By The Quay (Roderic Quinn Poems)
I KNEW a ship in the magical timeOf painted toy and nursery rhymeThat quested the world with sails unfurled,And fluttered ...
Courage Poems (3157 Poems)
The Lady of the Motor Car (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Lady of the Motor-car she stareth straight ahead;Her face is like the stone, my friend, her face is like ...
Tubes (Donald Hall Poems)
1'Up, down, good, bad,' saidthe man with the tubesup his nose, ' there's lotsof variety.However, notionsof balance betweenextremes of fortuneare ...
Garibaldi: A Captive (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Ye minist'ring spirits of grace, That wait on the good and the true,To comfort, support, and solace— Earth fails us—we call upon ...
The Fir-Tree and the Brook (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
The Fir-Tree looked on stars, but loved the Brook!"O silver-voiced! if thou wouldst wait,My love can bravely woo." All smiles ...
A Fragment (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"Maiden, as bright as the Hunter's star,When it shines in its cloudless home afar;Dove of the forest, whose timorous eyesAre ...
Kept The Flag Floating (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
"Thank God, we have kept the flag floating."-- General White.Some men, like French, display much dash; They boldly rush upon the ...
Toreador (Jean Cocteau Poems)
Pepita queen of VeniceWhen you go beneath your shutterAll gondoliers call out:Watch out--Toreador!No one rules your heartIn the grand palace ...
I Know I Love Thee (John Hartley Poems)
I shall never forget the day, Annie, When I bid thee a fond adieu;With a careless good bye I left thee, For ...
The Irish Soldier (John Banim Poems)
The Irish soldier, cast for fight,Stood to his arms at dead of night,Watching the east, until its rayTo the battle--field ...
Now and After (John William Streets Poems)
NOW."Mother of England! why do you weep?""My heart's with the fate of my own dearest sonsFighting for Freedom against modern ...
A Cry to Arms (Henry Timrod Poems)
Ho! woodsmen of the mountain side!Ho! dwellers in the vales!Ho! ye who by the chafing tideHave roughened in the gales!Leave ...
The Shoemaker (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Thou Poet, who, like any lark, Dost whet thy beak and trill From misty morn till murky dark, Nor ever pipe thy fill: Hast ...
Carney, The Brave Standard Bearer (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
'Twas a time of fiercest conflict,Enmity and awful woe,'Twixt the North, the friend of Freedom,And the South, its bitter foe.Day ...
Australia Day 1942 (Ian Mudie Poems)
If ever it were time for the dead to ridethen surely that time is now:From the Leeuwin's cliffs to the ...
To A Swallow Building Under Our Eaves (Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle Poems)
Thou too hast traveled, little fluttering thing, -Hast seen the world, and now thy weary wingThou too must rest.But much, ...
Voices Of The Night : A Psalm Of Life (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are ...
Wheat Grains (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
AS grains from chaff, I sift these worldly rules,Kernels of wisdom, from the husks of schools:I.Benevolence befits the wisest mind;But ...
Battle-Worn Banners (Park Benjamin Poems)
I saw the soldiers come todayFrom battlefield afar;No conquerors rode before their wayOn his triumphal car;But captains, like themselves, on ...
Young Kings and Old (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Young King fights in the trenches and the Old King fights in the rear-Because he is old and feeble, ...
The King (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
They rode right out of the morning sun--A glimmering, glittering cavalcadeOf knights and ladies and every oneIn princely sheen arrayed;And ...
Translation Of The Famous Greek War Song (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Sons of the Greeks, arise! The glorious hour's gone forth,And, worthy of such ties, Display who gave us birth. CHORUS. Sons of Greeks! let ...
In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo (Paul Engle Poems)
The Japanese next to me at the barbites at his sake with big irregular teeth.Behind the heavy glasses (which he ...
At A Banquet For Professor Ludv. Kr. Daa (Bj Poems)
Youthful friends here a circle form,Elder foes now surrender.Feel among us in safety, warm,Toward you our hearts are tender.Once again ...
These Lines Are Inscribed To The Memory Of John Q. Carlin, Killed At Buena Vista (George W Sands Poems)
Warrior of the youthful brow,Eager heart and eagle eye!Pants thy soul for battle now?Burns thy glance with victory?Dost thou dream ...
Lines. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
To the Memory of George Kilpatrick, Esq., Surgeon of the ExpeditionAppointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in the ...
The Southern Cross (Henry Saint George Tucker Poems)
Oh! say can you see, through the gloom and the storm,More bright for the darkness, that pure constellation?Like the symbol ...
The Triumph Of Britons (John Wolcot Poems)
Again we begin to be Britons, my boys, While united success we command:Lo, each Tar on the Ocean a triumph enjoys, And ...
Our Volunteers (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
Where shall we write your names, ye brave! Where build for you a monument,Who lie in many a sylvan grave, Stretched half ...
Battle Of Corruna (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
The tide of fate rolls on!--heart-pierced and pale,The gallant soldier lies, nor aught avail,The shield, the sword, the spirit of ...