Preom (Giovanni Boccaccio Poems)
Beginneth here the book called Decameron, otherwise Prince Galeotto, wherein are contained one hundred novels told in ten days by ...
Fate & Destiny Poems (4950 Poems)
The Vanities Of Life (John Clare Poems)
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.--_Solomon_What are life's joys and gains? What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such pains To ...
The Dying Girl (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
THROW open yonder window, sister dear,For all seems gloomy and oppressive here;I feel, alas! that I am dying now,But the ...
Delta (Margaret Walker Poems)
II am a child of the valley.Mud and muck and misery of lowlandsare on thin tracks of my feet.Damp draughts ...
Fragments (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Saw'st thou that light? exclaim'd the youth, and paused:Through yon dark firs it glanced, and on the streamThat skirts the ...
The Disappointment (Aphra Behn Poems)
1.One Day the Amarous Lisander,By an impatient Passion sway'd,Surpris'd fair Cloris, that lov'd Maid,Who cou'd defend her self no longer ...
The Dance (Harold Hart Crane Poems)
The swift red flesh, a winter king-Who squired the glacier woman down the sky?She ran the neighing canyons all the ...
Avenging The Maine (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
Sing, O Muse! the avenging of the Maine,The direful woes, the fate of Spain.A heinous deed t' our ship they ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book III – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
My Mother-Land (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MY Mother-land! thou wert the first to flingThy virgin flag of freedom to the breeze,The first to front along thy ...
Disappointment, The (Aphra Behn Poems)
1.One Day the Amarous Lisander,By an impatient Passion sway'd,Surpris'd fair Cloris, that lov'd Maid,Who cou'd defend her self no longer ...
Scenes Of Youth, Or The Days Of Other Years,- 1809.- In Two Parts. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
PART I.-Remembrance.THOSE days of youth I call to mind,Like dream by night away are fled,Or rose that's pluck'd, which soon ...
A Drunken A.B. (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
One cold wet winter eveningI was hurrying to my home,I passed a drunkard lying in the mire;The sleet was falling ...
Sonnet Cycle For Lady Magdalen (John Donne Poems)
Her of your name, whose fair inheritanceBethina was, and jointure Magdalo:An active faith so highly did advance,That she once knew, ...
Quatrains (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
S. H.With beams December planets dartHis cold eye truth and conduct scanned,July was in his sunny heart,October in his liberal ...
Subh-I-Kazib (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
I.SEE where the man wakes late from his dreaming,Late in the night from the sleep that has been;See where regret ...
Book III – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
Years After the War In Australia (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
Custer’s Last Charge (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
On through the mist of the morning,On through the midday glare;A hard, rough ride by the Rosebud's side,Cutting swaths through ...
A Dedication (Robert Burns Poems)
Expect na, sir, in this narration,A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication,To roose you up, an' ca' you guid,An' sprung o' great an' ...
Elegy XI: The Bracelet (John Donne Poems)
NOT that in colour it was like thy hair,For armlets of that thou mayst let me wear ;Nor that thy ...
The Daughter (Matilda Betham Poems)
"Come, mournful lute! dear echo of my woe! No stranger's tread in this lone spot I fear, Sweeter thy notes in such ...
Two Stanzas (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
There was once a town, the inhabitants of which were so passionately fondof poetry,that if some weeks passed by without ...
The Phantom Bride (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
The worn bird of Freedom had furled o'er our land The shattered wings, pierced by the despot's rude hand, And stout hearts ...
Happy Birthday Tupac Shakur (Old Poetry Poems)
It is hard to get a balanced view of Tupac Amaru Shakur (or Lesane Parish Crooks as he was known as a ...
An Eclogue (Thomas Parnell Poems)
Now early shepheards ore ye meadow pass,And print long foot-steps in the glittering grass;The Cows unfeeding near the cottage stand,By ...
Lines Written in August (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
The day of tumult, strife, defeat, was o'er;Worn out with toil, and noise, and scorn, and spleen,I slumbered, and in ...
Loch Uisk, Isle Of Mull (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Yon vale among the mountains, So sheltered from the sea,That lake which lies so lonely, Shall tell their tale to thee.Here stood ...
`For’ard’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like ...
Epilogue To Schiller’s “Song Of The Bell” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...