German Joe (Edward George Dyson Poems)
SKIRTING the swamp and the tangled scrub,Tramping and turning amidst the trees,Carrying nothing but blankets and grub,Careless of pleasure and ...
Envy & Jealousy Poems (868 Poems)
Lines On The Death Of Bismarck (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(Reprinted from "The Political Nursery," midsummer number, 1898)AT midnight Death dismissed the chancellor,But left the soul of Bismarck on his ...
The Patrician Peacocks And The Overweening Jay (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Once a flock of stately peacocks Promenaded on a green, There were twenty-two or three cocks, Each as proud as seventeen, And a glance, ...
Invitation to a Hay (Jean Garrigue Poems)
A settlement of loveIs what I'd risk if you would.A central fountain and a horse,A little native elegance,Some green-shuttered saffron ...
America, A Prophecy (William Blake Poems)
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc,When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode:His food she ...
The Fall of Hebe (James Hurdis Poems)
When Hebe the Charming was banish'd from Heav'n,Notwithstanding her beauty and birth,And her office by Jove to another was given,She ...
The Gad-Fly (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
(LA MOUCHE) In the midst of our laughter and singing, 'Mid the clink of our glasses so gay, What gad-fly is over us ...
Ode To Fanny (John Keats Poems)
1.Physician Nature! Let my spirit blood! O ease my heart of verse and let me rest;Throw me upon thy Tripod, till ...
Memory (Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Poems)
Only snakes shed their skin,So their souls can age and grow.We, alas, do not resemble snakes,We change souls, not bodies.Memory, ...
In The Firelight (John Hay Poems)
My dear wife sits beside the fire With folded hands and dreaming eyes,Watching the restless flames aspire, And wrapped in thralling memories.I ...
Olympia XI (Pindar Poems)
OLYMPIA Xl-FOR AGESIDAMUS OF THE WESTWIND LOCRIANS:WINNER IN THE BOYS BOXING MATCH Old Time, Old Shifting Trade-Time there is for the ...
The Crum Appointment (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
You, no doubt, have heard the story told of Charleston by the sea,How they persecute a Negro when a man ...
William And Mary (Janet Little Poems)
YOUNG William once the blithest of the swains,That grac'd the flow'ry bank, or trode the plains;Not rustic, but from affectation ...
To Miss Polly Peachum A Town Pastoral (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Farewell! ye Nymphs, who range the humble Plains;Henceforth a nobler Subject swells my Strains;Aid all ye Muses; all your Strength ...
Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed (John Donne Poems)
Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy,Until I labor, I in labor lie.The foe oft-times having the foe in ...
Finis (Jared Barhite Poems)
After our labor is finished, After the struggle is done, A restful surcease awaits us At the setting of life's sun. If when our ...
To The Union (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Giant aggregate of nations, Glorious Whole of glorious Parts,Unto endless generations Live United, hands and hearts!Be it storm or summer-weather, Peaceful calm, or ...
Litany to Satan: From Baudelaire (James Elroy Flecker Poems)
O grandest of the Angels, and most wise,O fallen God, fate-driven from the skies,Satan, at last take pity on our ...
The Enchanted Island. By Danby (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
AND there the island lay, the waves aroundHad never known a storm; for the north windWas charm'd from coming, and ...
Of The Death Of Sir Thomas Wyatt The Elder (Henry Howard Poems)
Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest; Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain, And virtue sank the deeper in his breast; Such ...
The Smell of Mussolini (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
When summer days have gayly passed away,And winter months have darkly come again,And when sweet spring does bring the laughing ...
Lines In Imitation Of The Style Of Beattie’s Minstrel (Margaret Holford Poems)
Yes, it is hard the steep ascent to climbWhence Fame's proud structure beams upon the eye,And well I wot, that ...
When Sam’l Sings (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Hyeah dat singin' in de medders Whaih de folks is mekin' hay? Wo'k is pretty middlin' heavy Fu' a man to be so ...
A Flower Garden At Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire. (William Wordsworth Poems)
TELL me, ye Zephyrs! that unfold,While fluttering o'er this gay Recess,Pinions that fanned the teeming mouldOf Eden's blissful wilderness,Did only ...
The Sword Dham (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
"How shall we honor the man who creates?"Asked the Bedouin chief, the poet Antar;-"Who unto the truth flings open our ...
A Description Of The Countreys Recreations (Sir Henry Wotton Poems)
Quivering fears, Heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, Untimely tears,Fly, fly to Courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained Sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
Prologue To The University Of Oxford, 1674. (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Poets, your subjects have their parts assign'dTo unbend, and to divert their sovereign's mind:When tired with following nature, you think ...
In Praise of Angling (Sir Henry Wotton Poems)
Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, untimely tears,Fly, fly to courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
To Abolitionist (John Pierpont Poems)
Servants of God most high,Who on his word rely,By ancient seers and holy prophets spoken—That all the chains that gallThe ...
Progne’s Dream (John Armstrong Poems)
Darkly expressive of some past Events that were soon to be revealed to her.Last night I dreamt,Whate'er it may forebode ...