The Empty Purse–A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son (George Meredith Poems)
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
Poems about uppermost (21 Poems)
Ernest: The Rule Of Right – Book IV (Capel Lofft Poems)
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
The Rhyme of Joyous Garde (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense With fumes of the flowery frankincense From hawthorn blossoming thickly; And gold ...
Eternal Justice (Charles Mackay Poems)
The man is thought a knave, or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, Who, for the ...
The Horse Thief (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"I By the ditch in the hollow stands the tree, A cottonwood with deeply wrinkled bark About its mighty trunk, ...
A Dialogue Between The Husbandman And The Servingman (Anonymous British Poems)
ServingmanWell met, my brother friend, all at this highway end,So simple all alone, as you can,I pray you tell to ...
Champagne, 1914-15 (Alan Seeger Poems)
In the glad revels, in the happy fetes, When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled With the sweet ...
Ducks (Frank W Harvey Poems)
IFrom troubles of the world I turn to ducks,Beautiful comical thingsSleeping or curledTheir heads beneath white wingsBy water cool,Or finding ...
Ducks (Frederick William Harvey Poems)
FROM troubles of the worldI turn to ducks,Beautiful comical thingsSleeping or curledTheir heads beneath white wingsBy water cool,Or finding curious ...
King Ryence’s Challenge (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
As it fell out on a Pentecost day,King Arthur at Camelot kept his court royall,With his faire queen dame Guenever ...
The Important Thing (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
He was playing in the garden when we called him in for tea,But he didn't seem to hear us, so ...
To My Reader (Frederick William Faber Poems)
Young Reader!-for most surely to the old These loose, uneven thinkings can but seem Unlifelike and unreal as a dream,- ...
At The Close (George Meredith Poems)
To Thee, dear God of Mercy, both appeal,Who straightway sound the call to arms. Thou know'st;And that black spot in ...
The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
The Meeting (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
After so long an absence At last we meet agin: Does the meeting give us pleasure, Or does it give ...
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Her Praise (William Butler Yeats Poems)
She is foremost of those that I would hear praised. I have gone about the house, gone up and down ...
Champagne, 1914-15 (Alan Seeger Poems)
In the glad revels, in the happy fetes, When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled With the sweet ...
Elizabeth (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Elizabeth, it surely is most fit In thy own book that first thy name ...
The Loss of the Victoria (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...