Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
Poems about strikes (51 Poems)
The Bird and the Arras (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
By neer resemblance see that Bird betray'd Who takes the well wrought Arras for a shade There hopes to pearch ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Threnody (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
At Corfu (Norman Dubie Poem)
In seventeen hundred, a much hated sultan visited us twice, finally dying of headaches in the south harbor. Ever since, ...
When on a Summer’s Morn (William Henry Davies Poems)
When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like ...
The Hermit (William Henry Davies Poem)
WHAT moves that lonely man is not the boom Of waves that break agains the cliff so strong; Nor roar ...
The White Bees (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
The Bells of Malines (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
AUGUST 17, 1914 The gabled roofs of old Malines Are russet red and gray and green, And o'er them in ...
When Malindy Sings (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy-- Put dat music book away; What's de use to keep on tryin'? Ef ...
The Clock strikes one that just struck two — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Clock strikes one that just struck two -- Some schism in the Sum -- A Vagabond for Genesis Has ...
Better — than Music! For I — who heard it — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Better -- than Music! For I -- who heard it -- I was used -- to the Birds -- before ...
Bind me — I still can sing — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Bind me -- I still can sing -- Banish -- my mandolin Strikes true within -- Slay -- and my ...
The Last Unicorn (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The last unicorn was never free to chose another ending, the plaintive melody entrained with sweet orchestral strains describing it ...
Death Fugue (Paul Celan Poem)
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it ...
To Belloc (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them ...
Ave Adonai (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
Ave Adonai (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
Metrical Feet (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks, strong foot!, yet ill ...
Punctuality (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Man Naturally loves delay, And to procrastinate; Business put off from day to day Is always done to late. Let ...
The Zeppelin (Laurence Binyon Poem)
Guns! far and near Quick, sudden, angry, They startle the still street, Upturned faces appear, Doors open on darkness, There ...
Self Communion (Anne Bronte Poem)
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Frances (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
On The Critical Attitude (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
The critical attitude Strikes many people as unfruitful That is because they find the state Impervious to their criticism But ...
The Strange Lady (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
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 ...
Dawn (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Opposite me two Germans snore and sweat. Through sullen swirling gloom we jolt and roar. We have been here for ...
The White Peacock (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
The Hemp (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...