Hic Vir, Hic Est (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Often, when o'er tree and turret,Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I lingerKnown familiarly as 'King's.'And the ghosts ...
Poems about unassuming (21 Poems)
Reflections Suggested By Winter (James Thomson Poems)
'Tis done! dread winter spreads its latest glooms,And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year.How dead the vegetable kingdom lies!How dumb ...
Invocation. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Written on Board the Prison Ship Medway, off the Island of St. Paul's,March, 1825.COME, heavenly Muse, descendFrom Zion's holy hill:Thy ...
Herr Weiser (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Herr Weiser--! Three-score-years-and-ten--,A hale white rose of his country-men,Transplanted here in the Hoosier loam,And blossomy as his German home--As blossomy ...
Quatrains (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IMOTHS AND FIREFLIESSince Fancy taught me in her school of spellsI know her tricks--These are not moths at all,Nor fireflies; ...
The Mountain Flower. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
IF, the rude mountain turf adorning,Some lowly flower should chance to rise,With simple charms to greet the morning;Tho' plac'd beneath ...
A Prince from Western Libya (Constantine P. Cavafy Poems)
Aristomenis, son of Menelaos,the Prince from Western Libya,was generally liked in Alexandriaduring the ten days he spent there.As his name, ...
Reflection (Matilda Betham Poems)
Why should we think the years of life Will pass serenely by, When, for a day, the Sun himself Ne'er sees a cloudless ...
Spring (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.STERN Winter now has closed his dreary reign,And vernal blooms array the smiling plain;The western breeze on it's salubrious wingWafts ...
Larches (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Larches are most fitting small red hillsThat rise like swollen antheaps likeablyAnd modest before big things like near MalvernOr Cotswold's ...
The Redbreast (James Grahame Poems)
How simply unassuming is that strain,It is the redbreast's song, the friend of man.High is his perch, but humble is ...
The Fall of Needwood (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
Ah, Needwood! I, whose early voiceTaught thy shrill echoes to rejoice;I, who first pour'd the sylvan songThy glades, thy banks, ...
Envy, A Poem (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
The Great Boat Race (E W Bowling Poems)
1. HAWKSHAW 3rd Trinity. 5. KINGLAKE 3rd Trinity. 2. PIGOTT Corpus. ...
Hic Vir, Hic Est (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Often, when o'er tree and turret, Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I linger Known familiarly as "King's."And ...
A Salon Scene (Anastasius Grun Poems)
Evening: In the festive halls the light of many candles gleams, Shedding from the mirrors' crystal thousand-fold reflected beams. ...
Pansy: Song-Words. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
IN a crooked angleOf a garden bower,'Neath a weedy tangleGrew a modest flower;Unpretending, unoffending,Gifted but with fancy,Unassuming in his bloomingGrew ...
Sonnet XVII (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
Nor wert thou only by thy kindred wept,-- Young mother! gentle daughter! cherish'd wife! Deep in her memory France hath ...
102. To a Mountain Daisy (Robert Burns Poems)
WEE, modest crimson-tippèd flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender ...
To A Mountain Daisy (Robert Burns Poems)
ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1786 Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil ...
The Blues Are All The Same (Lisa Zaran Poems)
~for Jackson C. Frank It seems almost too far fetched really, too difficult to believe. This unassuming moon shining like ...