Before A Crucifix (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood,Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt ...
Poems about scourging (21 Poems)
Love And Death (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
Children of Fate, in the same breath Created were they, Love and Death. Such fair creations ne'er were seen, Or ...
The Vestal Virgin (Eloise Alberta Bibb Poems)
IVirgin of the vestal flame, Numa's child so chaste and fair,Ah! Floronia is thy name! Goddess of the raven hair;Weepest ...
Alexander Neuyll (Barnabe Googe Poems)
The Moutaines hie the blustryng wids The fluds: ye Rocks wtstadThe Cities strong, the Canons shot, & threatning Cheiftains had.The ...
Fra Pedro (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Golden lights and lengthening shadows,Flings the splendid sun declining,O'er the monastery gardenRich in flower, fruit and foliage.Through the avenue of ...
America (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Glorious daughter of time! Thou of the mild blue eye -- Thou of the virginal forehead --pallid, unfurrowed of tears-- ...
Hymns To The Gods – No. 2 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO POSEIDON. I.God of the mighty deep! wherever now The waves beneath thy brazen axles bow; Whether thy strong, proud ...
The Killing (Edwin Muir Poems)
That was the day they killed the Son of GodOn a squat hill-top by Jerusalem.Zion was bare, her children from ...
A Psalm For New Year’s Eve (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
A FRIEND stands at the door; In either tight-closed hand Hiding rich gifts, three hundred and three score: Waiting to ...
A Tribute (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
Blinded I groped—you gave me sight.Perplexed I turned—you sent me light.You speak unto a thousand ears:I pay you tribute in ...
Labouring With The Hoe (Francis McNamara Poems)
I was convicted by the lawsOf England's hostile crown,Conveyed across those swelling seasIn slavery's fetters bound.For ever banished from that ...
To Peace (Christian Milne Poems)
PEACE ! with thy placid mien,Who'st long a stranger beenTo Freedom's sons on Britain's rocky shore--O come! and with thee ...
The Freeman (Ellen Glasgow Poems)
Hope is a slave; Despair is a freeman.A VAGABOND between the East and West, Careless I greet the scourging and ...
The Atoner (Cale Young Rice Poems)
Winter has come in sackcloth and ashes (Penance for Summer's enverdured sheaves). Bitterly, cruelly, bleakly he lashes ...
Dragging Their Feet (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
How their feet must have been heaven on the Emmaus Road leading them from Jerusalem taking them back to their ...
Wearing a Crown of Thorns (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Stripped of his clothing soldiers drawing lots while he was yet dying the signs of his scourging his blood in ...
Cries of Our Savior (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The cries of our savior piercing the silence the long night of his suffering too much for him to take ...
We were the Whip (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We were the whip, the jeers, the scourging, the mocking of the soldiers bringing shame, pain, humiliation to the savior, ...
M’Fingal – Canto IV (John Trumbull Poems)
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Before A Crucifix (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
Mental Cases (Wilfred Owen Poems)
Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows, Drooping tongues from jaws that slob ...