The Halt Before Rome–September 1867 (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light ...
England Poems (928 Poems)
The Litany Of Nations (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine ...
The Song Of The Standard (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands, Queen and republican, crowned of the centuries whose years are thy ...
The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1 (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
The Emigrants: Book II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment C (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France (Alan Seeger Poems)
I Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, Commemorative of our soldier dead, When -- with sweet flowers of our ...
Fighting Mac (Robert William Service Poems)
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
The Logger (Robert William Service Poems)
In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight, I am sitting by the camp-fire's fading cheer; Oh, the ...
Botany Bay Eclogues 02 – Elinor (Robert Southey Poems)
(Time, Morning. Scene, the Shore.) Once more to daily toil--once more to wear The weeds of infamy--from every joy The ...
Mary – A Ballad (Robert Southey Poems)
Author Note: The story of the following ballad was related to me, when a school boy, as a fact which ...
Border Ballad (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale, Why the deil dinna ye march forward in order! March, march, Eskdale and Liddesdale, All ...
Cambridge, Spring 1937 (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
At last the air fragrant, the bird's bubbling whistle Succinct in the unknown unsettled trees: O little Charles, beside the ...
Politeness (Robert William Service Poems)
The English and the French were met Upon the field of future battle; The foes were formidably set And waiting ...
Warsaw (Robert William Service Poems)
I was in Warsaw when the first bomb fell; I was in Warsaw when the Terror came - Havoc and ...
Going Home (Robert William Service Poems)
I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty -- ain't I glad to 'ave the chance! I'm loaded up wiv fightin', and I've ...
To Any Dead Officer (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Well, how are things in Heaven? I wish you'd say, Because I'd like to know that you're all right. Tell ...
Lobster For Lunch (Robert William Service Poems)
His face was like a lobster red, His legs were white as mayonnaise: "I've had a jolly lunch," he said, ...
Travel (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
I should like to rise and go Where the golden apples grow;-- Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie, ...
Happiness (Stevie Smith Poems)
Happiness is silent, or speaks equivocally for friends, Grief is explicit and her song never ends, Happiness is like England, ...
The Fathers (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Snug at the club two fathers sat, Gross, goggle-eyed, and full of chat. One of them said: 'My eldest lad ...
To The Men Of England (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich ...
Prayers After World War (Carl Sandburg Poems)
WANDERING oversea dreamer, Hunting and hoarse, Oh daughter and mother, Oh daughter of ashes and mother of blood, Child of ...
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
The Ballad of the Calliope (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
By the far Samoan shore, Where the league-long rollers pour All the wash of the Pacific on the coral-guarded bay, ...
The Ballad of G. R. Dibbs (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
This is the story of G.R.D., Who went on a mission across the sea To borrow some money for you ...
On Kiley’s Run (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The roving breezes come and go On Kiley's Run, The sleepy river murmurs low, And far away one dimly sees ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
Arion to a Dolphin, On His Majesty’s passage into England. (Katherine Philips Poems)
Whom does this stately Navy bring? O! 'tis Great Britain's Glorious King, Convey him then, ye Winds and Seas, Swift ...