The Battle of the Nile (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on the 18th of August in the year of 1798, That Nelson saw with inexpressible delight The City of ...
Food Poems (1269 Poems)
The Blind Girl (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Kind Christians, pray list to me, And I'll relate a sad story, Concerning a little blind girl, only nine years ...
The Sprig of Moss (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
There lived in Munich a poor, weakly youth, But for the exact date, I cannot vouch for the truth, And ...
The Wreck of the Columbine (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
Loneliness (John Matthew Poems)
I pause midway in the in the whirl, Of deadlines, things undone, And average the sadness and joys - There ...
William Goode (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
To all in the village I seemed, no doubt, To go this way and that way, aimlessly. But here by ...
Dire Cure (William Matthews Poems)
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...
Ode to the Goddess Ceres (Thomas Moore Poems)
Dear Goddess of Corn, whom the ancients we know, (Among other odd whims of those comical bodies,) Adorn'd with somniferous ...
The Fathers (Edwin Muir Poems)
Our fathers all were poor, Poorer our fathers' fathers; Beyond, we dare not look. We, the sons, keep store Of ...
A Few Rules for Beginners (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
Babies must not eat the coal And they must not make grimaces, Nor in party dresses roll And must never ...
The Wounded Bird (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
In the wide bed Under the freen embroidered quilt With flowers and leaves always in soft motion She is like ...
The Eve of Crecy (William Morris Poems)
Gold on her head, and gold on her feet, And gold where the hems of her kirtle meet, And a ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Psalm 85 (John Milton Poems)
Thy Land to favour graciously Thou hast not Lord been slack, Thou hast from hard Captivity Returned Jacob back. Th' ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Love Is Not All (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet ...
The Ballad Of The Harp-Weaver (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
"Son," said my mother, When I was knee-high, "you've need of clothes to cover you, and not a rag have ...
Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
III OH, THINK not I am faithful to a vow! Faithless am I save to love's self alone. Were you ...
The Passing Strange (John Masefield Poems)
Out of the earth to rest or range Perpetual in perpetual change, The unknown passing through the strange. Water and ...
The Unknown (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown Who lies here with no stone to mark the place. ...
Harry Wilmans (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was just turned twenty-one, And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House. "The honor ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Larry Levis (Larry Levis Poems)
My poem would eat nothing. I tried giving it water but it said no, worrying me. Day after day, I ...
The Widening Spell Of Leaves (Larry Levis Poems)
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
The Last Judgment (Amy Levy Poems)
With beating heart and lagging feet, Lord, I approach the Judgment-seat. All bring hither the fruits of toil, Measures of ...