Sonnets of the Empire: Hawk (Archibald Thomas Strong Poems)
Great sea dog, fighter in the great old way! What though thy ships were tinder, and the pest Rotted thy ...
Dogs Poems (1420 Poems)
In March (Archibald Lampman Poems)
The sun falls warm: the southern winds awake:The air seethes upwards with a steamy shiver:Each dip of the road is ...
Autumn At The Bridge (Cale Young Rice Poems)
Brown dropping of leaves, Soft rush of the wind, Slow searing of sheaves On the hill; ...
More Sonnets At Christmas IV (Allen Tate Poems)
Gay citizen, myself, and thoughtful friend,Your ghosts are Plato's Christians in the cave.Unfix your necks, turn to the door; the ...
Thou Also (George MacDonald Poems)
Cry out upon the crime, and then let slipThe dogs of hate, whose hanging muzzles trackThe bloody secret; let the ...
Unfolding the Flocks (Beaumont and Fletcher Poems)
Shepherds, rise, and shake off sleep — See the blushing morn doth peepThrough your windows, while the sunTo the mountain-tops ...
Andy the Night-Watch (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about ...
Twilight At The Heights (Cincinnatus Hiner Miller Miller Poems)
"The brave young city by the Balboa seas Lies compassed about by the hosts of night- Lies humming, low, like ...
E. Curses The Rich (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
San Teodulo, give them vinegar when they thirst.Holy Peter, when they hunger, look the otherway.St. Frigid, if they bleed, have ...
In France (Bryan Waller Procter Poems)
The poplars in the fields of France Are golden ladies come to dance; But yet to see them there is ...
Kuokkala (Benedikt Livshits Poems)
Roses in silken bouillon:Opening onto the azure silkA line of cabins on a yellow bed -Shells of Aphrodite.Who wouldn't feel ...
In France (Frances Darwin Cornford Poems)
THE poplars in the fields of France Are golden ladies come to dance ; But yet to see them there ...
Sunday (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
—for my fatherYesterday was Sunday. Your grandsonstared at your feet and foundthe eclipse that moved for yearsacross your nails. He ...
Doc Hill (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I went up and down the streetsHere and there by day and night,Through all hours of the night caring for ...
Nine Miles from Gundagai (1) (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
As I was coming down Conroy's Gap,I heard a maiden cry;'There goes Bill the Bullocky,He's bound for Gundagai.A better poor ...
Corpses In The Woods (Ernst Toller Poems)
A dung heap of rotting corpses: Glazed eyes, bloodshot, Brains split, guts spewed outThe air poisoned by the stink of ...
Counting The Mad (Donald Justice Poems)
This one was put in a jacket, This one was sent home, This one was given bread and meat But ...
First Request (Antanas Skema Poems)
As one star falls, others remain aloft.They soar and await their fall.A man dies, and the others say:"Thank God! It ...
The City (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
A white bird is the big sky.Under it a cowering city stares.The houses are half-dead old people.A gaunt carriage-horse gapes ...
Station Dog (Arun Kolatkar Poems)
the spirit of the placelives inside the mangy bodyof the station dogdoing penance for the last three hundred years underthe ...
The Hollow Wood (Edward Thomas Poems)
Out in the sun the goldfinch flitsAlong the thistle-tops, flits and twitsAbove the hollow woodWhere birds swim like fish -Fish ...
from…….. (Ben Jonson Poems)
The owl is abroad,the bat and the toad,And so is the cat-a mountain,The ant and the mole sit both in ...
Landscape (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
Like old bones in the potOf noon the damned streets lie there.It's a long time since I saw you here.A ...
‘Atkins’ (George Meredith Poems)
Yonder's the man with his life in his hand,Legs on the march for whatever the land,Or to the slaughter, or ...
The Creature’s Stare (Franz Werfel Poems)
You stroke the fur of the big fine dog.Looking way down into its eyes, you speak,Pointing out for me the ...
The Crows kept flying Up (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
The crows kept flyin' up, boys,The crows kept flyin' up.The dog he seen and whimpered, boys,Though he was but a ...
A New Version (Edwin Carty Ranck Poems)
Old Mother Hubbard She went to the cupboard, To find a nice bone for her dog. ...
The Little Brown Owl (Clara Doty Bates Poems)
The little brown owl sits up in the Tree, And if you look well His big eyes you ...
Pussy-cat sits by the fire (Beatrix Potter Poems)
Pussy-cat sits by the fire;How should she be fair? In walks the little dog,Says "Pussy! are you there?""How do you ...
Night settles (Ch-on-gum Poems)
Night settles on this mountain village; a dog barks 'way over there. From the gate of my hut I see ...