The Dragon of Wantley (Anonymous British Poems)
Old stories tell how HerculesA dragon slew at Lerna,With seven heads, and fourteen eyes,To see and well discern-a:But he had ...
Poems about unwholesome (21 Poems)
Fragment Of A Meditation (Allen Tate Poems)
Not yet the thirtieth year, the thirtiethStation where time reverses his light heelsTo rim both ways, and makes of forward ...
Winter – The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne (Alexander Pope Poems)
Lycidas. Thyrsis, the music of that murm'ring spring,Is not so mournful as the strains you sing.Nor rivers winding thro' the ...
When, Like A Running Grave (Dylan Thomas Poems)
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down,Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs,Love in her gear ...
The Storm (Bernard Waters Poems)
THE air is thick, unclean and warm And filled with mutterings of a storm ; Spidery Fear a web he ...
Crabs (Arthur Albert Dawson Bayldon Poems)
(Written on the Queensland Beach)Poisonous, bloated, crab-like shapesCrawl in gangs around these capes-Stopping here and feeding there;Listening, crawling everywhere;Searching every ...
Irish Nocturne (C S Lewis Poems)
Now the grey mist comes creeping upFrom the waste ocean's weedy strandAnd fills the valley, as a cupIf filled of ...
An Autumn Song (George MacDonald Poems)
Are the leaves falling round aboutThe churchyard on the hill?Is the glow of autumn going out?Is that the winter chill?And ...
A Tale of Two Cities (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Where the sober-colored cultivator smiles On his byles; Where the cholera, the cyclone, and the crow Come and go; Where ...
Giving chapter V (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Then said a rich man, "Speak to us of Giving." And he answered: You give but little when you give ...
Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
The Palace of Humbug (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
Hymn 57 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Original sin. Rom. 5:12, etc.; Psa. 51:5; Job 14:4. Backward with humble shame we look On our original; How is ...
Song of the Broad-Axe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
A Hand-Mirror. (Walt Whitman Poems)
HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?) Outside fair costume-within ashes and ...
When, Like A Running Grave (Dylan Thomas Poems)
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs, Love in ...
The Rear-Guard (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Groping along the tunnel, step by step, He winked his prying torch with patching glare From side to side, and ...
But for the Grace of God (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"There, but for the grace of God, goes." There is a question that I ask, And ask again: What hunger ...
Ode on Adversity (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
WHERE o'er my head, the deaf'ning Tempest blew, And Night's cold lamp cast forth a feeble ray; Where o'er the ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Alciphron and Leucippe (Walter Savage Landor Poems)
An ancient chestnut's blossoms threw Their heavy odour over two: Leucippe, it is said, was one; The other, then, was ...