gained,the meed of my ...

Two Travellers (Cecil Day Lewis Poems)

One of us in the compartment staresOut of his window the whole day longWith attentive mein, as if he knows,There ...

Week-ends (C J Dennis Poems)

I don't know what's come to the summer In these dull and decadent years;But a fellow grows glummer and glummer ...

Elegy (Allen Tate Poems)

Jefferson Davis: 1808-1889No more the white refulgent streets.Never the dry hollows of the mindShall he in fine courtesy walkAgain, for ...

France: An Ode (Samuel Coleridge Poem)

EXCERPT] ... O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor ...

The Palace of Humbug (Lewis Carroll Poem)

Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...

Andrea del Sarto (Robert Browning Poem)

But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...

HUMANITAD (Oscar Wilde Poems)

It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...

The Triumph Of Woman (Robert Southey Poems)

Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o'er distant lands ...

The Wood-Cutter (Robert William Service Poems)

The sky is like an envelope, One of those blue official things; And, sealing it, to mock our hope, The ...

Five Bells (Kenneth Slessor Poems)

Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my time, the flood that does not flow. Between the ...

Sonnet IV (William Shakespeare Poems)

Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend, And being ...

Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend (William Shakespeare Poems)

Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And ...

Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend (William Shakespeare Poems)