A Fool (Francis W L Adams Poems)
HE asked me of my friend - "a clever man;Such various talent, business, journalism;A pen that might some day have ...
Capital Poems (129 Poems)
The Wars and the Unknown Soldier (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
IDry leaves, soldier, dry leaves, dead leaves;voices of leaves on the wind that bears them to destruction,impassioned prayer, impassioned ...
Last Poet (Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky Poems)
The age proceeds along its iron path,All hearts a brim with greed; and every hourOur common dreams grow ever more ...
A Dirge of the Morning After (C J Dennis Poems)
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (wailing dismally):"Who can deliver us, Lord of our destiny! Out of the depths comes our passionate ...
Practising The Anthem (Ada Cambridge Poems)
A summer wind blows through the open porch, And, 'neath the rustling eaves, A summer light of moonrise, calm ...
The Bush Of Australia (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Now, all intent to emigrate,Come listen to the doleful fate,Which did befall to me of late,When I went to the ...
July Fourth (Freeman Edwin Miller Poems)
Hail, glorious morning of Columbia's birth, Celestial dawn of freedom! There shall be In recognition of thy wondrous worth ...
The Pitiful Young Prince (Du Fu Poems)
Hooded crows fly at night over the walls of Chang'an,uttering harsh cries above Welcoming Autumn Gate,then head for ...
Twenty-Two Rhymes To Left-Prime-Minister Wei (Du Fu Poems)
Boys in fancy clothes never starve,but Confucian scholars often find their lives in ruin. Please listen to my explanation, Sir,I, ...
The Great Strike (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Strike! Strike! Stop! Stop! What mean these shouts that rise — This great commotion throughout all the land,That chills the ...
The Dictator (C J Dennis Poems)
Avaunt! What news is this I hear Of portent grim and sinister?Is he, whose words insult mine ear, A mere, ...
Enigma XXII. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
A CHAIN of hills in Asia seek,Where snow o'erspreads the summit's bleak, Throughout the live long year;While all the ...
Upon A Wasp Chilled With Cold (Edward Taylor Poems)
The bear that breathes the northern blastDid numb, torpedo-like, a waspWhose stiffened limbs encramped, lay bathingIn Sol's warm breath and ...
Forgetful Pa (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
My Pa says that he used to beA bright boy in geography;An' when he went to school he knewThe rivers ...
Remembrance (Denis Florence MacCarthy Poems)
With that pleasant smile thou wearest,Thou art gazing on the fairest Wonders of the earth and sea:Do thou not, in ...
Father Explains (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
There where that ray touches the plainAnd the shadows escape as if they really ran,Warsaw stands, open from all sides,A ...
The Children Look At The Parents (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
We being so hidden from those whoHave quietly borne and fed us,How can we answer civillyTheir innocent invitations?How can we ...
Epilogue (Charles Baudelaire Poems)
With quiet heart, I climbed the hill,from which one can see, the city, complete,hospitals, brothels, purgatory, hell,prison, where every sin ...
Dreaming Of Li Bai (2) (Du Fu Poems)
Clouds drifting the whole day;a traveler traveling who never arrives.Three nights you have been in my dreams;as your friend, I ...
More Sonnets At Christmas I (Allen Tate Poems)
To Denis DevlinAgain the native hour lets down the locksUncombed and black, but gray the bobbing beard;Ten years ago His ...
The Cabaret In The Suburbs (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
The sweaty heads of waiters tower above the roomLike lofty and powerful capitals.Lice-ridden boys giggle nastily.And shining girls give painfully ...
For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
August First: it was a year ago we drove down from St.-Guilhem-le-Désert to open the house in St. Guiraud rented ...
A Spring Piece Left In The Middle (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
Taut, thick fingers punch the teeth of my typewriter. Three words are down on paper in capitals: SPRING SPRING SPRING... ...
THE FAIRY TEMPLE; OR, OBERON’S CHAPEL (Robert Herrick Poems)
THE FAIRY TEMPLE; OR, OBERON'S CHAPEL DEDICATED TO MR JOHN MERRIFIELD, COUNSELLOR AT LAW RARE TEMPLES THOU HAST SEEN, I ...
from the Ansty Experience (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
Plutonian Ode (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
War Profit Litany (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
To Ezra Pound These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
In the Grip of the Madman (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The country convulsing wanting to be free the east already gone the noose tightening but the capital still captive in ...
Fuel on the Fires (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The despots unthinking following the old patterns firing on the people when no one was looking Something different in this ...