Baby Tortoise (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
You know what it is to be born alone, Baby tortoise! The first day to heave your feet little by ...
Poems about progress (31 Poems)
The Fight at Eureka Stockade (Henry Lawson Poem)
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
The Land (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him ...
Endymion: Book I (John Keats Poem)
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
the people (Rg Gregory Poem)
tangwena says this is our land soiled by the blood of black centuries smith says the white tongue goes bang ...
ON THE LAKE, (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I DRINK fresh nourishment, new ...
The Progress of Poesy (Thomas Gray Poem)
A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A ...
Acting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Don't just stand by when your neighbor is in danger act, speak, rise up with the nations share love richly ...
Muddled (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
There is a disquiet in my soul Unable to focus To think about one thing At a time Unable to ...
Chasing La Luna (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Were we chasing her Or was she chasing us Down the road Under that starry starry night Lashed in the ...
The Hymn (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; And ...
The Bear (Robert Frost Poem)
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
There is a flower that Bees prefer (Emily Dickinson Poem)
There is a flower that Bees prefer -- And Butterflies -- desire -- To gain the Purple Democrat The Humming ...
No Man can compass a Despair (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Man can compass a Despair -- As round a Goalless Road No faster than a Mile at once The ...
I Mark Your Courage (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I had no profound feelings of shock or surprise to those matter-of-fact revelations which spelled the end of this chapter ...
Haircut today (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
I am having a haircut today, it is not a complex event requiring excellent foresight, careful planning or indecent logistical ...
The Winter Scene (Bliss Carman Poem)
I The rutted roads are all like iron; skies Are keen and brilliant; only the oak-leaves cling In the bare ...
The Song of Education (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
III. For the Creche Form 8277059, Sub-Section K I remember my mother, the day that we met, A thing I ...
The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
Self Communion (Anne Bronte Poem)
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Winter Stores (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
WE take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, ...
235. Song-The Fall of the Leaf (Robert Burns Poems)
THE LAZY mist hangs from the brow of the hill, Concealing the course of the dark-winding rill; How languid the ...
The Ashantee War (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1874, and on New Year's Day, The British Army landed at Elmina without dismay, And ...
The Battle of Alexandria (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
It was on the 21st of March in the year of 1801, The British were at their posts every man; ...
The Battle of Alma (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the heights of Alma the battle began. But the Russians turned and fled every man; Because Sir Colin ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
A Grave (Marianne Moore Poems)
Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have ...