Brightness Breaches and the Beak (C J Dennis Poems)
Bright young thing: Thou on the beaches Life is gay and pleasure ladenAll in vain the law beseeches ...
Poems about scoffing (21 Poems)
The Little Cripple’s Complaint (Ann Taylor Poems)
I'm a helpless cripple child, Gentle Christians, pity me; Once, in rosy health I smiled, Blithe and gay as you ...
XXVIII. Wisdom laugh’d at by the Multitude (Ellis Walker Poems)
Wisdom, you say, is what you must desire,The only charming blessing you admire,Therefore be bold and fit yourself to bearMany ...
A Prayer in Time of War (Alfred Noyes Poems)
The war will change many things in art and life, and among them, it is to be hoped, many of ...
On the Road to Chorrera (Arlo Bates Poems)
"THREE horsemen galloped the dusty way While sun and moon were both in the sky; An old crone crouched ...
Envy (Adelaide Anne Procter Poems)
He was the first always: Fortune Shone bright in his face. I fought for years; with no effort ...
Dearth (Edith Mirick Poems)
He had been cursed, like Midas,With the golden touch. Where his hand restedWas minted metal and its accumulation,Scoffing essayed control ...
WHEN THE FOX DIES, HIS SKIN COUNTS.* (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
(* The name of a game, known in English as "Jack's alight.") WE young people in the shade Sat one ...
THE FOX AND CRANE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ONCE two persons uninvited Came to join my dinner table; For the nonce they lived united, Fox and crane yclept ...
The peter-bird (Eugene Field Poem)
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
Madge: Ye Hoyden (Eugene Field Poem)
At Madge, ye hoyden, gossips scofft, Ffor that a romping wench was shee-- "Now marke this rede," they bade her ...
The Lyon And The Gnat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately Pace, ...
Elegy I: Jealousy (John Donne Poem)
Fond woman, which wouldst have thy husband die, And yet complain'st of his great jealousy; If swol'n with poison, he ...
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
89. The Ordination (Robert Burns Poems)
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...
Hymn 45 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The last judgment. Rev. 21:5-8. See where the great incarnate God Fills a majestic throne; While from the skies his ...
Psalm 119 part 10 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Pleading the promises. ver. 38,49 Behold thy waiting servant, Lord, Devoted to thy fear; Remember and confirm thy word, For ...
Psalm 39 part 1 (Isaac Watts Poems)
v.1-3 C. M. Watchfulness over the tongue. Thus I resolved before the Lord,- "Now will I watch my tongue; Lest ...
Barclay Of Ury (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Up the streets of Aberdeen, By the kirk and college green, Rode the Laird of Ury; Close behind him, close ...
The Little Cripple’s Complaint (Ann Taylor Poems)
I'm a helpless cripple child, Gentle Christians, pity me; Once, in rosy health I smiled, Blithe and gay as you ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...