The Battle Of Ivry (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
Now glory to the Lord of hosts, from whom all glories are!And glory to our sovereign liege, King Henry of ...
Dancing Poems (2243 Poems)
From “Odi Barbare” (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
XXIVWhat is far hence led to the den of making:Moves unlike wildfire; not so simple-happyPloughman hammers ploughshare his durum dentemDigging ...
On Parting (Khristo Botev Poems)
1868Don't cry, mother, don't grievethat I grew up as an outlaw,an outlaw, mother, a rebel,and abandoned you to your sorrow,mourning ...
On Memphis Station (Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Poems)
Half awake and half dozing,Struck by a drear reality, but still lostIn an inner sea fog of Danaidean dreamsI stand ...
Elegy IV (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes?We are not of one mind. Are not like birdsin unison migrating. ...
The Oceanides IV (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
THE SUNKEN ROCK.A gentle ship was sailing Upon the Indian seas,O lovely looked she sailing, So fair were wave and breeze:Yet sunken ...
The Dance Of The Seven Deadly Sins (William Dunbar Poems)
I.Of Februar the fiftene nichtFull lang before the dayis lichtI lay intill a tranceAnd then I saw baith Heaven and ...
Arcadia Rediviva (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I, walking the familiar street, While a crammed horse-car jingled through it,Was lifted from my prosy feet And in Arcadia ere I ...
Beautiful Snow (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and the earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of ...
Sappho (James Wright Poems)
The twilight falls; I soften the dusting feathers,And clean again.The house has lain and moldered for three days.The windows smeared ...
Rinaldo (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
CHORUS.To the strand! quick, mount the bark!If no favouring zephyrs blow,Ply the oar and nimbly row,And with zeal your prowess ...
An Artist (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarryman,Who astonished Rome and Paris in his meteor youth, and thenwas ...
Girls Spinning (Padraic Colum Poems)
FIRST GIRLMALLO lero iss im bo nero!Go where they're threshing and find me my lover,Mallo lero iss im bo bairn!SECOND ...
The Shepherd’s Week (excerpt) (John Gay Poems)
MONDAY, OR, THE SQUABBLELobbin Clout, Cuddy, CloddipoleCUDDYHold, witless Lobbin Clout, I thee advise,Lest blisters sore on thy own tongue arise.Lo ...
Let Us Go To Bethlehem (Rees Prichard Poems)
LET's to Bethlehem all advance,With song, with merriment, and dance,And see the blest Redeemer, bornTo us, on this auspicious morn.In ...
Philemon (Matilda Betham Poems)
YE blooming youth, possest of every grace,Which can delight the eye, or please the ear,Who boast a polish'd mind and ...
The May Morning (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE morning brightness showereth down from heaven;The morning freshness goeth up from earth;The morning gladness shineth everywhere!Soon as the sun, ...
The Street-Children’s Dance (Mathilde Blind Poems)
NOW the earth in fields and hillsStirs with pulses of the Spring,Next-embowering hedges ringWith interminable trills;Sunlight runs a race with ...
Pleurs (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
'T was eve; and Mount Conto Reflected in night The sunbeams that fled With the monarch of light; As great souls and noble Reflect evermore The ...
Elegy I (Henry James Pye Poems)
O Happiness! thou wish of every mind, Whose form, more subtle than the fleeting air, Leaves all thy votaries wandering far behind, Eludes ...
What Sayest Thou, Traveller (Paul Verlaine Poems)
What sayst thou, traveller, of all thou saw'st afar? On every tree hangs boredom, ripening to its fall,Didst gather it, thou ...
The Triumph Of Music (John Anster Poems)
Lonely was the blossomingOf the sad unwelcomed Spring;And Man, the slave of passions blind and brute,A wanderer in a world ...
To Georgiana, (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
ON THEMORNING OF HER BIRTH-DAY.LAST night, as musing on a layTo greet thee on thy natal day,Sleep o'er my eyes ...
October And May (Henry James Pye Poems)
ADDRESSED TO SAMUEL JAMES ARNOLD, Esq.: "Behold, with mild and matron mien, "With sober eye, and brow serene, "October sweep along; "Bright are ...
A Letter (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
After W. M. P.Dear Kitty,At length the term's ending;I 'm in for my Schools in a week;And the time that ...
Ode II: On The Winter-Solstice (Mark Akenside Poems)
IThe radiant ruler of the yearAt length his wintry goal attains;Soon to reverse the long career,And northward bend his steady ...
One of the Bo’sun’s Yarns (John Masefield Poems)
Loafin' around in Sailor Town, a-bluin' o' my advance,I met a derelict donkyman who led me a merry dance,Till he ...
Communion With Nature (Jared Barhite Poems)
'Tis sweet to hold communion With Nature true and wild, And feel the thrill of gladness She breathes upon her child, When close upon ...
An Epistle To The Earl Of Burlington (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
How happy you! who varied joys pursue;And every hour presents you something new!Plans, schemes, and models, all Palladio's art,For six ...
Elegy On The Death Of An Infant (John Wilson Poems)
Ere Margaret was three months old,Her father laid her in the mould!Poor Babe! her fleeting visit hereWas marked by many ...