The Brave Men (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
HERE'S to the men who laugh In the face of grim despair, Who gather the tares and chaff But sow ...
Defeats Poems (398 Poems)
The Right To Joy (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I DO not ask for roses all the time, For blue skies bending o'er me every day, I do not ...
IV. Things dependent or not dependent on us (Ellis Walker Poems)
If then thou dost desire such things as these,If thou wouldst tread these flow'ry ways of peace,Remember that with fervency ...
A Prayer (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
God grant me kindly thought And patience through the day, And in the things I've wrought Let no ...
The Unattained (Elizabeth Oakes Smith Poems)
And is this life? and are we born for this?To follow phantoms that elude the grasp,Or whatso'er's secured, within our ...
Duty (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
To do your little bit of toil,To play life's game with head erect; To stoop to nothing that would soilYour ...
To Aurelio Saffi (George MacDonald Poems)
To God and man be simply true;Do as thou hast been wont to do;Bring out thy treasures, old and new—Mean ...
T’is So Much Joy (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy!If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as ...
Sloth [II] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
My dreams dissolve the day's illusive net:While crested Action's billows blinding beat,Omniscient Eyes in troughs of Faith I meet:I wait ...
Wind (Fannie Stearns Davis Poems)
The Wind bows down the poplar trees, The Wind bows down the crested seas; And he has bowed the heart ...
To His lady, (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IMPLORING HER TO BE TRUEMISTRESS of me, mistress of all the arts And charms that sway men's hot ungoverned hearts, ...
The Flag (Arthur Symons Poems)
I lay a tattered flag before your feet In sign of conquest. Conquerors ate proud Of a rent flag: each ...
Human Failings (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
RECKON when our days are doneAnd God takes up our record sheets, And sees the battles we have won, He'll ...
Defeat? (Francis W L Adams Poems)
WHO is it speaks of defeat? -I tell you a Cause like oursIs greater than defeat can know;It is the ...
The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
In the Street (Henry Lawson Poem)
Where the needle-woman toils Through the night with hand and brain, Till the sickly daylight shudders like a spectre at ...
Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
The Poets (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living ...
Loss And Gain (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
When I compare What I have lost with what I have gained, What I have missed with what attained, Little ...
The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
The Benefactors (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
Ode to Himself upon the Censure of his New Inn (Ben Jonson Poem)
Come, leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age; Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, Usurp the chair ...
Hurt Hawks (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, ...
We Are Those People (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened And forecast victory; never one moment's doubt. ...
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum: verumtamen justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? &c. Thou art ...
Rain (Jack Gilbert Poem)
Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In ...
The Naked And The Nude (Robert Graves Poem)
For me, the naked and the nude (By lexicographers construed As synonyms that should express The same deficiency of dress ...
A Message of Acceptance (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A letter to the people, his people in exile, of acceptance to their lot, this season in exile, as willed ...