Dane-Geld (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
A.D. 980-1016 It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to ...
Poems about trifling (31 Poems)
Song of the Indian Maid, from ‘Endymion’ (John Keats Poems)
O SORROW! Why dost borrow The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?-- To give maiden blushes To the white ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Endymion: Book IV (John Keats Poem)
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
The Height of the Ridiculous (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
I WROTE some lines once on a time In wondrous merry mood, And thought, as usual, men would say They ...
Contentment (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
"Man wants but little here below." LITTLE I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone, ...
ORIGINAL PREFACE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
WITH A GOLDEN NECKLACE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THIS page a chain to bring thee burns, That, train'd to suppleness of old, On thy fair neck to nestle, ...
LIVING REMEMBRANCE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
HALF vex'd, half pleased, thy love will feel, Shouldst thou her knot or ribbon steal; To thee they're much--I won't ...
THE MINSTREL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
"WHAT tuneful strains salute mine ear Without the ...
With two spoons for two spoons (Eugene Field Poem)
How trifling shall these gifts appear Among the splendid many That loving friends now send to cheer Harvey and Ellen ...
The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
I could die — to know — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I could die -- to know -- 'Tis a trifling knowledge -- News-Boys salute the Door -- Carts -- joggle ...
Your noble reign (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The man whose term we would remember as our longest, constant serving Head of State, besides the late Sir Robert ...
No further slice of me (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
Men with trivial scars (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We wear scars from our youth, trifling things reflecting those earnings from growing days, of battles raised and wounds worn ...
Jack’s Legacy (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
The critic gushed and said, "Just like Jack, so raw, I never thought to see another writer just like Kerouac!" ...
Hoping With Care (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We are honored and humble and earnest to share in events which would happen although we weren't there, a trifling ...
Futurelessness (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
My Mistress Commanding Me to Return Her Letters. (Thomas Carew Poem)
SO grieves th' adventurous merchant, when he throws All the long toil'd-for treasure his ship stows Into the angry main, ...
A Valentine (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't ...
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 ...
To Time (Lord Byron Poem)
Time! on whose arbitrary wing The varying hours must flag or fly, Whose tardy winter, fleeting spring, But drag or ...
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar (Robert Browning Poem)
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
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 ...
My Last Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
That's my last duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, ...
260. Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox (Robert Burns Poem)
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite, How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white, How Genius, ...
To Lady Jane (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Romance was always young. You come today Just eight years old With marvellous dark hair. Younger than Dante found you ...