The Censor (C J Dennis Poems)
The Censor sits behind his desk, And smiles a censored smile; His great, blue ...
Poems about sodom (21 Poems)
From A Saxon Legend. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Within a vale in distant Saxony, In time uncertain, though 'twas long ago.There dwelt a woman, most unhappily, From borrowed ...
What Owest Thou (Abner Cosens Poems)
In blood bought Belgian trenches, On stormy Northern Sea, Brave hearts of oak are watching, ...
Aux Ternes (Francis W L Adams Poems)
(PARIS)SHE. - "Up and down, up and down,From early eve to early day.Life is quicker in the town;When you've leisure, ...
The Wisdom of Folly (Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler Poems)
The cynics say that every roseIs guarded by a thorn that growsTo spoil our posies:But I no pleasure therefore lack;I ...
Summer Heat (Eugene Field Poems)
Nay, why discuss this summer heat, Of which vain people tell? Oh, sinner, rather were it meet To ...
The Ennuye (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
My days are as a garden, where the dustOf acrid fruits of Sodom sows the ground,And bows vermillion lillies lofty-crowned,Or ...
The Commination (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
He that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last ...
Commination (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
He that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last ...
HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
Frances (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
519. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election-No. 2 (Robert Burns Poems)
FY, let us a' to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin' there; For Murray's light horse are to muster, And ...
350. Epistle to John Maxwell, Esq., of Terraughty (Robert Burns Poem)
HEALTH to the Maxwell's veteran Chief! Health, aye unsour'd by care or grief: Inspir'd, I turn'd Fate's sibyl leaf, This ...
Lot’s Wife (Anna Akhmatova Poems)
And the just man trailed God's shining agent, over a black mountain, in his giant track, while a restless voice ...
Song (John Wilmot Poems)
Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight, "I'd fain have a prick, knew I how to come by't. I ...
Hymn 22 (Isaac Watts Poems)
With God is terrible majesty. Terrible God, that reign'st on high, How awful is thy thund'ring hand! Thy fiery bolts, ...
Psalm 11 (Isaac Watts Poems)
God loves the righteous and hates the wicked. My refuge is the God of love; Why do my foes insult ...
Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait (Dylan Thomas Poems)
The bows glided down, and the coast Blackened with birds took a last look At his thrashing hair and whale-blue ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...