A Girls’s Sin – In Her Eyes (Francis Thompson Poems)
Cross child! red, and frowning so?'I, the day just over,Gave a lock of hair to--no!How DARE you say, my lover?'He ...
Poems about toyed (19 Poems)
The Coquette (Marietta Holley Poems)
How can I be to blame? Is it my fault I am fair?I did not fashion my features, Or brush the gold ...
I Searched Among The Hills (Patience Worth Poems)
I searched among the hills to find His love,And found but waving trees, and stonesWhere lizards flaunt their green and ...
The Haunted House (George Sylvester Viereck Poems)
I lay beside you… on your lips the whileHovered, most strange… the mirage of a smile,Such as a minstrel lover ...
Crazy Levi (Rachel Korn Poems)
And no one knows what became of him, Crazy Levi,who tied the roadsfrom Yaverev to Moshtsiskto Samber to Greyding in ...
The Word That Was Left Unsaid (John Oxenham Poems)
"A red rose for my helmet,And a word before we part!The rose shall be my oriflammeThe word shall fill my ...
A Cross In Flanders (George Rostrevor Hamilton Poems)
In the face of death, they say, he joked—he had no fear; His comrades, when they laid him in a Flanders ...
Their Story Runneth Thus (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Two little children played among the flowers,Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;The children's ages were the very sameE'en ...
Hero And Leander: The Second Sestiad (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted,Viewing Leander's face, fell down and fainted.He kissed her and breathed life into her ...
Red Or White? (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
In a western city new-born from a withering fire, Fresh ...
A Girl’s Sin – In Her Eyes (Francis Thompson Poems)
Cross child! red, and frowning so? 'I, the day just over,Gave a lock of hair to--no! How DARE you say, ...
The Immortal Strain (Edward Dyson Poems)
Late Midshipman John Travers (Chester), aged 16 years. He was mortally wounded early in the action, yet he remained alone ...
Telephone to Heaven (Frank Barbour Coffin Poems)
A little child with her aunty came Into a certain store, But the merchant was busy waiting On those who ...
The Bower Among The Bears (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
We had a bower among the beans, My little love and I, Where by his side as kings set queens ...
‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch (Emily Dickinson Poems)
414'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,That nearer, every Day,Kept narrowing its boiling WheelUntil the AgonyToyed coolly with the final ...
Sonnet CCCVIII: “Love sat at ease upon Time’s bony knee” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Love sat at ease upon Time's bony knee; Pulled his grey beard; paddled his finger-tips Among his wrinkles; smote his ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch, (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch, That nearer, every Day, Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel Until the Agony Toyed ...
The Living Dead (Robert William Service Poems)
Since I have come to years sedate I see with more and more acumen The bitter irony of Fate, The ...