Tant ai mo cor (Bernard de Ventadorn Poems)
Tant ai mo cor ple de joya,tot me desnatura.Flor blancha, vermeilh'e groyame par la frejura,c'ab lo ven et ab la ...
Custom & Convention Poems (428 Poems)
To his most faythfull friend (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
A thing most straunge to tell, of late did chaunce to me:whiles yt I tooke my pen in had, to ...
On Church Communion – Part II. (John Byrom Poems)
If once establish'd the essential part,The inward Church, the Temple of the Heart,Or house of God, the substance, and the ...
Blessings of Instruction (John Bowring Poems)
The heart has tendrils like the vine,Which round another's bosom twine,Outspringing from the living treeOf deeply-planted sympathy;Whose flowers are hope, ...
Circle Day (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
Me and Billy's in the woodshed; Ma said, "Run outdoors and play;Be good boys and don't be both'rin', till the ...
De Tea Fabula (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
Do I sleep? Do I dream?Am I hoaxed by a scout?Are things what they seem,Or is Sophists about?Is our 'to ...
The Yellow Rose (George Sterling Poems)
Sad Autumn is the miser of thy gold; But dead and meek Thy petals speak More than thy beauty told.Now art thou sister ...
Mountain Sonnets (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HERE let me pause by the lone eagle's nest,And breathe the ...
Cultural Exchange (Langston Hughes Poems)
In the Quarter of the NegroesWhere the doors are doors of paperDust of dingy atomsBlows a scratchy sound.Amorphous jack-o'-Lanterns caperAnd ...
The Mountain Splitter (Henry Lawson Poems)
HE WORKS in the glen where the waratah grows, And the gums and the ashes are tall,'Neath cliffs that re-echo the ...
A Last Word (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
OH, for some cup of consummating might,Filled with life's kind conclusion, lost in night!A wine of darkness, that with death ...
The Emulation (Sarah Fyge Poems)
Say, Tyrant Custom, why must we obeyThe impositions of thy haughty Sway;From the first dawn of Life, unto the Grave,Poor ...
Valedictory Address To The D–n (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
John Alexander Frere, John,When we were first acquent,You lectured us as FreshmenIn the holy term of Lent;But now you're gettin' ...
Reflections On An Evening (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WITHIN this lonely beauteous spot retir'd,Far from the world and fashion's giddy throng,My youthful muse, by Nature's charms inspir'd,Has learn'd ...
The Unusual Goose And The Imbecilic Woodcutter (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A woodcutter bought him a gander, Or at least that was what he supposed, As a matter of fact, 'twas a slander As ...
Alaskan Boundary Settlement (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
My neighbor's farm and mine lie side by side,And nothing should our mutual trust divide;But they who made th' original ...
On The Future Of Poetry (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
Bards of the Future! you that come With striding march, and roll of drum, What will your newest challenge be To our prose-bound ...
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 ...
Prologue To A Charade.–“Damn-Ages” (Horace Smith Poems)
In olden time--in great Eliza's age,When rare Ben Jonson ruled the humorous stage,No play without its Prologue might appearTo earn ...
Lover’s Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
I shall gladly suffer the pride of culture to die out in my house,if only in some happy future I ...
Loved And Lost (John Marchborn Cooley Poems)
Love cannot call her back again,But oh! it may presumeWith ceaseless accents to complain,All wildly near her tomb.A madd'ning mirage ...
The Brief Journey West (Howard Nemerov Poems)
By the dry road the fathers cough and spit,This is their room. They are the ones who hungThat bloody sun ...
Out Of the Ranks (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
From the bitter fight I have made my wayTo the peaceful crest of a lonely hill,But the noise and heat ...
The Coming Woman (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love—And not even the fires are caught;Well, you know I must be at ...
Trust In God And Do The Right (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Courage, brother, do not stumble, Though thy path be dark as night; There's a star to guide the humble-- Trust in God and ...
Possessions (Ken Smith Poems)
They spent my life plotting against me.With nothing to do but cultivate themselves,but to be there, aligning their shadows,they were ...
LIV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
The Afghans have gone mad about posts and dignities;But God preserve me, from such plagues and troubles!Unto whom belongeth the ...
A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice From One Long Dead (Kenneth Koch Poems)
Who was my teacher at Harvard. Did not wear overcoatSaying to me as we walked across the YardCold brittle autumn ...
The Secret Police (Ken Smith Poems)
They are listening in the wires,in the walls, under the eavesin the wings of house martins,in the ears of old ...
Welsh History (R S Thomas Poems)
We were a people taut for war; the hillsWere no harder, the thin grassClothed them more warmly than the coarseShirts ...