Black Woman (Leopold Sedhar Senghor Poems)
Naked woman, black womanClothed with your colour which is life,with your form which is beauty!In your shadow I have grown ...
Envy & Jealousy Poems (868 Poems)
My Sins Have Taken Such a Hold on Me (John Samuel Bewley Monsell Poems)
My sins have taken such a hold on me,I am not able to look up to Thee;Lord, I repent; accept ...
A Summer Mood (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AH, me! for evermore, for evermoreThese human hearts of ours must yearn and sigh,While down the dells and up the ...
The United Fruit Co. (Pablo Neruda Poems)
When the trumpet sounded, it wasall prepared on the earth,the Jehovah parcelled out the earthto Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda,Ford Motors, ...
For The Album of Miss Mary G. M– (John Pierpont Poems)
Mary, never on these pagesLet there be a single line,Be it beau's, or bard's, or sage's,That shall aught unholy speak,Or ...
The Water Ousel (Mary Webb Poems)
Where on the wrinkled stream the willows lean,And fling a very ecstasy of greenDown the dim crystal, and the chestnut ...
Lyric of Action (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
'Tis the part of a coward to broodO'er the past that is withered and dead:What though the heart's roses are ...
The Sailor’s Departure (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
SOFTLY did the curling billowWanton o'er the pebbly bay,While the sun's last beam departingMark'd the hour of sinking day:O'er the ...
Song. Hush, Hush! Tread Softly! (John Keats Poems)
1.Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush my dear!All the house is asleep, but we know very wellThat the jealous, the ...
If The World Went Right (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
Oh! oh! the delight of beholding delight!The thing that should be if the world went rightScope for all fitness and ...
Diamond Speaks (Mary Stuart Poems)
'Tis not because my strength outranks both flame and brand,Nor because my facets display a cunning hand,Nor because, set in ...
October 21, 1809. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
"There is a destiny in this strange world,"Which oft decrees an undeserved doom."Let schoolmen tell us why."HOME.ERE now I've wish'd ...
Canticle Of The Shining Ones (Giordano Bruno Poems)
A Tribute to English Women, from 'The Nolan' "Nothing I envy, Jove, from this thy sky," Spake Neptune thus, and raised his ...
In Tenebris (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
All the lights have been extinguishedIn my closely-curtained room,Nothing now can be distinguishedIn the all-pervading gloom;And through darkness, so alluring,I ...
A Carol [I] (Mildmay Fane Poems)
If nothing else, may not this season move,Or time become the true chronicle of love?And so allay the fury, stint ...
Pro Patria Mori (Gottfried August Burger Poems)
For virtue, freedom, human rights, to fall,Beseems the brave: it is a Saviour's death.Of heroes only the most pure of ...
Jealous (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Hyeah come Caesar Higgins, Don't he think he 's fine? Look at dem new riggin's Ain't he tryin' to shine? Got a standin' collar An' ...
‘Tis Daring Wins The Day (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
Are you cold, or are you lukewarm You may freely have your say;When we've time we'll read your musings, But 'tis daring ...
The Other Side Of A Mirror (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poems)
I sat before my glass one day,And conjured up a vision bare,Unlike the aspects glad and gay,That erst were found ...
Give Ear Unto The Gentle Lay (Paul Verlaine Poems)
Give ear unto the gentle layThat's only sad that it may please;It is discreet, and light it is:A whiff of ...
To A Lady Who Was Libell’d. (Mary Barber Poems)
When Cynthia, Regent of the Tides,Pale in meridian Pride presides;A Sov'reign Pow'r the Goddess claimsO'er Seas, and Sea--supplying Streams;The River ...
Untitled ( from The World We Laugh In) (Harry Graham Poems)
Though many men have made their markBy rising daily with the lark,'Tis not a plan I recommend ;The practice no ...
The Uninvited Guest (Marya Zaturenska Poems)
Through what doors will you enter, through what wallsWill your white sould resume its solitudes?I count the clockbeats in my ...
Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy (Donald Justice Poems)
<i>Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. </i>-- Sears, Roebuck CatalogueO my coy darling, stillYou wear for ...
After a Quarrel (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
WE have quarreled; ugly things have been said,Bitter things, in a tone controlled, well-bred,Temperate; we weighed our words, lest the ...
Verses I (Henry Kirke White Poems)
When pride and envy, and the scornOf wealth my heart with gall imbued,I thought how pleasant were the mornOf silence, ...
The Pack-Saddle (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A FAMOUS painter, jealous of his wife;Whose charms he valued more than fame or life,When going on a journey used ...
On A Bank As I Sate A Fishing: A Description Of The Spring (Sir Henry Wotton Poems)
And now all Nature seem'd in love,The lusty sap began to move;New juice did stir th'embracing Vines,And Birds had drawn ...
The Virtuous Man (George Wither Poems)
Thus fears the man whom virtue, beacon-like,Hath fix'd upon the hills of eminence;At him the tempests of mad envy strike,And ...
Comfort (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Now she need dread no more to growToo old for him, she need not knowThe bitterness when he who wasAll ...