The Dong with a Luminous Nose (Edward Lear Poem)
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
Poems about staid (27 Poems)
The Plea of the Simla Dancers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Too late, alas! the song To remedy the wrong; -- The rooms are taken from us, swept and garnished for ...
Mortification (George Herbert Poem)
How soon doth man decay! When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets To swaddle infants, whose young breath ...
A Boy in Church (Robert Graves Poem)
"Gabble-gabble,. brethren,. gabble-gabble!" My window frames forest and heather. I hardly hear the tuneful babble, Not knowing nor much caring ...
Funny — to be a Century (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Funny -- to be a Century -- And see the People -- going by -- I -- should die of ...
I know some lonely Houses off the Road (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I know some lonely Houses off the Road A Robber'd like the look of -- Wooden barred, And Windows hanging ...
Where The Creek Used To Run (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
In ash-fine silt that spread like sand after the flood and before the wild weeds claimed the old stream bed; ...
Once there came a man (Stephen Crane Poem)
Once there came a man Who said, "Range me all men of the world in rows." And instantly There was ...
Vull a Man (Ingeborg Bachmann Poem)
No, I'm a man, I'm vull a man, You beat my manhood, if you can. You'll be a man if ...
Why Washington Retreated (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
1775 Said Congress to George Washington: "To set this country free, You'll have to whip the Britishers And chase them ...
Vull a Man (William Barnes Poem)
No, I'm a man, I'm vull a man, You beat my manhood, if you can. You'll be a man if ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
Dream Song 122: He published his girl’s bottom in staid pages (John Berryman Poems)
He published his girl's bottom in staid pages of an old weekly. Where will next his rages ridiculous Henry land? ...
A Dream (William Allingham Poem)
I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night; I went to the window to see the sight; All the ...
78. Epitaph for James Smith (Robert Burns Poems)
LAMENT him, Mauchline husbands a', He aften did assist ye; For had ye staid hale weeks awa, Your wives they ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
The Old Australian Ways (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The London lights are far abeam Behind a bank of cloud, Along the shore the gaslights gleam, The gale is ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
Henry Tripp (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
The bank broke and I lost my savings. I was sick of the tiresome game in Spoon River And I ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Knowlt Hoheimer (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet enter my heart I ...
Sonnet 14 (John Milton Poems)
XIV When Faith and Love which parted from thee never, Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly ...