The Beautiful Stranger (John Clare Poems)
I cannot know what country owns thee now,With France's forest lilies on thy brow.When England knew thee thou wert passing ...
English Poems (766 Poems)
This Dear, Dear Land (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
I KNOW not, in this dark and fateful hour,What England is to others, but to meShe is a noble heritage, ...
The Tower and the Falcon (Hilda Conkling Poems)
There was a tower, once,In a London street.It was the highest, widest, thickest tower,The proudest, roundest, finest towerOf all towers.English ...
The Herbaceous Border (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
WHAT widely sundered regions may we traceIn this delightful border! Here we seeAnchusas of Italian pedigree;Here the Cheiranthus of Siberian ...
Sonnet To Spenser (John Keats Poems)
Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine,A forester deep in thy midmost trees,Did last eve ask my promise to refineSome English ...
Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace (Matthew Prior Poems)
Dictate, O mighty judge, what thou hast seenOf cities and of courts, of books and men,And deign to let thy ...
Hildebrand, Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason. (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
"Oh murder! What was that, Papa!""My child, It was a Motor-Car,A most Ingenious Toy!Designed to Captivate and CharmMuch rather than ...
How Did You Meet Your Wife? (Richard Jones Poems)
Swimming the English Channel,struggling to make it to Calais,I swam into Laura halfway across.My body oiled for warmth,black rubber cap ...
Arrival In The Land Of Freedom (Harriet Beecher Stowe Poems)
Look on the travellers kneeling,In thankful gladness, here,As the boat that brought them o'er the lake,Goes steaming from the pier.'Tis ...
In A Copy Of Omar Khayyam (James Russell Lowell Poems)
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;The diver Omar plucked them from ...
Mist on Meadows (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Mist lies heavy on English meadowsAs ever in Ypres, but the friendlinessHere is greater in full field and hedge shadow.And ...
The Roast Beef Of Old England (Henry Fielding Poems)
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food, It ennobled our hearts, and enriched our blood; Our soldiers were brave, and our ...
A La Chabot (Richard Lovelace Poems)
A LA CHABOT.Object adorable et charmant!Mes souspirs et mes pleurs tesmoignent mon torment;Mais mon respect m'empeche de parler.Ah! que peine ...
Scottish Pride (Joseph Corrie Poems)
It's fine when ye stand in a queueat the door o' the 'Dole'on a snawy day,To ken that ye leive ...
Man Overboard (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
YOUNG, the naked stoker who wentMad with the fires and leapt to the sea,Boyhood still in the voice that sentOne ...
To-Day (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
Voice, with what emulous fire thou singest free hearts of old fashion,English scorners of Spain, sweeping the blue sea-way,Sing me ...
Hyddgen (R S Thomas Poems)
The place, Hyddgen;The time, the fifthCentury since Glyn DwrWas here with his men.He beat the English.Does it matter nowIn the ...
From Germany (Mary Booth Poems)
"LUSITANIA," 7TH MAY 1915.REJOICE! Rejoice! the deed is done!The Innocents are dead.Hell's deepest teachings are outdone!Justice and Mercy fled.Rejoice! for ...
Immortals (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
I: 'Whose Name Was Writ In Water'Too high he soared above his multitude-Singer of Youth immortal and of Art-Today whose ...
“The Greeks planned for war” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
The Greeks planned for warOn the delightful island of Salamis.From the harbor of Athens, you could see itSeized by the ...
Breffne Caoinc (Padraic Colum Poems)
NOT as a woman of the English weeping over a lord of theEnglishDo I weep-A cry that scarcely stirs the ...
James Russell Lowell (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
From purest wells of English undefiledNone deeper drank than he, the New World's child,Who in the language of their farm-fields ...
Instead of Sitting Wrapped up in Flannel (Thomas Love Peacock Poems)
Instead of sitting wrapped up in flannelWith rheumatism in every joint,I wish I was in the English Channel,Just going 'round ...
Our Native Tongue (Kristjan Niels Julius Jonsson Poems)
Though our fore-fathers' language us dowersWith lyre-tones, singing-birds' calls,And the sounds that abide in fell-bowers,'And rhythms of seas and of ...
“I think it’s hard to write poetry” (Halina Poswiatowska Poems)
I think it's hard to write poetrylook how often it doesn't work for thosewho should have succeededbut I also think ...
Couplet (Meer Taqi Meer Poems)
Phirtay hay'N Meer Khwar Koi PooChta Nahi'NIs Aashqee may'N Izat-e-Sadat Bhi Gayi..English TranslationO! That people like Meer are wondering helplessly ...
Epigram VII – A Tribute To The Memory Of Richard Porson (John Collings Squire Poems)
MEN of sound English stockConscription must shock.Men of every descriptionDetest this conscription,Not one in five score,But ninety-five more,Almost all except ...
The Prophecy Of Famine (Charles Churchill Poems)
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ. Nos patriam fugimus.--VIRGIL.When Cupid first instructs his darts to flyFrom the sly ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto II (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
A Voice From The Factories (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...