IV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
My beloved is offended: would there were any one who would conciliate her!Arise quickly, O mediator! for my heart is ...
Custom & Convention Poems (428 Poems)
Compensation (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
O RICH young lord, thou ridest byWith looks of high disdain;It chafes me not thy title high,Thy blood of oldest ...
Ch 01 Manner of Kings Story 19 (Sa di Poems)
It is related that, whilst some game was being roasted for Nushirvan the just during a hunting party, no salt ...
Time Exposure (Josephine Jacobsen Poems)
Never can spring be known so wellAs in this wicked dark December,Nor touched-all emerald and limber-As in this winter citadel.The ...
Te-Totaller’ (John Pierpont Poems)
Be days of drinking wine forgot,Let water goblets shine—And from your memory ever blotThe days of drinking wine.Those days of ...
Doing Without (David Ray Poems)
's an interestingcustom, involving such in-visible items as the foodthat's not on the table, the clothesthat are not on the ...
Only Thine. (George Pope Morris Poems)
I know that thou art mine, my love, I know that thou art fair;And lovelier than the orange-flowers That bind thy glossy ...
Reservoirs (R S Thomas Poems)
There are places in Wales I don't go:Reservoirs that are the subconciousOf a people, troubled far downWith gravestones, chapels, villages ...
Dream Song 124:” Behold I bring you tidings of great joy” (John Berryman Poems)
Behold I bring you tidings of great joy-especially now that the snow & gale are still-for Henry is delivered.Not only ...
The Dark Little Rose (Michael Earls Poems)
IRELANDWhen shall we find the spring come in,And the fragrant air it blows?And when shall the bounty of summer winFairer ...
Custom (John William Inchbold Poems)
Are there no slaves but those who wear a chain? None with the deep curse branded on their breast, But those whose ...
Fragments Supposed To Be Parts Of Otho (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.Those whom nor power, nor lying faith, nor toil,Nor custom, queen of many slaves, makes blind,Have ever grieved that man ...
Tosh Bosh (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Ah, Passion, like a voice - that buds!With many thorns…that sharply stick:Recalls to me the longing of our bloods…And - ...
Our Minds Are Married, But We are Too Young (George Orwell Poems)
Our minds are married, but we are too young For wedlock by the customs of this age When parent homes pen each ...
Angle of Geese (Navarre Scott Momaday Poems)
How shall we adornRecognition with our speech?-Now the dead firstbornWill lag in the wake of words.Custom intervenes;We are civil, something ...
The Bravest Soul (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
The toil of life is never ending;It passes from one stage to others;We live beneath its sombre bending,And ape the ...
Sonnet: Political Greatness (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame,Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or arts,Shepherd those herds whom tyranny makes ...
Egypt-Port Said – En Route (Henry Jean-Marie Levet Poems)
To Gabriel FabreOne looks at the brilliant fires of Port Said,As the Jews looked at the Promised Land;Because one cannot ...
Ave atque Vale (Gaius Valerius Catullus Poems)
Through many countries and over many seasI have come, Brother, to these melancholy rites,to show this final honour to the ...
Epilogue. As ’tis the custom of play-actors (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
As 'tis the custom of play-actors,To thank their friends and benefactors,In epilogues compos'd in verse,Which they, like apes, do but ...
Taste (Mark Akenside Poems)
What, then, is taste but those internal powers,Active and strong, and feeling aliveTo each fine impulse? a discerning senseOf decent ...
Flowers From Waterloo (John Kenyon Poems)
We sprang on no ignoble soil; 'Twas on the field of Waterloo. Our culture was the battle-toil, And many a hero's blood-our dew. Yet, ...
Grace (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
How much, preventing God! how much I oweTo the defenses thou hast round me set:Example, custom, fear, occasional slow,These scorned ...
Ruins (Ronald Stuart Thomas Poems)
And this was a civilizationThat came to nothing--he spurned with his toeThe slave-coloured dust. We breathed it inThankfully, oxygen to ...
Epigram V – The Trinity (John Collings Squire Poems)
CUSTOMS die hard In this our native land;And still in Northern France, I understand,Our gallant boys, as through the fray ...
Lament for Mr Tai (Li Po Poems)
Wine-maker there by Yellow Fountains,'Eternal Spring' that's still your vintage.Without Li Po on Night's TerraceWho can there be to bring ...
Sir Pavon And St. Pavon (E Foxton Poems)
Part 1. St. Mark's hushed abbey heardThrough prayers a roar and din;A brawling voice did shout, "Knave shaveling, let me ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Third. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
While morning yet was young, within his hall Of justice Pharaoh sat: his princes, priests, Judges, and ministers, in costly ...
A Voice From The Factories (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions (D A Levy Poems)
"1.WARMING UP THE BOXdelivered on time to persons with city & state line bearing only the words DEATH CITY - ...