Vers De Société (Philip Larkin Poem)
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd ...
Poems about repaid (22 Poems)
The Fire At Ross’s Farm (Henry Lawson Poems)
The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the west Selected on his ...
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Sorrows Interest (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
When things are hard and troublesome, And life for you looks dim; Bills and debts grow daily, And finances seem ...
The Cost of Our Freedom (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As for our country so for our souls the cost of our freedom amazing to comprehend love poured out on ...
Two Plates (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Her hands extended, strain of the weight at the end of each offering plates full of our meager gifts hands ...
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, ...
Holy Sonnet II: As Due By Many Titles I Resign (John Donne Poem)
As due by many titles I resign My self to Thee, O God; first I was made By Thee, and ...
On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of Milton (William Cowper Poem)
"Me too, perchance, in future days, The sculptured stone shall show, With Paphian myrtle or with bays Parnassian on my ...
Vanity of the World (William Cowper Poem)
God gives his mercies to be spent; Your hoard will do your soul no good. Gold is a blessing only ...
Love and Folly (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
Love's worshippers alone can know The thousand mysteries that are his; His blazing torch, his twanging bow, His blooming age ...
Before the Birth of One of Her Children (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
All things within this fading world hath end, Adversity doth still our joys attend; No ties so strong, no friends ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
The Tear (Lord Byron Poem)
When Friendship or Love Our sympathies move; When Truth, in a glance, should appear, The lips may beguile, With a ...
Man in a Window (Ralph Angel Poem)
I don't know man trust is a precious thing a kind of humility Offer it to a snake and get ...
Harlan Sewall (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
You never understood, O unknown one, Why it was I repaid Your devoted friendship and delicate ministrations First with diminished ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
A Creed (John Masefield Poems)
I HOLD that when a person dies His soul returns again to earth; Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise Another mother ...
The Steeple-Jack (Marianne Moore Poems)
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...