More for the Money (C J Dennis Poems)
What are the wild waves saying now that their lengths are changed?In a manner most dismaying are the stations now ...
Citizenship Poems (201 Poems)
The Jolly Bargeman (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I've put the old mare's tail in plaits &mdash now ain't she lookin' gay,With ribbons in 'er mane likewise, you'd ...
Marston Moor (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
July 2: 1644O, summer-high that day the sunHis chariot drove o'er Marston wold:A rippling sea of amber wheatThat floods the ...
Chorus of Athenians (Alexander Pope Poems)
Strophe I.Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought;Groves, where immortal Sages taught;Where heav'nly visions of Plato fir'd,And Epicurus lay inspir'd!In ...
Crossing The Road (A P Herbert Poems)
(With mild apologies to the L.P.T.B.)O silly Brown, O silly Brown,Be careful, do, in London Town.Do not attempt to cross ...
Jealousy (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
AD LYDIAMHorace: Book I., Ode 13._"Quem tu, Lydia, TelephiCervicem roseam, cerea Telephi--"_What time thou yearnest for the arms Of Telephus, ...
Elegy (Allen Tate Poems)
Jefferson Davis: 1808-1889No more the white refulgent streets.Never the dry hollows of the mindShall he in fine courtesy walkAgain, for ...
Sonnet On The American war. “She has gone down!” they shout it from afar,” (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
She has gone down! they shout it from afar, Kings-nobles-priests-all men of every race, Whose lagging clogs Time's ...
Fabrication Of Ancestors (Alan Dugan Poems)
For old Billy Dugan, shot in the ass in the Civil War, my father said.The old wound in my ass ...
Young Reynard (George Meredith Poems)
IGracefullest leaper, the dappled fox-cubCurves over brambles with berries and buds,Light as a bubble that flies from the tub,Whisked by ...
From Stone to Steel (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
From stone to bronze, from bronze to steelAlong the road-dust of the sun,Two revolutions of the wheelFrom Java to Geneva ...
Sonnet 16 (Amos Bronson Alcott Poems)
WHEN I remember with what buoyant heart, Midst war's alarms and woes of civil strife, In youthful eagerness, thou didst ...
An Orson Of The Muse (George Meredith Poems)
Her son, albeit the Muse's liveryAnd measured courtly paces rouse his taunts,Naked and hairy in his savage haunts,To Nature only ...
Society (George Meredith Poems)
Historic be the survey of our kind,And how their brave Society took shape.Lion, wolf, vulture, fox, jackal and ape,The strong ...
Sonnet CLXV: “As stands a statue on its pedestal” (George Henry Boker Poems)
As stands a statue on its pedestal, Amidst the storms of civil mutiny, With an unchanged and high serenity, Though ...
On The Sherbonians (Elizabeth Beverley Poems)
THE Sherbone people are all very civil,If you give them their way;--so is the Devil.(Elizabeth Beverley)
Muerte De Anto?ito El Camborio (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
Voces de muerte sonaron cerca del Guadalquivir. Voces antiguas que cercan voz de clavel varonil. Les clav? sobre las botas ...
The Young British Soldier (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
Promise Of Peace (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The heads of strong old age are beautiful Beyond all grace of youth. They have strange quiet, Integrity, health, soundness, ...
ANTHEA’S RETRACTATION (Robert Herrick Poems)
Anthea laugh'd, and, fearing lest excess Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness She with a dainty blush rebuked her ...
TO MUSIC, TO BECALM A SWEET SICK YOUTH (Robert Herrick Poem)
Charms, that call down the moon from out her sphere, On this sick youth work your enchantments here! Bind up ...
What Kind Of Mistress He Would Have (Robert Herrick Poem)
Be the mistress of my choice, Clean in manners, clear in voice; Be she witty, more than wise, Pure enough, ...
Freedoms Plow (Langston Hughes Poem)
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
FORTUNE OF WAR. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
NOUGHT more accursed in war I know Than getting off scot-free; Inured to danger, on we go In constant victory; ...
THE FOX AND CRANE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ONCE two persons uninvited Came to join my dinner table; For the nonce they lived united, Fox and crane yclept ...
WHO’LL BUY GODS OF LOVE? (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
OF all the beauteous wares Exposed for sale at fairs, None will give more delight Than those that to your ...
The People Shall be Free (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The time may be uncertain but the tide has already turned the peoples of those nations that whole region of ...
Honest with Our Friends (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not just attacking, judging our enemies honest with our friends standing with all people Basic freedoms, justice for all speaking ...
If We had not been Silent (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
For year upon year for many ages, our leaders presidents of both parties all of them, failing to speak If ...
In a More Perfect World – 3 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We would rise up we would speak truth to power we would not hesitate thinking about the others Our hearts ...