Robert Buchanan (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
'T WAS the body of Judas IscariotLay in the Field of Blood;'T was the soul of Judas IscariotBeside the body ...
Faces Poems (9327 Poems)
A Nation’s Test (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
A Portrait (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES ,--whilst my sight is yet allow'd to restOn those dear features, (which it calms my breastTo look upon, and, ...
Cathloda – Duan II (James Macpherson Poems)
Fingal, returning with day, devolves the command on Duth-maruno, who engages the enemy, and drives them over the stream of ...
Letter From The Town Mouse To The Country Mouse (Horace Smith Poems)
I.Oh for a field, my friend; oh for a field! I ask no more Than one plain field, shut in by hedgerows ...
Liberty – Equality – Fraternity! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
LIBERTY Liberty! — Who shall be free?—The winds of the air, and the waves of the sea,And the beast in his ...
Contrasted Songs: Song For The Night Of Christ’s Resurrection (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(A Humble Imitation)"And birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave."It is the noon of night,And the world's Great ...
The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Up and down the village streetsStrange are the forms my fancy meets,For the thoughts and things of to-day are hid,And ...
The Atlas (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
I. The King of CuckoozTHE King of Cuckooz ContreyHangs peaked above ArgierWith Janzaries and MarabuttsTo bid a sailor fear-With lantern-eyed ...
The Last Of The Narwhale (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THE STORY OF AN ARCTIC NIP.AY, ay, I'll tell you, shipmates,If you care to hear the tale,How myself and the ...
Songs Of Deliverance (Orrick Johns Poems)
I-The Song Of YouthThis is the song of youth,This is the cause of myself;I knew my father well and he ...
The Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array,A younger brother homeward bent his way,Not much improved, as frequently the caseWith ...
Bel Canto (Kenneth Koch Poems)
The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp,And salty light reveals the Mayan School.The Irish hope their names are ...
Lamentations of Jeremiah III: Hope of Relief through God’s Mercy (Jeremiah Bible Poems)
1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.2 He hath led me, and ...
The Buried Flower (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
In the silence of my chamber,When the night is still and deep,And the drowsy heave of oceanMutters in its charmed ...
Wesselenyi (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
A HUNGARIAN TALEWhen madly raged religious war O'er all the Magyar landAnd royal archer and hussar Met foemen hand to hand,A princess ...
A Dirge For Wellington (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
A voice of lamentation From the islands of the Sea!Alas, thou sorrowing Nation, Bereaved — alas for thee!The wail as of a ...
London Excursion (John Gould Fletcher Poems)
'BusGREAT walls of green,City that is afar.We gallop alongAlert and penetrating,Roads open about us,Housetops keep at a distance.Soft-curling tendrils,Swim backwards ...
Brahm (Joseph Furphy Poems)
A spectral film that came and went,In its elusive way gave ventIn some unreal words which meant;"I think therefore I ...
The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part IV (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I.It is the night: across the starless wasteOf silent heaven the solitary moonFlits like a frightened maid who flies in ...
Grant’s Dirge (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
IAh, who shall sound the hero's funeral march?And what shall be the music of his dirge?No single voice may chant ...
As It Begins With A Brush Stroke On A Snare Drum (Larry Levis Poems)
The plaza was so still in that moment two years ago thateverything was clear,As if it had been preserved beneath ...
Farmer Whipple–Bachelor (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
It's a mystery to see me--a man o' fifty-four,Who's lived a cross old bachelor fer thirty year' and more--A-lookin' glad ...
The Spiritual Canticle (St John of the Cross Poems)
ITHE BRIDEWhere have You hidden Yourself,And abandoned me in my groaning, O my Beloved?You have fled like the hart,Having wounded ...
The Jackaw of Rheims (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
The Metal Checks (Louise Driscoll Poems)
[The scene is a bare room, with two shaded windows at the back, and a fireplace between them with a ...
Trilogy Of Passion 02 Elegy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
A Romantic Scene (Rebekah Carmichael Poems)
Which happened in the year 1746.PHENES and HERO far retir'd,Without one wish to be admir'd,Liv'd in a lonely den;Of equal ...
Ajanta (Muriel Rukeyser Poems)
CAME in my full youth to the midnight cavenerves ringing; and this thing I did alone.Wanting my fulness and not ...
The Believer’s Principles : Chap. V. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Believer's Principles concerning Heaven and Earth.Sect. I.The Work and Contention of Heaven.In heav'nly choirs a question rose,That stirr'd up ...