The Studio (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YOU walk my studio's modest round,With slowly supercilious air;While in each lifted eyebrow lurks,The keenness of an ambushed sneer.You lift ...
Poems about supercilious (21 Poems)
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. Second Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
Night (Charles Churchill Poems)
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
From: Time In The Rock (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
XXIVIf one voice, not another, must speak first, out of the silence, the stillness, the preceding- speaking clearly, speaking slowly, ...
My Cousin From Pall Mall (Arthur Patchett Martin Poems)
There's nothing so exasperates a true Australian youth,Whatever be his rank in life, be he cultured or uncouth,As the manner ...
Against Pride (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
PRIDE's the chief source of every human woe,To social happiness the greatest foe;'Mongst various passions which the mind enthrall,Pride is ...
Bones, A.B. is Reminded (C J Dennis Poems)
Men of the sea (said Bones, A.B.) Is touchy coves and curious,They stands a lot, till some dark plot Gets ...
XXVIII. Wisdom laugh’d at by the Multitude (Ellis Walker Poems)
Wisdom, you say, is what you must desire,The only charming blessing you admire,Therefore be bold and fit yourself to bearMany ...
Domestic Problem (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I don't aspire to be a person of wealth and leisure,Such as one sees on the screen.With lackeys in livery ...
To Lydia (Eugene Field Poems)
When, Lydia, you (once fond and true, But now grown cold and supercilious)Praise Telly's charms of neck and arms-- Well, ...
The Railway Train (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I like to see it lap the miles,And lick the valleys up,And stop to feed itself at tanks;And then, prodigious, ...
I like to see it lap the Miles (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I like to see it lap the Miles-And lick the Valleys up-And stop to feed itself at Tanks-And then-prodigious stepAround ...
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket (Robert Lowell Poem)
(For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea) Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of ...
The Sunset stopped on Cottages (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Sunset stopped on Cottages Where Sunset hence must be For treason not of His, but Life's, Gone Westerly, Today ...
I’m saying every day (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I'm saying every day "If I should be a Queen, tomorrow" -- I'd do this way -- And so I ...
I like to see it lap the Miles — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I like to see it lap the Miles -- And lick the Valleys up -- And stop to feed itself ...
Brother of All, with Generous Hand. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o'er thy tomb, I and my Soul, ...
Rise, O Days. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 RISE, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep! Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I ...
The Ballad Of Hard-Luck Henry (Robert William Service Poems)
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every ...
The Cat With Wings (Robert William Service Poems)
You never saw a cat with wings, I'll bet a dollar -- well, I did; 'Twas one of those fantastic ...