Pleading For Mercy (John Newton Poems)
In mercy, not in wrath, rebukeThy feeble worm, my God!My spirit dreads thine angry look,And trembles at thy rod.Have mercy, ...
Enemy Poems (848 Poems)
The Fear (Pablo Neruda Poems)
They all ask me to jumpto invigorate and to play soccer,to run, to swim and to fly. Very well. They all advise ...
The Killer (Judith Wright Poems)
The day was clear as fire,the birds sang frail as glass,when thirsty I came to the creekand fell by its ...
APRIL 10, 1999 (June Jordan Poems)
The enemies proliferateby airby landthey bomb the citiesthey burn the earththey force the families into miles and miles of violent ...
Tis Finished (Henry Clay Work Poems)
'Tis finished! 'tis ended!The dread and awful task is done;Tho' wounded and bleeding,'tis ours to sing the vict'ry won,Our nation ...
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen justa loquar ad te: quare via impiorum prosperatur?Thou art indeed just, ...
For Freedom (Howard Tilse Poems)
Hark! the call to arms is sounding!Hark! the tramp of marching feet!What then is the use of stayingThough the breath ...
The Story Of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol (Eric Torgersen Poems)
The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol-AP Dispatch, Des Moines Register, August 4, 1968The slain enemy resembledan American ...
Psalm CXXVI. P. M. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Israel's Song of Praise for Deliverance from BabylonishCaptivity.WHEN God our freedom wrought,With high uplifted hand;And Zion's captives broughtBack to their ...
Letter to an Archaeologis (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, uttergarbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht;a scalp so often scalded with boiling waterthat the puny brain ...
God Save The King (Henry Carey Poems)
GOD save our gracious King,Long live our noble King,God save the King! Send him victorious,Happy and glorious,Long to reign over ...
Brittle Beauty (Henry Howard Poems)
Brittle beauty that nature made so frail,Whereof the gift is small, and short the season,Flowering today, tomorrow apt to fail,Tickle ...
Dream Song 116: Through the forest, followed, Henry made his silky way (John Berryman Poems)
Through the forest, followed, Henry made his silky way,No chickadee was troubled, small moss smiledon his swift passage.But there were ...
The Sleep-Walkers (Khalil Gibran Poems)
In the town where I was born lived a woman and her daughter, whowalked in their sleep.One night, while silence ...
The Sad Day (Thomas Flatman Poems)
O THE sad day!When friends shall shake their heads, and sayOf miserable me--'Hark, how he groans!Look, how he pants for ...
A National Hymn (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
1. Oh God of ages past, and age that ne'er shall endBless Thou our fervent hope,And to our President Thy ...
Dream Song 10 (John Berryman Poems)
There were strange gatherings. A vote would comethat would be no vote. There would come a rope.Yes. There would come ...
Despite (Franklin P. Adams Poems)
The terrible things that the GovernorOf Kansas says alarm me;And yet somehow we won the warIn spite of the Regular ...
Paint Box (Phoebe Hesketh Poems)
He tried to tell them what he felt,could say it only in colours---Sunday's white page shading to greyof evening clocks ...
Dream Song 9: Deprived of his enemy, shrugged to a standstill (John Berryman Poems)
Deprived of his enemy, shrugged to a standstillhorrible Henry, foaming. Fan their waytoward him who willin the high wood: the ...
Epinikion. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
WE built thy walls, O Zion,In sorrow and in fear;And each builder kept his eye onHis battle-axe and spearAs he ...
Righteous Wrath (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
There are many kinds of anger, as many kinds of fire;And some are fierce and fatal with murderous desire;And some ...
Consolation In Adversity (Johannes Carsten Hauch Poems)
WHEN happiness turns from you,And all seems unrepaid,And you are scorned by enemies,Even by friends betrayed;Then think but little of ...
Complaint to Europe (Raphael Patkanian Poems)
"Have you forgotten, Europe, how the dartOf the fierce Persian pointed at your heart,Until, on that dread field of Avarair,Armenian ...
[Month of] January (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
It freezes- all across a soundless skyThe birds go home. The governing dark's begun:The steadfast dark that waits not for a ...
Thyrsis And Damon. (Henry Baker Poems)
I.Thyrsis. Simple Damon! tell me whyDost thou not reveal thy anguish,But in Silence pine and languish?To thy self an Enemy.If she ...
Brock: Valiant Leader (John Daniel Logan Poems)
(Fell at Queenston Heights, 1812)VALIANT leader of the little bandThat, fearless, forward rushed to victory,Tho far outnumbered by the enemy,And, ...
[Month of] March (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The north-cast wind has come from Norroway,Roaring he came above the white waves' tips!The foam of the loud sea was ...
In Memory Of Charles H. Sandford. (George Pope Morris Poems)
He died, as he had lived, beloved, Without an enemy on earth;In word and deed he breathed and moved The soul of ...
Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart, three-person (John Donne Poems)
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for YouAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;That I may rise and ...