A Footnote to a Famous Lyric (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
TRUE love's own talisman, which hereShakespeare and Sidney failed to teach,A steel-and-velvet CavalierGave to our Saxon speech:Chief miracle of theme ...
Adventure Poems (125 Poems)
Dark Blood (Margaret Walker Poems)
There were bizarre beginnings in old lands for the making of me. There were sugar sands and islands of fern and pearl, ...
Comrades 0′ Mine (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
If I call, will you hear me, O comrades of mine,When the sky in the East holds the grey of ...
The Lads of the Maple Leaf (Jessie Pope Poems)
RIPE for any adventure, sturdy, loyal and game,Quick to the call of the Mother, the young Canadians came.Eager to show ...
The Welcome tent (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
This is the thanksgiving of the weary,The song of him that is ready to rest.It is good to be glad ...
The Regimental Flag (James Henry Sturgiss Poems)
A symbol of valour, a wind-whipped ragSalute! to the Regiment's passing flag.On that 'broidered banner old battle namesBring our cold ...
The Woman With Jewels (Lola Ridge Poems)
The woman with jewels sits in the cafe,Spraying light like a fountain.Diamonds glitter on her bulbous fingersAnd on her arms, ...
Autumn Song (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Poems)
Let's go down the road together, you and I, Let's go down the road together, Through the vivid autumn weather;Let's go down ...
Ecuadorian Man Under The Eiffel Tower (Jorge Carerra Andrade Poems)
You turn into a plant on the coasts of time.With a chalice of round skyand tunnel for traffic,you are the ...
The Raiders (Marian Allen Poems)
In shadowy formation up they rise,Dusky raiders with their bat-like wings.The night is studded with a thousand eyesAnd its dim ...
Adventure (Hilda Conkling Poems)
I went slowly through the wood of shadows,Thinking always I should meet some one:There was no one.I found a hollowSweet ...
Franklin Hyde (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His UncleHis uncle came on Franklin HydeCarousing in the Dirt.He shook ...
Mayor Harold Washington (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
Mayor. Worldman. Historyman.Beyond steps that occur and close,your steps are echo-makers.You can never be forgotten.We begin our health.We enter the ...
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 ...
Pelleas And Ettarre (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gapLeft by the Holy Quest; and as he satIn hall at old ...
Balin and Balan (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
Pellam the King, who held and lost with LotIn that first war, and had his realm restoredBut rendered tributary, failed ...
School of my heart, tomorrow i will be separated from you! (Che Lan Vien Poems)
The blazing rays of sunshine, little by little, condense; and the South Wind, with its swirls of dust, returns and ...
The Borough. Letter XVII: The Hospital And (George Crabbe Poems)
GovenorsAN ardent spirit dwells with Christian love,The eagle's vigour in the pitying dove;'Tis not enough that we with sorrow sigh,That ...
In The Canyon (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"This is her diary. Come with me to viewThe canyon; think you see it as of oldWhen Martha lived, and ...
Valentine and Ursine (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Part the First.When Flora 'gins to decke the fieldsWith colours fresh and fine,Then holy clerkes their mattins sing To good ...
Lines In Memory Of Edmund Morris (Duncan Campbell Scott Poems)
Dear Morris--here is your letter--Can my answer reach you now?Fate has left me your debtor,You will remember how;For I went ...
H. S. Mauberley (Life And Contacts) [Part I] (Ezra Pound Poems)
Vocat aestus in umbram Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'?lection de son s?pulchre For three years, out of ...
The Finding Of The Book (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
The enchanted island rose before me, drawnMore beautiful than words of mine may reach;It lay magnificent in a magic dawn,And ...
Rosara’s Chain. The Mystic Cave. (Alicia LeFanu Poems)
WHEN PHOEBUS tints the breezy lawn,AMANTOR hails the lovely dawn;That dawn, which sees him free again,Gay bounding o'er ...
Rosara’s Chain. Conclusion (Alicia LeFanu Poems)
ONE morn, when Twilight, matron grey,Hung fondly yet o'er infant Day,Sudden, with tempered radiance bright,Throughout the Hall a rosy lightBeams ...
The Old Sac Village (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Ye who read in musty volumesPages worn of Backwoods Times,Of the red man and the white man,In the thrilling days ...
The New Bath Guide: Part I, Letter V (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. Salutations of Bath, and an Adventure of Mr. B---n---r---d's in ...
Capt. Smith And Pocahontas (Eloise Alberta Bibb Poems)
The night hung o'er Virginia's forest wild, Stately with beauty unsurpassed beforeShone the full moon serenely; and the windAs it ...
Ballade (Alain Chartier Poems)
O folz des folz, et les folz mortelz hommes,Qui vous fiez tant ?s biens de fortune!En celle terre, ?s pays ...
The Vindictive (Alfred Noyes Poems)
How should we praise those lads of the old Vindictive Who looked Death straight in the eyes, Till his ...