Flash-Lights (Mary Aldis Poems)
ICANDLES toppling sideways in tomato cans Sputter and sizzle at head and foot. The gaudy patterns of a patch-work quilt ...
Brain Poems (1987 Poems)
The Value Of Gold (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
There may be standard weight for precious metal,But deeper meaning it must ever hold;Thank God, there are some things no ...
Our Kind Of A Man (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
1The kind of a man for you and me!He faces the world unflinchingly,And smites, as long as the wrong resists,With ...
Welcome! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Yes! welcome, right welcome -- and give me your hand,-- I like not to keep in the cold!If new friends are ...
Hertha (Nora Jane Hopper Chesson Poems)
I am the spirit of all that lives,Labours and loses and forgives.My breath's the wind among the reeds;I'm wounded when ...
Regret (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Mine, to loose or to hold,I held it, thus, in my hand.Mine, to fetter or free-Which should it be?Dear little ...
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions V (John Pierpont Poems)
In Eden's green retreats,A water-brook,—that playedBetween soft, mossy seats,Beneath a plane-tree's shade,Whose rustling leavesDanced o'er its brink,—Was Adam's drink,And also ...
The Intruder (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THERE is a smell of roses in the roomTea-roses, dead of bloom;An invalid, she sits there in the gloom,And contemplates ...
Nuts To Crack For Cousin Sam (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Hae ye come to yer senses yet, Sammy, my man?For ye juist war rid-wud whan the war it began;Has the ...
Extracts from a Medical Poem. The Stability of Science (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms,On some tall lighthouse dash their little forms,And the rude granite scatters for their ...
The Comet (Jessie Pope Poems)
Last week we started out in glee,The boys and Bertha, Aunt and me,Across the village green to see The comet;Some people ...
On A Portrait (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A widower muses over the likeness of his dead wife.THE face, the beautiful face,In its living flush and glow,The perfect ...
Lamia Unveiled (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HER step is soft as a fay's footfall,And her eyes are wonderful founts of blue;But I've seen that small foot ...
From ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ A Song (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
Let school-masters puzzle their brain,With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,Gives 'genus' a better discerning.Let them brag ...
Lines (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I 'm ashamed,--that 's the fact,--it 's a pitiful case,--Won't any kind classmate get up in my place?Just remember how ...
The Magnetic Lady To Her Patient (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.'Sleep, sleep on! forget thy pain;My hand is on thy brow,My spirit on thy brain;My pity on thy heart, poor ...
A Child’s Treasures (Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Poems)
Thou art home at last, my darling one,Flushed and tired with thy play,From morning dawn until setting sunHast thou been ...
Water!–Oh! Water For Me (John Pierpont Poems)
Oh! water for me—bright water for me!And wine for the tremulous debauchee!It cooleth the brow, it cooleth the brain,It maketh ...
The Landlord (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What boot your houses and your lands? In spite of close-drawn deed and fence,Like water, twixt your cheated hands,They slip into ...
Fools (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
There are Scores of fools among us -Bring your scales and plumb and square.Let them weigh and try each other ...
The Soldier’s Brother–A Ballad (Peter John Allan Poems)
A WOUNDED warrior knelt apart, On the battle-field knelt he;There was anguish in his iron heart, And tears bedimm'd his ee.And wept ...
Crazed (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
No rest! no rest on this bleak earth for me;A thousand fancies flit across my brain;Dim phantoms of the shadowy ...
The Bad Old Days (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
The summer of nineteen eighteenI read The Jungle and TheResearch Magnificent. That fallMy father died and my auntTook me to ...
The Author To His Body On Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80 (Howard Nemerov Poems)
"There's never a dull moment in the human body." -The Insight LadyDear old equivocal and closest friend,Grand Vizier to a weak ...
Deserted Gipsy’s Song: Hillside Camp (Laurence Hope Poems)
She is glad to receive your turquoise ring, Dear and dark-eyed Lover of mine!I, to have given you everything: Beauty maddens the ...
The West Wind (John Masefield Poems)
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;I never hear the west wind but tears are in ...
Cactus Seed (Lola Ridge Poems)
Radiant notes piercing my narrow-chested room, beating down through my ceiling- smeared with unshapen belly-prints of dreams drifted out of ...
Flotsam (Pat O Cotter Poems)
The China Coast's a dumping ground And the South Sea gets its shareOf the kind of men that don't make goodThe ...
At a Lecture (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
Since mistakes are inevitable, I can easily be takenfor a man standing before you in this room filledwith yourselves. Yet ...
What The Heart Of The Poet Said To The ‘Bulletin’ (Joseph Furphy Poems)
Tell me not in future numbersThat our thought becomes inane,That our metre halts and lumbers,When the Wattle blooms again.Lies of ...