In the Park (Maxine Kumin Poem)
You have forty-nine days between death and rebirth if you're a Buddhist. Even the smallest soul could swim the English ...
Poems about temper (31 Poems)
The Sons of Martha (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; But the Sons of Martha favour their ...
The ‘eathen (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
A Boy Scouts’Patrol Song (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
1913 These are our regulations-- There's just one law for the Scout And the first and the last, and the ...
The Betrothed (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
On The Sea (John Keats Poem)
It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell ...
To The House (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I am heaping the bones of the old mother To build us a hold against the host of the air; ...
London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
Providence (George Herbert Poem)
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
The Sacrifice (George Herbert Poem)
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
agapanthus – african lily (Rg Gregory Poem)
you may not be willing to notice me i have an awkward sense of myself ...
from Proverbs of Hell (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) radical ban all fires and places where people congregate to create comfort put an end to sleep good cooking ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
A Double Edged Sword (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The truth of consequences a sobering reflection thinking about words the double edged sword an Achilles' heel of our nation ...
Reaching for Us (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
God, reaching out, reaching for us for our hearts, our lives for us to turn to him to him alone ...
Justice Amidst the Process (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hearing her words, her voice anguished, tired, spent, seeking justice, from her view unification with her babies, her grandchildren, caught ...
The “happy isles” of horace (Eugene Field Poem)
Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles In the golden haze off yonder, Where the song of the sun-kissed ...
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
To Mr. F. Now Earl of W (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task, ...
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Cupid And Folly (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
CUPID, ere depriv'd of Sight, Young and apt for all Delight, Met with Folly on the way, As Idle and ...
The Clouds their Backs together laid (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Clouds their Backs together laid The North begun to push The Forests galloped till they fell The Lightning played ...
In the Holy Nativity of our Lord (Richard Crashaw Poem)
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
Fit the Fifth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Excerpts from “Poetry” (Michael Burch Poem)
Poetry, I found you where at last they chained and bound you; with devices all around you to torture and ...
Meditation on the A30 (John Betjeman Poem)
A man on his own in a car Is revenging himself on his wife; He open the throttle and bubbles ...
The Hunter (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
A full-fledged gun cannot endure The trifling of an amateur; Poor marksmanship its temper spoils And this is why the ...
Rugby Chapel (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...