The Third Epigram. (On an ATHEIST) (Anne Killigrew Poem)
POsthumus boasts he does not Thunder fear, And for this cause would Innocent appear; That in his Soul no Terrour ...
Poems about vultures (21 Poems)
Two Kopjes (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Made Yeomanry towards End of Boer War) Only two African kopjes, Only the cart-tracks that wind Empty and open between ...
A Recantation (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1917 (To Lyde of the Music Halls) What boots it on the Gods to call? Since, answered or unheard, We ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College (Thomas Gray Poem)
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade; ...
Baby Raptors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Little vultures, circling over their fresh prey waiting not so patiently, swooping down and back, because they weren't yet ready ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
The Ladder (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
"I will arise and go unto my father" MALKUTH Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe. ...
The Ladder (Aleister Crowley Poem)
"I will arise and go unto my father" MALKUTH Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe. ...
Flight 93 (Michael Burch Poem)
I held the switch in trembling fingers, asked why existence felt so small, so purposeless, like a minnow wriggling feebly ...
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 ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Rain Or Shine (Charles Bukowski Poems)
the vultures at the zoo (all three of the) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below on the ...
The Triumph of Life (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
Adonais (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds ...
Nature Study (Craig Raine Poems)
(for Rona, Jeremy, Sam & Grace) All the lizards are asleep-- perched pagodas with tiny triangular tiles, each milky lid ...
In The Kalahari Desert (Craig Raine Poems)
The sun rose like a tarnished looking-glass to catch the sun and flash His hot message at the missionaries below-- ...
Ode to Envy (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Deep in th' abyss where frantic horror bides, In thickest mists of vapours fell, Where wily Serpents hissing glare And ...
On the Trek (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day, With sun above and silent veldt below; And our ...
The Battle of Bannockburn (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Sir Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn Beat the English in every wheel and turn, And made them fly in great ...
A Curse for Kings (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A curse upon each king who leads his state, No matter what his plea, to this foul game, And may ...