Parrhasius (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
There stood an unsold captive in the mart,a gray-haired and majestical old man,chained to a pillar. It was almost night,and ...
Poems about unhealed (19 Poems)
The King’s Missive (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
UNDER the great hill sloping bareTo cove and meadow and Common lot,In his council chamber and oaken chair,Sat the worshipful ...
The Jewish May (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
May has come from out the showers,Sun and splendor in her train.All the grasses and the flowersWaken up to life ...
The Unhappy One (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"HE is false to the heart!" she said, stern-lipped; "he is all untruth;He promises fair as a tree in blossom, ...
Lines To A Shamrock (Nora Pembroke Poems)
A SONG OF EXILEA withered shamrock, yet to me 'tis fair As the sweet rose to other eyes might be,Because its ...
3 Sonnets for Migrants (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
1Stiff work for hands or will, they drovetheir brig southward. Science asked them assignplanet and land-mass place where none was ...
The Pessimist (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go--I know your hoary question, the riddle that all ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Eighth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
On the next morrow, early, rose the king; And sat upon his throne: at his right hand, The heroic queen: ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
A Reading Of Life–With The Persuader (George Meredith Poems)
Who murmurs, hither, hither: whoWhere nought is audible so fills the ear?Where nought is visible can make appearA veil with ...
Before A Crucifix (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood,Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt ...
The Wind(Four fragments concerning Blok) (Boris Pasternak Poems)
1 Who'll be honoured and praised,who'll be ...
On An Old Roundel (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed,And men still hear what the sweet cry saith,Crying aloud in thine ears fast ...
Sense And Spirit (George Meredith Poems)
The senses loving Earth or well or illRavel yet more the riddle of our lot.The mind is in their trammels, ...
Limbo (Seamus Heaney Poem)
Fishermen at Ballyshannon Netted an infant last night Along with the salmon. An illegitimate spawning, A small one thrown back ...
Balkans (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I often pause to wonder of the two sides of the man from the Balkans who graced my life with ...
Why Is This Age Worse…? (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Why is this age worse than earlier ages? In a stupor of grief and dread have we not fingered the ...
Before A Crucifix (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
On An Old Roundel (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed, And men still hear what the sweet cry saith, Crying aloud in thine ...