A Notable Dinner (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,Who to lift a fallen people had a work of ...
Envy & Jealousy Poems (868 Poems)
The Jealous Husband (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A CERTAIN husband who, from jealous fear,With one eye slept while t'other watched his dear,Deprived his wife of every social ...
The Last Gift (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LEAVE thee, love! In vain hast thouThe God of life implored;My clinging soul is torn from thine,My faithful, my ...
Kangaroo Power (Henry Lawson Poems)
NOW, Yankee inventors can beat a retreat,And German professors may take a back seat, For their colours we're going to lower:They've ...
A Stained Lily (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
Some lilies grew by a brook-side, Tall and white, and cold,And lifted up to the sunshine Their great red hearts of gold.And ...
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move:Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still let me ...
Copernicus (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The mountain church of FrauenburgHath many a narrow bed,Where the oaken cross points upward,And peasants weep their dead;Stand we beside ...
The Red Squadrons (Hristo Smirnenski Poems)
Heralds of a happier day rousing wonder and dismay -Powerful squadrons rush in close array.In the morning sad and gray, ...
We Are Many (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,I cannot settle on a single one.They are lost to me ...
To Sylvia And Armeda (Janet Little Poems)
ARMEDA.WHY dost thou Sylvia pensive sit?Why hangs that cloud upon thy brow?Oft hast thou cheer'd us by thy wit,Why thus ...
On The Death Of Mr. Fox (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
THE FOLLOWING ILLIBERAL IMPROMPTU APPEARED IN A MORNING PAPER:'Our nation's foes lament on Fox's death,But bless the hour when PITT ...
The Federal City (Henry Lawson Poems)
OH! the folly, the waste, and the pity! Oh, the time that is flung behind!They are seeking a site for ...
Of the Death of Sir T.W. 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 ...
Fill The Goblet Again: A Song (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Fill the goblet again! for I never beforeFelt the glow which now gladdens my heart to its core;Let us drink!--who ...
The Altar Boy (John O’Brien Poems)
Now McEvoy was altar-boyAs long as I remember;He was, bedad, a crabbed lad,And sixty come December.Faith, no one dared to ...
The Tale Of Honour (Hristo Smirnenski Poems)
It was an honour I had notExpected, to be sure.The Devil asked me in and offeredMe his best liqueur.A candle ...
Young Kings and Old (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Young King fights in the trenches and the Old King fights in the rear-Because he is old and feeble, ...
War (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
I. The beast exultant spreads the nostril wide, Snuffing a sickly hate-enkindling scent; Proud of his rage, on sudden carnage bent, He leaps, and ...
In The South (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
There is a princess in the South About whose beauty rumors hum Like honey-bees about the mouth Of roses dewdrops falter from; And O ...
The Empaled Butterfly (Hannah Flagg Gould Poems)
"Ho!" said a butterfly, "here am I,Up in the air, who used to lieFlat on the ground, for the passers ...
A Stranger in the Church (John O Brien Poems)
'Twas Callagan who jerked the thumb-A mute, interrogating thumb- That set the people staringAt Casey's lot arriving late.They had in tow ...
To Bettie (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Give me thy heart, give me thy hand,Thy love, thy dower, thy goods, thy land;Give me o'er thee a free ...
I’m an Older Man Than You (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHEN you've managed with the tailor for a rig-out of a sortAnd you find the coat or trousers are an ...
Glance, The (Francis Beaumont Poems)
Cold Virtue guard me, or I shall endureFrom the next glance a double calentureOf fire and lust! Two flames, two ...
Elegy XIV: Julia (John Donne Poems)
Hark, news, O envy ; thou shalt hear descriedMy Julia ; who as yet was ne'er envied.To vomit gall in ...
The Scurrilous Scribe (Philip Morin Freneau Poems)
His soul extracted from the public sink,For discord born he splasht around his ink;In scandal foremost, as by scandal fed,He ...
The Ballad of The Jealous Sister (Maude E Shenk Poems)
Oh once an old womanLived by the seashoreTwo daughters fair had she.The younger one a lover had,So brave and bold ...
To Mrs. Frances–Arabella Kelly. (Mary Barber Poems)
To Day, as at my Glass I stood,To set my Head--cloaths, and my Hood;I saw my grizzled Locks with Dread,And ...
Since Shade Relents (Paul Verlaine Poems)
Since shade relents, since 'tis indeed the day, Since hope I long had deemed forever flown,Wings back to me that call ...
In A Modern City (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Dreary fog and drizzling sleet,And a lamp-lit track of slime;Phantoms dim in the misty street,Vanishing, streaked with grime;Overhead in a ...