Love and Sacrifice (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
CAN we not consecrate To man and God above This volume of our great Supernal tide of love? 'Twere wrong ...
Poems about stables (21 Poems)
The New Vestments (Edward Lear Poems)
There lived an old man in the kingdom of Tess,Who invented a purely original dress;And when it was perfectly made ...
The Papplewick Coursing, from Watnall (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
My master Noon and Marton 'SquireLeft Rolleston's comfortable fire,After good eating, drinking, sleeping,(Upon my word there's brave housekeeping.)Spite of rough ...
The Bellaires (Ezra Pound Poems)
The good BellairesDo not understand the conduct of this world's affairs.In fact they understood them so badlyThat they have had ...
Thrust And Riposte (Eugenio Montale Poems)
…The time has come, now, to suspend the suspensionof every worldly deception -wished for by you for me…Living on memories ...
They Can Take It (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
Yes, it's just a bunch of hosses standin' out there in the rain.The reason they are doin' it is easy ...
Prophecy (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
Some day--I have signs--a mortal stormIs coming from the far north.Everywhere is the smell of corpses.The great killing begins.The lump ...
Advent (Patrick Kavanagh Poem)
We have tested and tasted too much, lover- Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder. But here ...
Harp Song of the Dane Women (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey ...
Gentlmen-Rankers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, ...
The Peasant’s Confession (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Upper Lambourne (John Betjeman Poem)
Up the ash tree climbs the ivy, Up the ivy climbs the sun, With a twenty-thousand pattering, Has a valley ...
May 24, 1980 (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages, carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters, lived ...
Celebrate (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Celebrate our anniversary - can't you see tonight the snowy night of our first winter comes back again in every ...
Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass ...
The Black Sheep (Robert William Service Poems)
"The aristocratic ne'er-do-well in Canada frequently finds his way into the ranks of the Royal North-West Mounted Police." -- Extract. ...
Song Of The Jade Cup (Li Po Poems)
A jade cup was broken because old age came too soon to give fulfilment to hopes; after drinking three cups ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...
SONNETS TO EUROPA (Vlanes Poems)
Frost apple on a knotted whirling bough of dark becoming where it cannot be. So much both for the soil ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...