The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
Poems about swarthy (26 Poems)
The Plea of the Simla Dancers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Too late, alas! the song To remedy the wrong; -- The rooms are taken from us, swept and garnished for ...
On Building With Stone (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
To be an ape in little of the mountain-making mother Like swarthy Cheops, but my own hands For only slaves, ...
THE MAID OF THE MILL’S REPENTANCE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
YOUTH. AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee! Or else I needs must, in ...
The Malay — took the Pearl (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Malay -- took the Pearl -- Not -- I -- the Earl -- I -- feared the Sea -- ...
The Jay his Castanet has struck (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Jay his Castanet has struck Put on your muff for Winter The Tippet that ignores his voice Is impudent ...
The Eavesdropper (Bliss Carman Poem)
In a still room at hush of dawn, My Love and I lay side by side And heard the roaming ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin (Robert Browning Poem)
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
The Boy (William Allingham Poem)
The Boy from his bedroom-window Look'd over the little town, And away to the bleak black upland Under a clouded ...
The Lovers of the Poor (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs, There stands a ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Those Names (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The shearers sat in the firelight, hearty and hale and strong, After the hard day's shearing, passing the joke along: ...
The Coliseum (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary Of lofty contemplation left to Time By buried centuries of pomp and power! ...
Run to Death (Amy Levy Poems)
A True Incident of Pre-Revolutionary French History. Now the lovely autumn morning breathes its freshness in earth's face, In the ...
Commemoration (Claude McKay Poems)
When first your glory shone upon my face My body kindled to a mighty flame, And burnt you yielding in ...
North and South (Claude McKay Poems)
O sweet are tropic lands for waking dreams! There time and life move lazily along. There by the banks of ...
The Harlem Dancer (Claude McKay Poems)
Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway; Her voice was like the sound of ...
Through Agony (Claude McKay Poems)
I All night, through the eternity of night, Pain was my potion though I could not feel. Deep in my ...
Tormented (Claude McKay Poems)
I will not reason, wrestle here with you, Though you pursue and worry me about; As well put forth my ...
Liaison (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
A big bud of moon hangs out of the twilight, Star-spiders spinning their thread Hang high suspended, withouten respite Watching ...