A Song of Brave Men (Henry Lawson Poem)
Man, is the Sea your master? Sea, and is man your slave? - This is the song of brave men ...
Poems about stretches (31 Poems)
Andy’s Gone With Cattle (Henry Lawson Poems)
Our Andy's gone to battle now 'Gainst Drought, the red marauder; Our Andy's gone with cattle now Across the Queensland ...
RAIN IN SUMMER (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, ...
The Speakers (Weldon Kees Poem)
"A equals X," says Mister One. "A equals B," says Mister Two. "A equals nothing under the sun But A," ...
Roofs (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Amelia Josephine Burr) The road is wide and the stars are out and the breath of the night is ...
The Boiling Water (Kenneth Koch Poem)
A serious moment for the water is when it boils And though one usually regards it merely as a convenience ...
BALLAD OF THE BANISHED AND RETURNING COUNT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
THREE ODES TO MY FRIEND. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
Elegy For My Father (Annie Finch Poem)
HLF, August 8, 1918-August 22, 1997 "Bequeath us to no earthly shore until Is answered in the vortex of our ...
Our Lady of the Mine (Eugene Field Poem)
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
The Hog, The Sheep, And Goat, Carrying To A FAIR (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Who does not wish, ever to judge aright, And, in the Course of Life's Affairs, To have a quick, and ...
The Bonfire (Robert Frost Poem)
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
Grass (Russell Edson Poem)
The living room is overgrown with grass. It has come up around the furniture. It stretches through the dining room, ...
Frederick Douglass (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...
At the Vietnam War Memorial (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
The Vagabonds (Bliss Carman Poem)
We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime ...
Tz’u No. 6 (Waiting For You) (Li Ching Chao Poems)
To the tune of "Red Lips" Lonely in my secluded chamber, A thousand sorrows fill every inch of my sensitive ...
The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
Carmen De Boheme (Hart Crane Poem)
Sinuously winding through the room On smokey tongues of sweetened cigarettes, -- Plaintive yet proud the cello tones resume The ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The Moon (David Berman Poem)
A web of sewer, pipe, and wire connects each house to the others. In 206 a dog sleeps by the ...
Hymn To Death (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
May Morning (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
I lie stretched out upon the window-seat And doze, and read a page or two, and doze, And feel the ...
My Country in Darkness (Eavan Boland Poem)
After the wolves and before the elms the bardic order ended in Ireland. Only a few remained to continue a ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 12: Witches’ Sabbath (Conrad Aiken Poems)
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
Inferno Canto03 (Dante Alighieri Poem)
Per me si va ne la citt? dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra ...
Into the Dusk-Charged Air (John Ashbery Poem)
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
The French Revolution (excerpt) (William Blake Poems)
Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines From his mountains; an ...
How Sweet I Roam’d (William Blake Poems)
How sweet I roam'd from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride 'Til the prince of love beheld ...