The Smiling Listener (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
PRECISELY. I see it. You all want to sayThat a tear is too sad and a laugh is too gay;You ...
Poems about shelled (19 Poems)
Captain Von Esson of the “Sebastopol” (Henry Lawson Poems)
Of his beauty, or stature, or colour of hair I hadn't the slightest hint,But he comes to me as a little ...
A Confidence (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
UNCLE JOHN, he makes me tired;Thinks 'at he's jest so all-firedSmart, 'at he kin pick up, so,Ever'thing he wants to ...
Marthy Virginia’s Hand (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
"There, on the left!" said the colonel: the battlehad shuddered and faded away,Wraith of a fiery enchantment that left onlyashes ...
Apologies To All The People In Lebanon (June Jordan Poems)
Dedicated to the 6o,ooo Palestinian men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983.I didn't know and nobody told ...
The Road (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Out beyond Aldgate is a road,And a broad,Clean, noble thing it runs,For the sun'sAnd wind's and man's delight,And the high ...
With Death’s Prophetic Ear (John Sandes Poems)
Lay my rifle here beside me, set my Bible on my breast,For a moment let the warning bugles cease;As the ...
At a Calvary Near the Ancre (Wilfred Owen Poems)
One ever hangs where shelled roads part.In this war He too lost a limb,But His disciples hide apart;And now the ...
Napoleon (Billy Bennett Poems)
Hark to the guns, one a penny, two a penny, hotcross buns,Cannons and shells, Bombardier Wells, Looting and shooting, and ...
The Aisne (Alan Seeger Poems)
We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Where the flood-tide of France's early gain, Big with wrecked promise and ...
The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
The Habit Of Perfection (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music ...
Sam Goes To It (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Sam Small had retired from the Army, In the old Duke of Wellington's time, So when present unpleasantness started, He ...
The Iron Bridge (Billy Collins Poem)
I am standing on a disused iron bridge that was erected in 1902, according to the iron plaque bolted into ...
The Charge of the Second Iowa Cavalry (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
The Journey (James Wright Poems)
Anghiari is medieval, a sleeve sloping down A steep hill, suddenly sweeping out To the edge of a cliff, and ...
The Aisne (Alan Seeger Poems)
We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Where the flood-tide of France's early gain, Big with wrecked promise and ...
Full Fathom Five (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Old man, you surface seldom. Then you come in with the tide's coming When seas wash cold, foam- Capped: white ...
S. I. W. (Wilfred Owen Poems)
"I will to the King, And offer him consolation in his trouble, For that man there has set his teeth ...