Kings (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For the Rev. James B. Dollard) The Kings of the earth are men of might, And cities are burned for ...
Poems about stall (31 Poems)
The Sons of Martha (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; But the Sons of Martha favour their ...
Eddi’s Service (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid In his chapel at Manhood End, Ordered a midnight service For such as cared to ...
Beast and Man in India (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Written for John Lockwood Kipling's They killed a Child to please the Gods In Earth's young penitence, And I have ...
Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things (William Ernest Henley Poem)
The big teetotum twirls, And epochs wax and wane As chance subsides or swirls; But of the loss and gain ...
Name of Horses (Donald Hall Poem)
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul sledges of cordwood ...
An Autumn Rain-Scene (Thomas Hardy Poem)
There trudges one to a merry-making With sturdy swing, On whom the rain comes down. To fetch the saving medicament ...
THE BUYERS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
To an apple-woman's stall Once some children nimbly ran; Longing much to purchase all, They with joyous haste began Snatching ...
The Guardian Angel Of The Little Utopia (Jorie Graham Poem)
Shall I move the flowers again? Shall I put them further to the left into the light? Win that fix ...
To A New England Poet (Philip Freneau Poem)
Though skilled in Latin and in Greek, And earning fifty cents a week, Such knowledge, and the income, too, Should ...
To Mr. F. Now Earl of W (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task, ...
A Servant to Servants (Robert Frost Poem)
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
To the Thawing Wind (Robert Frost Poem)
COME with rain. O loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; make the ...
The Runaway (Robert Frost Poem)
Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall, We stopped by a mountain pasture to say 'Whose ...
Sam’s Racehorse (Marriott Edgar Poems)
When Sam Small retired from the Army He'd a pension of ninepence a day, And seven pounds fourteen and twopence ...
Just wasn’t right (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
You lift the lid in awe, a seat and lid upon an inside stall where you can go, quite unlike ...
The Spring (Thomas Carew Poem)
Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost Candies the ...
Lepanto (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
Flight 93 (Michael Burch Poem)
I held the switch in trembling fingers, asked why existence felt so small, so purposeless, like a minnow wriggling feebly ...
The Worlds in this World (Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poem)
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
Christmas (John Betjeman Poem)
The bells of waiting Advent ring, The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-oil light across the night Has caught ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
SOULSTRONG;/BREAKAWAY (Siddharth Anand Poem)
Abandon the past Throw away the baggage Suffer no more. avast(stop now) Breakaway from the chains and shackles Which from ...
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (excerpt) (William Morris Poems)
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
Willie Metcalf (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was Willie Metcalf. They used to call me "Doctor Meyers" Because, they said, I looked like him. And he ...
Conscientious Objector (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him leading his horse out ...
Market Square (A. A. Milne Poems)
I had a penny, A bright new penny, I took my penny To the market square. I wanted a rabbit, ...
A Youth Mowing (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
There are four men mowing down by the Isar; I can hear the swish of the scythe-strokes, four Sharp breaths ...