Inheritance (Mary Thacher Higginson Poems)
WE wondered why he always turned asideWhen mirth and gladness filled the brimming days:Who else so fit as he for ...
Poems about swimmers (21 Poems)
The Kalevala – Rune XXIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
OSMOTAR THE BRIDE-ADVISERNow the bride must be instructed,Who will teach the Maid of Beauty,Who instruct the Rainbow-daughter?Osmotar, the wisdom-maiden,Kalew's fair ...
The Bride Of The Greek Isle (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Fear! I'm a Greek, and how should I fear death?A slave, and wherefore should I dread my freedom?I will not ...
Melampus (George Meredith Poems)
IWith love exceeding a simple love of the thingsThat glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck;Or change their perch ...
A Married Coquette (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics!I hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.It is time you found ...
Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water (Allen Curnow Poems)
The typical tidal range, or difference in sea level between high and low tides, in the open ocean is about ...
The Old Swimmer (Christopher Morley Poems)
I OFTEN wander on the beach Where once, so brown of limb, The biting air, the roaring surf Summoned me ...
An Afternoon At The Beach (Edgar Bowers Poems)
I'll go among the dead to see my friend. The place I leave is beautiful: the sea Repeats the winds' ...
The Avowal (Denise Levertov Poem)
As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air ...
The Channel Swimmer (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Would you hear a Wild tale of adventure Of a hero who tackled the sea, A super-man swimming the ocean, ...
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar -- Until the morning sun -- When One -- turned smiling to the land ...
Peace (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, ...
I. Peace (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, ...
1914 I: Peace (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, ...
Now, God Be Thanked Who Has Matched Us With His Hour (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
August (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Why should this Negro insolently stride Down the red noonday on such noiseless feet? Piled in his barrow, tawnier than ...
World Below the Brine, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
THE world below the brine; Forests at the bottom of the sea-the branches and leaves, Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers ...
I Sing the Body Electric. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
River Roads (Carl Sandburg Poems)
LET the crows go by hawking their caw and caw. They have been swimming in midnights of coal mines somewhere. ...
Hail! Childish Slave Of Social Rules (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
HAIL! Childish slaves of social rules You had yourselves a hand in making! How I could shake your faith, ye ...