False Country of the Zoo (Jean Garrigue Poems)
We are large with pity, slow and awkwardIn the false country of the zoo.For the beasts our hearts turn over ...
Poems about reputed (21 Poems)
De Tea Fabula (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
Do I sleep? Do I dream?Am I hoaxed by a scout?Are things what they seem,Or is Sophists about?Is our 'to ...
Olympus (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Through female subtlety intense,Or the good luck of innocence,Or both, my Wife, with whom I planTo pass calm evenings when ...
Balin and Balan (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
Pellam the King, who held and lost with LotIn that first war, and had his realm restoredBut rendered tributary, failed ...
Our Life Is Twofold (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
Sweet, kiss my eyelids close, and let me lie, On this old-fashioned sofa, in the dim And purple ...
Sacred Song Of Ancient Mexicans – VIII. (Daniel Garrison Brinton Poems)
_Xochipilli icuic._ 1. Ye cuicaya tocniuaya ouaya yeo, ye cuicaya ye quetzalcoxcuxayoaltica tlao cinteutla, oay. 2. Can quicaquiz nocuic ocoyoalle ...
The Mussulman’s Dream Of The Vizier And Dervis (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Where is that World, to which the Fancy flies,When Sleep excludes the Present from our Eyes;Whose Map no Voyager cou'd ...
Mussulman’s Dream (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Where is that World, to which the Fancy flies,When Sleep excludes the Present from our Eyes;Whose Map no Voyager cou'd ...
A Few Lines to Beauty (C J Dennis Poems)
Girls!You with the bobbed hair or Mary Pickford curls,Likewise you others Who still adopt the hair-dressing style, That makes the ...
The Heroes Of Dovrefeld (From The Old Danish) (George Borrow Poems)
On Dovrefeld, in Norway,Were once together seenThe twelve heroic brothersOf Ingeborg, the queen:And they were all magicians,Possest of mighty art,Who ...
Ignoramus (C J Dennis Poems)
What crass, abysmal ignorance! Forlorn! Despite his looks, the man must be half-witted!They gasped for air; they gazed on him ...
United States (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
He shall be great who serves his country well. He shall be loved who ever guards her fame.His worth the ...
The Traveler (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler?—That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in ...
Fragment of a Greek Tragedy (A. E. Housman Poem)
CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Whence by what way how purposed art thou come To ...
The Pleasure of Princes (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
What pleasures have great princes? These: to know Themselves reputed mad with pride or power; To speak few words -- ...
Mithridates (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I cannot spare water or wine, Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose; From the earth-poles to the Line, All between that ...
Gregory Corso (Gregory Corso Poem)
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
Cape Breton (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Out on the high "bird islands," Ciboux and Hertford, the razorbill auks and the silly-looking puffins all stand with their ...
Balin and Balan (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
Guinevere (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
Villon (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
They threw me from the gates: my matted hair Was dank with dungeon wetness; my spent frame O'erlaid with marish ...