Of The Nature Of Things: Book VI – Part 04 – The Plague Athens (Lucretius Poems)
'Twas such a manner of disease, 'twas suchMortal miasma in Cecropian landsWhilom reduced the plains to dead men's bones,Unpeopled the ...
Poems about pyres (21 Poems)
The New Master (Pat O Cotter Poems)
As one who lays aside a task, where one has ruled alone,I lay aside the crown of hell, and give ...
Atlantis (Harold Hart Crane Poems)
Through the bound cable strands, the arching pathUpward, veering with light, the flight of strings,-Taut miles of shuttling moonlight syncopateThe ...
Falling Asleep Over The Aeneid (Robert Lowell Poems)
An old man in Concord forgets to go to morning service. He falls asleep, while reading Vergil, and dreams that ...
Fall Of Superstition (Nathan Covington Brooks Poems)
A Prize PoemThe star of Bethlehem rose, and truth and lightBurst on the nations that reposed in night,And chased the ...
The Pyres (Hermann Hagedorn Poems)
Pyres in the night, in the night! And the roaring yellow and red.Trooper, trooper, why so white? We are out to gather ...
Cambridge (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Dear city, round whose marshy rim the CharlesPasses his steel-blue sickle in slow glee,And, circling ever, slips at last through ...
In The Pine Barrens. Sunset. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HARK! to the mournful wind; its burden drearBorne over leagues of desert wild and dun,Sinks to a weary cadence of ...
Scythians (Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont Poems)
We are blessed hordes of freely roaming Scythians,More than anything we value freedom.Having quit the castle of Olvia with its ...
Strip-tease (Lawrence Durrell Poems)
Soft toys that make to seem girlsIn cool whitewash with two coralValves of lip printing each others' grease…A clockwork Cupid's ...
The Light of Asia: Book the Second (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years,The King commanded that there should be builtThree stately houses, one of ...
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 ...
Campo di Fiori (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
In Rome on the Campo di FioriBaskets of olives and lemons,Cobbles spattered with wineAnd the wreckage of flowers.Vendors cover the ...
To Lone (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
ALL day within me, sweet and clearThe song you sang is ringing.At night in my half-dreaming earI hear you singing, ...
Chant of Autumn (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Like the voice of a golden star,Heard from afar,Perishing beauty callsOut of the mist and rain;Like the song of a ...
Lines On The Loss Of The “Titanic” (Thomas Hardy Poem)
In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches ...
The Convergence Of The Twain (Thomas Hardy Poem)
(Lines on the loss of the "Titanic") I In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the ...
Mummia (Rupert Brooke Poem)
As those of old drank mummia To fire their limbs of lead, Making dead kings from Africa Stand pandar to ...
Hymn Of Man (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
Campo di Fiori (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
In Rome on the Campo di Fiori Baskets of olives and lemons, Cobbles spattered with wine And the wreckage of ...
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 ...