The Wreck of the Hesperus (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear ...
Poems about steered (26 Poems)
The Ballad of the “Bolivar” (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
Endymion: Book I (John Keats Poem)
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
Harry Ploughman (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Hard as hurdle arms, with a broth of goldish flue Breathed round; the rack of ribs; the scooped flank; lank ...
Lyman, frederick, and jim (Eugene Field Poem)
(FOR THE FELLOWSHIP CLU Lyman and Frederick and Jim, one day, Set out in a great big ship-- Steamed to ...
Brown’s Descent (Robert Frost Poems)
Brown lived at such a lofty farm That everyone for miles could see His lantern when he did his chores ...
Design (Robert Frost Poem)
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece ...
Qua Cursum Ventus (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of ...
A Hedge Of Rubber Trees (Amy Clampitt Poem)
The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into ...
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
A sinner was old Captain Dan; His wives guv him no rest: He had one wife to East Skiddaw And ...
The Parting (Anne Bronte Poem)
1 The chestnut steed stood by the gate His noble master's will to wait, The woody park so green and ...
In Reference to Her Children (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
Over the Sea our Galleys Went (Robert Browning Poem)
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
Bored (Margaret Atwood Poem)
All those times I was bored out of my mind. Holding the log while he sawed it. Holding the string ...
Integrity (Adrienne Rich Poems)
the quality of being complete; unbroken condition; entirety ~ Webster A wild patience has taken me this far as if ...
Full Fathom Five (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Old man, you surface seldom. Then you come in with the tide's coming When seas wash cold, foam- Capped: white ...
Conroy’s Gap (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
The Battle of the Nile (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 18th of August in the year of 1798, That Nelson saw with inexpressible delight The City of ...
The Death of Captain Ward (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas about the beginning of the past century Billy Bowls was pressed into the British Navy, And conveyed on board ...
Off to the Fishing Ground (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
There's a piping wind from a sunrise shore Blowing over a silver sea, There's a joyous voice in the lapsing ...
Shower (Les Murray Poems)
From the metal poppy this good blast of trance arriving as shock, private cloudburst blazing down, worst in a boarding-house ...
Bill Bowls the Sailor (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas about the beginning of the present century, Bill Bowls was pressed, and sent to sea; And conveyed on board ...
Captain Teach alias Black Beard (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and sailed from that port On board a privateer, in search of sport, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Call It Music (Philip Levine Poems)
Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song in my own breath. I'm alone here in Brooklyn Heights, late ...