The Fair Captive (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
The idle winds at dawn that strayedThro' wavy depths of joyous shade,The early chirp of breeze-swung boughs,The carol of the ...
Poems about thieving (21 Poems)
Sweet Marie (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
You were very fair to meet once, Marie, With your eyes like some blue hiding flower, Now where the sun ...
Mysterious Rappings (Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber Poems)
Late one evening I was sitting, gloomy shadows roundMe flitting,-- Mrs. Partington, a-knitting occupied the grate before;Suddenly I heard a ...
Samuel (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Hear then of brawn-armed Samuel, Fair-haired and heavy-jaw; For he feared not the gates of hell, Spiked 'round with heaven's ...
Wasps In A Garden (Charles Lamb Poems)
The wall-trees are laden with fruit; The grape, and the plum, and the pear,The peach and the nectarine, to suit ...
Clair de Lune (Anthony Hecht Poems)
Powder and scent and silence. The young dwarf Shoulders his lute. The moon is Levantine. It settles its pearl in ...
Gardeners Grouch (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a looper caterpillar in my lupins, There are weevils weaving strands about my stocks,There are throngs of thieving thripsOn ...
The Broken Men (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
For things we never mention, For Art misunderstood -- For excellent intention That did not turn to good; From ancient ...
THE CAPTIVE BEE; OR, THE LITTLE FILCHER (Robert Herrick Poem)
As Julia once a-slumb'ring lay, It chanced a bee did fly that way, After a dew, or dew-like shower, To ...
His Meditation Upon Death (Robert Herrick Poem)
BE those few hours, which I have yet to spend, Blest with the meditation of my end; Though they be ...
A PASTORAL UPON THE BIRTH OF PRINCE CHARLES:PRESENTED TO THE KING, AND SET BY MR NIC. LANIERE (Robert Herrick Poem)
A PASTORAL UPON THE BIRTH OF PRINCE CHARLES: PRESENTED TO THE KING, AND SET BY MR NIC. LANIERE THE SPEAKERS: ...
113. A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. (Robert Burns Poems)
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
Two Songs Rewritten For The Tune’s Sake (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I My Paistin Finn is my sole desire, And I am shrunken to skin and bone, For all my heart ...
Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, Like lightning it le'pt forth, half startled ...
The Bird’s Bargain (Katharine Tynan Poems)
'O spare my cherries in the net,' Brother Benignus prayed; 'and I Summer and winter, shine and wet, Will pile ...
We Two Boys Together Clinging. (Walt Whitman Poems)
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going-North and South excursions making, ...
Where’s the Poker? (Christopher Smart Poems)
The poker lost, poor Susan storm'd, And all the rites of rage perform'd; As scolding, crying, swearing, sweating, Abusing, fidgetting, ...
Belated Conscience (Robert William Service Poems)
To buy for school a copy-book I asked my Dad for two-pence; He gave it with a gentle look, Although ...
Mistress Gurton’s Cat (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Old MISTRESS GURTON had a Cat, A Tabby, loveliest of the race, Sleek as a doe, and tame, and fat ...
The Pardah Nashin (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
HER life is a revolving dream Of languid and sequestered ease; Her girdles and her fillets gleam Like changing fires ...
Where Is David, the Next King of Israel? (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Where is David? . . . O God's people, Saul has passed, the good and great. Mourn for Saul the ...