The King (I) (Henry Lawson Poems)
AMONG the sons of Englishmen Full many feel like real tears,For, though he reigned but scarcely ten, He bore the burden many ...
Poems about steadfastness (21 Poems)
Self-Portrai (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
The steadfastness of generations of nobilityshows in the curving lines that form the eyebrows.And the blue eyes still show traces ...
Steadfastness (Patience Worth Poems)
Steadfastness! Steadfastness!No gift is so precious.The waters of the day may become troubled,And the lightnings of the wrath of sorrowMay ...
The Ancient Banner (Anonymous Americas Poems)
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France (Alan Seeger Poems)
(To have been read before the statue of Lafayette and Washington inParis, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1916.) Ay, it ...
Antigone (George Meredith Poems)
The buried voice bespake Antigone.'O sister! couldst thou know, as thou wilt know,The bliss above, the reverence below,Enkindled by thy ...
Playtime (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers!(I address myself to that chosen few -- which includes you,My dear reader -- whoAre men of understanding, bright intellect ...
A Portrait. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
HER glance is equable, serene;She looks at life with level brow;She strides through circumstance - a queen!To compromise she cannot ...
A Ballad Sent to King Richard (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
Sometime this world was so steadfast and stable,That man's word was held obligation;And now it is so false and deceivable,That ...
‘Twas awkward, but it fitted me (Emily Dickinson Poems)
973'Twas awkward, but it fitted me -An Ancient fashioned Heart -Its only lore - its Steadfastness -In Change - unerudite ...
Settling (Denise Levertov Poem)
I was welcomed here-clear gold of late summer, of opening autumn, the dawn eagle sunning himself on the highest tree, ...
The Song of the Cities (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
The Children’s Song (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Puck of Poock's Hills Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee Our love and toil in the years to ...
LINES ON SEEING SCHILLER’S SKULL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house ...
Dry Bones (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
dry bones, how did they get there, filling the valley floor, pondering the story, before the story context and meaning ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
‘Twas awkward, but it fitted me — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Twas awkward, but it fitted me -- An Ancient fashioned Heart -- Its only lore -- its Steadfastness -- In ...
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France (Alan Seeger Poems)
I Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, Commemorative of our soldier dead, When -- with sweet flowers of our ...
Since Thou Hast Given Me This Good Hope, O God (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
SINCE thou hast given me this good hope, O God, That while my footsteps tread the flowery sod And the ...
Self-Portrait (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
The steadfastness of generations of nobility shows in the curving lines that form the eyebrows. And the blue eyes still ...
Modern Love XXXVI: My Lady unto Madam (George Meredith Poems)
My Lady unto Madam makes her bow. The charm of women is, that even while You're probed by them for ...