Game Called (Henry Grantland Rice Poems)
1910 versionGame Called.Across the field of playthe dusk has come, the hour is late.The fight is done and lost or ...
Defeats Poems (398 Poems)
The Fire (John Freeman Poems)
Near the house flowed, or paused, the black Canal,Edged by the timber piles so black and tall.From the rotten fence ...
I Don’t Care (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
"I don't care," we hear it oft And oft, the words are seeming fair;But many a heartache lies beneath A careless "I ...
To The Thirty-Ninth Congress (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O PEOPLE-CHOSEN! are ye notLikewise the chosen of the Lord,To do His will and speak His word?From the loud thunder-storm ...
A Challenge (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
To have lived, to have loved, to have triumphed!--what more can the world bestow?I stand at the close of the conflict, ...
“Peace, With Honour.” (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
"Peace with honour," glorious, joy-lit words!Britons, lay down your arms, re-sheath your swords,For the red demon War lies foiled and ...
The Fall (John Freeman Poems)
From that warm height and pure, The peak undreamed of out of heavy air Rising to heaven more strange and rare;From that ...
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 ...
The Fall Of The Leaves (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IIn warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood:I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.Above ...
A Girls’ Grave (Patrick Edward Quinn Poems)
What story is here of broken love, What idyllic sad romance,What arrow fretted the silken dove That met with such grim mischance?I ...
For The Man Who Fails (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
The world is a snob, and the man who wins Is the chap for its money's worth: And the lust for success ...
The Released Rebel Prisoner (Herman Melville Poems)
June, 1865Armies he's seen--the herds of war, But never such swarms of menAs now in the Nineveh of the North-- How mad ...
Tasting the Earth (James Oppenheim Poems)
In a dark hour, tasting the Earth.As I lay on my couch in the muffled night, and the rain lashed ...
At the Tug-O-War (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Twas in a tug-of-war where I-the guvnor's hope and pride-Stepped proudly on the platform as the ringer on my side;Old ...
On A Great Warrior (Henry Abbey Poems)
When all the sky was wild and dark,When every heart was wrung with fear,He rose serene, and took his place,The ...
A Song Of Keats (Roderic Quinn Poems)
'TIS a tarnished book and old,Edges frayed and covers green!But, between the covers, gold -Gold and jewels in between.And this ...
Anniversary of the Great Retreat (1915) (Isabel Constance Clarke Poems)
Now a whole year has waxed and waned and whitenedOver the mounds that marked the grim advance;The winter snows have ...
Heart-Throbs (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
We suffer and ye know it not,Nor yet can ever know,What depth of bitterness is ours,Or why we suffer so;--If ...
The Birthday Party (Josephine Jacobsen Poems)
The sounds are the sea, breaking out of sight,and down the green slope the children's voicesthat celebrate the fact of ...
Sloth (I) & (II) (Bernard O’Dowd Poems)
Sloth (I)Too many a Samsan lip your teeth indent:Too many a Sybil girl you lure to makeThe Great Refusal for ...
Melancholy (James Avis Bartley Poems)
There comes a time for flowers to fade, and light to die in gloom,There is a time for mortal bliss ...
Each Defeat (Eileen Myles Poems)
Please! Keepreading meBlakebecause you're going to makeme the greatestpoet ofall timeKeep smoothingthe stones in thedrivewaylet me fry an eggon your ...
At Bay (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
This the end, then, of striving; this is what comes of it all;Darkness and foes just behind one; before, an ...
The Winner (Henry Grantland Rice Poems)
The cove who never kids himself,Who looks at facts without a frown,Who knows that life is full of knots,And not ...
Another, On The Same Subject (Rees Prichard Poems)
THOU Rock of my salvation, lend thy aid!Arm me in all thy panoply complete,And leave no single member unarray'd,Lest the ...
Harbor (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
AND will you rest at last, storm-beaten spirit,In this poor heart, who would your haven be,Will you sink down at ...
The “Kentucky” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
(Battleship, launched March 24, 1898.)IHere's to her who bears the name Of our State;May the glory of her fame Be as great!In ...
The Zeppelin Armada (Jessie Pope Poems)
"TO-DAY, since Zeppelins are in the air,And folks glance skywards as they go their ways,Let us hark back a bit ...
What turned the Germans Back (Katharine Tynan Poems)
WHAT turned the German myriads back From Paris whither they had won?The sword dropped from their hold grown slack; Children of Attila ...
The Conqueror (Henry Grantland Rice Poems)
HERE I shall waitTo meet the rush of some relentless fate,Content to know that I will be supremeAgainst the bitter ...