Lethe (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A DUMB, dark region through whose desolate heartCreeps a dull river with a stagnant flood;Its skies are sombre-hued, and dreary ...
Poems about unnerved (21 Poems)
Winter Westerlies (James Devaney Poems)
Leaning against the wind across the paddock wayscomes Dan home with forward stoop like a man bent and old,clashes the ...
Storm and Calm (Henry Timrod Poems)
Sweet are these kisses of the South,As dropped from woman's rosiest mouth,And tenderer are those azure skiesThan this world's tenderest ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Second (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
But not all unprepared were found the Medes. With restless foot, Belesis through the night, Still to and fro had ...
The Battle-Day, Or, The Lost Army (Ernest Jones Poems)
I. LINDSAY castle's jutted forth On the wild, old sounding sea,And a gallant race of the hardy North, ...
France–December 1870 (George Meredith Poems)
IWe look for her that sunlike stoodUpon the forehead of our day,An orb of nations, radiating foodFor body and for ...
Pro Patria: America, 1861 (Adah Isaacs Menken Poems)
God's armies of Heaven, with pinions extended,Spread wide their white arms to the standard of Light;And bending far down to ...
Lament For Three Brothers (Confucius Poems)
They flit about, the yellow birds, And rest upon the jujubes find. Who buried were in duke Muh's grave, ...
The Wedding Sermon (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Now, while she's changing, said the Dean, "Her bridal for her traveling dress, I'll preach allegiance to your queen! Preaching's ...
The Turkish Trench Dog (Geoffrey Dearmer Poems)
Night held me as I crawled and scrambled nearThe Turkish lines. Above, the mocking starsSilvered the curving parapet, and clearCloud-latticed ...
Success And Failure (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I do not think all failure's undeserved, And all success is merely someone's luck; Some men are down because they ...
The Eve Of St. Agnes (John Keats Poem)
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
The Psalter (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
When it was autumn in Eden (Ian Emberson Poem)
When it was autumn in Eden and chestnuts held golden leaves against dimming light , Eve touched her toes on ...
How To Get On In Society (John Betjeman Poem)
Phone for the fish knives, Norman As cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
My Foe (Robert William Service Poems)
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff (Adrienne Rich Poems)
The autumn feels slowed down, summer still holds on here, even the light seems to last longer than it should ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...