Any Saint (Francis Thompson Poems)
His shoulder did I holdToo high that I, o'erbold Weak one, Should lean thereon.But He a little hathDeclined ...
Poems about scans (21 Poems)
The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)
He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...
Hope. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Hope is the shadowy essence of a wish, A fond desire which floats before our eyes;With lurid aberration, feverish,-- We ...
Conducted Tour (C J Dennis Poems)
Walk up! Walk up to the Bureaucratic Fair!All the tasters and the testers and the tallymen are there. All the ...
Battle Bunny (Malvern Hill, 1864) (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Bunny, lying in the grass,Saw the shining column pass;Saw the starry banner fly,Saw the chargers fret and fume,Saw the flapping ...
The Poet (Alexander Anderson Poems)
The poet is not for the crowd; he stands An isolation from the multitude,And breathes a breath which comes from ...
Introducing the Day Family (C J Dennis Poems)
Sun Day is a simple child, Face new washed and shining;In the morning prim and mild - Church and ...
The Sandpiper (Celia Laighton Thaxter Poems)
Across the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast I gather, but ...
An Iceberg (George Hannibal Temple Poems)
From far Alaska's snow-bound shore, Onward it moves like some dim phantom sweeping, And silently the yeasty waves o'erleaping;With glass ...
Sonnet III: “As a lorn sailor clinging to the wreck” (George Henry Boker Poems)
IIIAs a lorn sailor clinging to the wreck, On which he starved through many a doleful day, Sees o'er the ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
The Summer that we did not prize, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Summer that we did not prize, Her treasures were so easy Instructs us by departing now And recognition lazy ...
Tremble (Michael Burch Poem)
Her predatory eye, the single feral iris, scans. Her raptor beak, all jagged sharp-edged thrust, juts. Her hard talon, clenched ...
Camma (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(To Ellen Terry) As one who poring on a Grecian urn Scans the fair shapes some Attic hand hath made, ...
MARGINALIA (Barry Tebb Poems)
Here is a silence I had not hoped for This side of paradise, I am an old believer In nature's ...
The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)
He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...
Sympathy (Robert William Service Poems)
My Muse is simple,--yet it's nice To think you don't need to think twice On words I write. I reckon ...
Octaves (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
Two Octaves (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I Not by the grief that stuns and overwhelms All outward recognition of revealed And righteous omnipresence are the days ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Edinburgh (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Beautiful city of Edinburgh! Where the tourist can drown his sorrow By viewing your monuments and statues fine During the ...