Book III – Part 03 – The Soul is Mortal (Lucretius Poems)
Now come: that thou mayst able be to knowThat minds and the light souls of all that liveHave mortal birth ...
Poems about sputter (21 Poems)
Supper at the Mill (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Mother.Well, Frances.Frances.Well, good mother, how are you?M. I'm hearty, lass, but warm; the weather's warm:I think 'tis mostly warm on ...
The City Of Fear (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
This was a city once: women lived here;Their voices were low to their lovers, o'nights by the murmuring waters;Their hands ...
Roly Poly (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ROLY POLY'S just awakened,Wakened in his cosy bed,All his dainty ringlets tumbledO'er his shoulders, and his head:Roly Poly's cheeks are ...
“Them Old Cherry Words” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Pap he allus ust to say, "Chris'mus comes but onc't a year!"Liked to hear him that-a-way, In his old split-bottomed cheerBy the ...
Artie’s “Amen” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEY were Methodists twain, of the ancient school,Who always followed the wholesome ruleThat whenever the preacher in meeting saidAught that ...
Fido (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Hark, the storm is raging high; Beat the breakers on the coast,And the wintry waters cry Like the wailing of a ghost.On ...
Flash-Lights (Mary Aldis Poems)
ICANDLES toppling sideways in tomato cans Sputter and sizzle at head and foot. The gaudy patterns of a patch-work quilt ...
Brude (Cale Young Rice Poems)
(_A Dramatic Fantasy_) Dealing with: _Boadicea_, queen of the Britons. _Lamora_, a ...
The Death Of Huss (Alfred Austin Poems)
In the streets of Constance was heard the shout, ``Masters! bring the arch—heretic out!'' The stake had been planted, the ...
A Song From A Sandhill (Barcroft Henry Boake Poems)
Drip, drip, drip! It tinkles on the fly- The pitiless outpouring of an overburdened sky: Each drooping frond of pine ...
The Roaring Forties (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
Let me sail to the southward and follow once moreDown the great circle course where the latitudes roar;Where the wind-breasted ...
Sea Love (Charlotte Mary Mew Poems)
Tide be runnin' the great world over:'Twas only last June month I mind that weWas thinkin' the toss and the ...
The Allies (Amy Lowell Poem)
August 14th, 1914 Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry of hoarse throats, it floats ...
Crater Face (Denise Duhamel Poem)
is what we called her. The story was that her father had thrown Drano at her which was probably true, ...
Vienna, December 1999 (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
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 ...
A Song Of The Sandbags (Robert William Service Poems)
No, Bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh (The cove be'ind the sandbags ain't a death-or-glory cuss). And though ...
Smoke and Steel (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
Clean Hands (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IT is something to face the sun and know you are free. To hold your head in the shafts of ...
Fire-Logs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
NANCY HANKS dreams by the fire; Dreams, and the logs sputter, And the yellow tongues climb. Red lines lick their ...