The Feast Of Stephen (Anthony Hecht Poems)
I The coltish horseplay of the locker room, Moist with the steam of the tiled shower stalls, With shameless blends ...
Poems about rectitude (21 Poems)
A Tribute To Friendship (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DECEASED FRIEND,MRS. SUCKLING,WIFE of ROBERT SUCKLING, Esq. of WOODTON HALL, Norfolk. ARE these sad ...
On Reading Some Elegant Commendations Of A Character, To Which They Were Not Appropriate (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
TH ' unfading wreath by Genius only won,Pleas'd I return to grace her favour'd son;For truth forbids her votaries to ...
Hope On, Hope Ever. Nil Desperandum. (Edward N. Marks Poems)
Don't despair; though Fortune frown,Fickle Fortune soon may smile:Don't despair, -- although cast down,'Tis only for a little while.Brighter days ...
The Rook And The Sparrows (Charles Lamb Poems)
A little boy with crumbs of breadMany a hungry sparrow fed.It was a child of little sense,Who this kind bounty ...
The Fowl (C J Dennis Poems)
A noble lesson this should teach, Dear children unto you.If other people's goods you reach,Of rectitude 'twill be a breach,Or ...
On a Columnar Self (Emily Dickinson Poems)
789On a Columnar Self-How ample to relyIn Tumult-or Extremity-How good the CertaintyThat Lever cannot pry-And Wedge cannot divideConviction-That Granitic Base-Though ...
The Guardian Angel Of The Little Utopia (Jorie Graham Poem)
Shall I move the flowers again? Shall I put them further to the left into the light? Win that fix ...
The Choir Invisible (George Eliot Poem)
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their ...
God Needs Antonio (George Eliot Poem)
Your soul was lifted by the wings today Hearing the master of the violin: You praised him, praised the great ...
On a Columnar Self — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
On a Columnar Self -- How ample to rely In Tumult -- or Extremity -- How good the Certainty That ...
Your Voices Joined Is All It Takes (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
Carol of Words. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
To a President. (Walt Whitman Poems)
ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages, You have not learn'd of Nature-of the politics of ...
The Emigrants: Book II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
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 ...
Fear (Robert William Service Poems)
I know how father's strap would feel, If ever I were caught, So mother's jam I did not steal, Though ...
Ode to Meditation (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
SWEET CHILD OF REASON! maid serene; With folded arms, and pensive mien, Who wand'ring near yon thorny wild, So oft, ...
The Adieu to Love (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
LOVE, I renounce thy tyrant sway, I mock thy fascinating art, MINE, be the calm unruffled day, That brings no ...
LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE (Edwin Markham Poems)
WHEN the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She left the Heaven of ...
Inheritance-His (Audre Lorde Poems)
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...