Answers In A Game Of Questions (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE LADY.IN the small and great world too,What most charms a woman's heart?It is doubtless what is new,For its blossoms ...
Fool Poems (2189 Poems)
The Minority: 1917 (May O Rourke Poems)
She curls her darkened lashes; manicuresHer scented hands; rubs cream where by and byThe tell-tale lines will gather. - She is ...
Thine Own Song (Patience Worth Poems)
When I would sing, thou hast struck me dumb.When I would make a glorious noise,My lute respondeth not.Oh, e'en the ...
The Gold-Seekers (Hamlin Garland Poems)
I SAW these dreamers of dreams go by,I trod in their footsteps a space;Each marched with his eyes on the ...
The Coming (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
I GATHERED flowers the summer long;I dozed the days on sunny leas,And wove my fancies into song,Or dreamed in aimless ...
A Voice from the Cloister (extract) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
"Enough, sad Muse, enough thy downward flight Has cleft with wearied wing the shades of night: Be drest in smiles, forget the ...
Sir Gawaine And The Green Knight (Yvor Winters Poems)
Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,Green as a bough of yew the beard;He bent his head, and so I smote;Then for ...
Beauergard’s Appeal (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YEA! since the need is bitter,Take down those sacred bells,Whose music speaks of hallowed joys,And passionate farewells!But ere ye fall ...
Another New Ballad (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Macheath having bold Comrades in Sholes,And most of them being poor easy Fools;I'd have 'em take Care, he don't make ...
To-Morrow (Henry Lawson Poems)
When you're suffering hard for your sins, old man, When you wake to trouble and sleep ill-Oh, this is the clack ...
The Aristocrat (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stayAt his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).They ...
The Old Witch in the Copse (Barry Cornwall Poems)
I am a Witch, and a kind old Witch,There's many a one knows that--Alone I live in my little dark ...
The War Songs of the Saracens (James Elroy Flecker Poems)
We are they who come faster than fate:We are they who ride early or late:We storm at your ivory gate:Pale ...
To The Moon (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
Bless thy bright face! though often blessed beforeBy raving maniac and by pensive fool;One would say something more- but who ...
The Great Tribunal (John Newton Poems)
John in vision saw the dayWhen the Judge will hasten down;Heav'n and earth shall flee awayFrom the terror of his ...
The Resting-Place (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Psalm cxvi. 7.CALL it not liberty this ceaseless ranging,The universe a prison were for thee;Call it not happiness this reckless ...
The Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
I am not ambitious at all: I am not a poet, I know (Though I do love to see a mere scrawl To ...
The Manly Heart (George Wither Poems)
Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or my cheeks make pale with care'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer ...
The Gardener XLVI: You Left Me (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
You left me and went on your way. I thought I should mourn for youand set your solitary image in myheart ...
Do Your Best And Leave The Rest (John Hartley Poems)
As through life you journey onward Many a hill you'll have to climb;Many a rough and dang'rous pathway, You'll encounter time and ...
Ode III: To The Cuckow (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.O rustic herald of the spring,At length in yonder woody valeFast by the brook I hear thee sing;And, studious of ...
To Mark Twain (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IAT A BIRTHDAY FEASTWith memories old and wishes newWe crown our cups again,And here's to you, and here's to youWith ...
The Grand Match (Moira O Neill Poems)
DENNIS was hearty when Dennis was young,High was his step in the jig that he sprung,He had the looks an' ...
The Ancient Pharisee (Patience Worth Poems)
What will the new day findThat comes some ages hence?Undecipherable scripts!That were the scribing of thy hand;Wisdoms that are rusted ...
XXVIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
The world's affairs have all become turned upside down:All those ways are not now, as they used to be seen ...
Liberty (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
When night and silence deepHold all the world in sleep,As tho' Death claimed the Hour,By some strange witcheryAppears her form ...
The Foolish Virgins (John Newton Poems)
When descending from the skyThe Bridegroom shall appear;And the solemn midnight cry,Shall call professors near:How the sound our hearts will ...
“He Said, Don’t Sleep” (Rabbi Adonim Halevi Poems)
He said, "Don't sleep. Drink old winewith myrrh and lilies, henna and aloes,in an orchard of pomegranates, palm, and vinesfull ...
Address To The Tooth-Ache (Robert Burns Poems)
My curse upon your venom'd stang,That shoots my tortur'd gums alang;And thro' my lugs gies mony a twang,Wi' gnawing vengeance;Tearing ...
Human Life (Matthew Arnold Poems)
What mortal, when he saw,Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend,Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly:"I have kept uninfringed my ...