The Deadliest Sin (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
There are not many sins when once we sift them.In actions of evolving human soulsStriving to reach high goalsAnd falling ...
Poems about uncontrolled (21 Poems)
The Storm (Bernard Waters Poems)
THE air is thick, unclean and warm And filled with mutterings of a storm ; Spidery Fear a web he ...
The Caged Monarch (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Prison'd king! What worlds of woe In thy weary, gold-brown eyes —Thoughts of roaming long ago Under Afric's ...
Horses Of The Mind (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
Beautiful are they, that, ranging on the mountains,Crop the green pasture, and drink at the fountains;Bunching and scattering, and quick ...
Sonnet. Love (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Go forth in life, oh friend! not seeking love; A mendicant, that with imploring eye And outstretched hand asks of ...
Uncontrolled (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
The mighty forces of mysterious spaceAre one by one subdued by lordly man.The awful lightning that for eons ranTheir devastating ...
Leisure (Amy Lowell Poem)
Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age, When hours were long and days sufficed to hold Wide-eyed delights and pleasures ...
The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
The Old Issue (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Here is nothing new nor aught unproven," say the Trumpets, "Many feet have worn it and the road is old ...
For All We Have And Are (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is ...
Morning News (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread and fried potatoes, tips green on the branches, repeats old ...
St. Winefred’s Well (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
ACT I. SC. I Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following. T. WHAT is it, Gwen, my girl? why do you ...
To Live Merrily, And To Trust To Good Verses (Robert Herrick Poem)
Now is the time for mirth, Nor cheek or tongue be dumb; For with the flow'ry earth The golden pomp ...
History of the Victors, No More (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It has been said that history isn't written by who was in the right; but by who was left, after ...
Richard Minutolo (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
Hunted (Paul Eluard Poem)
A few grains of dust more or less On ancient shoulders Locks of weakness on weary foreheads This theatre of ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Roosters (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
At four o'clock in the gun-metal blue dark we hear the first crow of the first cock just below the ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...