A Psalm of Labouring Life (Franklin P. Adams Poems)
Tell me not, in doctored numbers,Life is but a name for work!For the labour that encumbersMe I wish that I ...
Capital Poems (129 Poems)
LXII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Everywhere, throughout the world, I am become dishonoured and humiliatedHouse by house, my dissoluteness, and my profligacy, are manifest grown.That ...
Elegy In A Botanic Gardens (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
THE smell of birds' nests faintly burningIs autumn. In the autumn I cameWhere spring had used me better,To the clear ...
A Contented Man (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
A young man goes skipping and bounding along a street in the capital. Hismovements are gay and alert; there is ...
Acrostic : Georgiana Augusta Keats (John Keats Poems)
Give me your patience, sister, while I frameExact in capitals your golden name;Or sue the fair Apollo and he willRouse ...
Lines Read at a Dairymaids’ Social, 1887 (James McIntyre Poems)
Where the young lady waiters were dressed as dairymaids.Throughout the world they do extolThe fame of our town Ingersoll,The capital ...
Sayings (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I.In life's small things be resolute and greatTo keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when FateThy measure takes, or when ...
Sonnett – XIV (James Russell Lowell Poems)
ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS IN DEFENCE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENTAs the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth,With the majestic beating of his heart,The ...
Tombs (Kostas Karyotakis Poems)
Helen S. Lamari, 1878-1912Poet and musician.Died with the most frightful pains of the bodyand with the greatest calm of the ...
I dream of hunchbacked Tiflis (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
I dream of hunchbacked Tiflis,Where a Sazandar's groan resoundsThe people cluster on the bridge,The crowd carpets the whole capital,While below, ...
Sonnet X (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AS one who strays from out some shadowy glade,Fronting a lurid noontide, stern, yet bright,O'er mart and tower, and castellated ...
“I dream of hunchbacked Tiflis” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
I dream of hunchbacked Tiflis,Where a Sazandar's groan resoundsThe people cluster on the bridge,The crowd carpets the whole capital,While below, ...
Crossing the Fields, I Climb the Mountain on Serpentine Island (Hsieh Ling-Yun Poems)
Crossing the Fields, I Climbthe Mountain on Serpentine IslandWhat consolation is therefor an exile's bitter sorrow?I gaze at the sea,console ...
I have found (Mirabai Poems)
I have found, yes, I have found the wealth of the Divine Name's gem.My true guru gave me a priceless ...
A Song Of An Autumn Midnight (Li Po Poems)
A slip of the moon hangs over the capital;Ten thousand washing-mallets are pounding;And the autumn wind is blowing my heartFor ...
Placing burning coals (Ono no Komachi Poems)
Placing burning coalsTo burn my body hurts less thanThe sorrow ofThe capital and island shoreParting. (Ono no Komachi)
The Temple of Fame (Alexander Pope Poems)
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
The Light of Asia: Book the Third (Edwin Arnold Poems)
In which calm home of happy life and loveLigged our Lord Buddha, knowing not of woe,Nor want, nor pain, nor ...
A Treatise On Poetry: IV Natura (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Pennsylvania, 1948-1949The garden of Nature opens. The grass at the threshold is green. And an almond tree begins to bloom. ...
Chomei At Toyama (Basil Bunting Poems)
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
Palinodia (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life ...
Grocyn At Oxford (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
_THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE_1491 As she who in some village-child unknown, With rustic grace and fantasy bedeck'd And in her simple ...
Song of Unending Sorrow. (Bai JuYi Poems)
China's Emperor, craving beauty that might shake an empire, Was on the throne for many years, searching, never finding, Till ...
Samson And Delilah (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Because thou wast most delicate, A woman fair for men to see, The earth did compass thy estate, Thou didst ...
The Celebrated Woman – An Epistle By A Married Man (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?— Can I conceive the woes that try men,When late repentance racks the soul ...
A Dorset Idyl (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
_HARCOMBE NEAR LYME_September: 1878 Before me with one happy heave Of golden green the hillside curves, ...
Narcissus (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is ...
Bedfordshire Ballad – II (E W Bowling Poems)
One Glass Of Beer. Tom Smith was the son of a Bedfordshire man; (The Smiths, we all know, are a ...
Song of the Guitar. (Bai JuYi Poems)
In the tenth year of Yuanhe I was banished and demoted to be assistant official in Jiujiang. In the summer ...
The Second Mate (Fitz James O Brien Poems)
"HO, there! Fisherman, hold your hand! Tell me, what is that far away,- There, where over the isle of ...