The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Poems about sirs (23 Poems)
The Fool Errant (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Fool Errant sat by the highway of life And his gaze wandered up and his gaze wandered down, A ...
A Tree Song (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(A. D. 1200) Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the ...
Song of the Wise Children (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1902 When the darkened Fifties dip to the North, And frost and the fog divide the air, And the day ...
Russia To The Pacifists (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1918 God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, But--leave your sports a little while--the dead are borne this ...
Poor Honest Men (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But ...
The Naulahka (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
A Carol (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Our Lord Who did the Ox command To kneel to Judah's King, He binds His frost upon the land To ...
The Hour-glass (Robert Herrick Poem)
That hour-glass which there you see With water fill'd, sirs, credit me, The humour was, as I have read, But ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
A proper trewe idyll of camelot (Eugene Field Poem)
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin (Robert Browning Poem)
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
243. Elegy on the Year 1788 (Robert Burns Poems)
FOR lords or kings I dinna mourn, E'en let them die-for that they're born: But oh! prodigious to reflec'! A ...
440. Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle (Robert Burns Poems)
STILL anxious to secure your partial favour, And not less anxious, sure, this night, than ever, A Prologue, Epilogue, or ...
55. The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie (Robert Burns Poems)
O A' ye pious godly flocks, Weel fed on pastures orthodox, Wha now will keep you frae the fox, Or ...
88. The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer (Robert Burns Poems)
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
87. The Twa Dogs (Robert Burns Poems)
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
A Mountain Station (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
I bought a run a while ago, On country rough and ridgy, Where wallaroos and wombats grow -- The Upper ...
The Defence of Guenevere (William Morris Poems)
But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand ...
Sonnet 11 (John Milton Poems)
XI A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon; And wov'n close, both matter, form and stile; The Subject new: ...
Rosemary (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
For the sake of some things That be now no more I will strew rushes On my chamber-floor, I will ...