The Book Of Creation (John Newton Poems)
The book of nature open lies,With much instruction stored;But till the Lord anoints our eyesWe cannot read a word.Philosophers have ...
Fool Poems (2189 Poems)
Passing Events (John Hartley Poems)
Passing events,--tell, what are they I pray?Are they some novelty?--Nay, nay, nay!Ever since the world its course began,Since the breath ...
No Use In Signs (Second Version) (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
Der's no use bein' scared o' cungers,An' lettin' black cats turn you back,You jus' go on about your business,And let ...
Listening (Patience Worth Poems)
I shall lend mine ear, Lord, listening.No confusion of the day shall appall me,Neither the awesome expanse of night.I shall ...
Wandering Through Love’s Strange Bazaar (Verse XLII) (Jose Marti Poems)
Wandering through love's strange bazaar,Held by the seaside, not far,A sad pearl fair as a starBy great luck fell to ...
The Twins (Henry Sambrooke Leigh Poems)
In form and feature, face and limb,I grew so like my brother,That folks got taking me for him,And each for ...
By The Way (Patrick MacGill Poems)
These be the little verses, rough and uncultured, which I've written in hut and model, deep in the dirty ditch, ...
Spring In Germany (Kazys Binkis Poems)
With paws stuck upward, lies Berlin.That silly idiot - the moonBridled with cables, broken in,Smiles, goon!The close-cropped trees along the ...
To Philaster (Sarah Fyge Poems)
Go perjur'd Youth and court what Nymph you please,Your Passion now is but a dull disease;With worn-out Sighs deceive some ...
“I’m like all lovers, wanting love to be” (Lesbia Harford Poems)
I'm like all lovers, wanting love to beA very mighty thing for you and me.In certain moods your love should ...
A Simile (William Shenstone Poems)
What village but has sometimes seenThe clumsy shape, the frightful mien,Tremendous claws, and shagged hairOf that grim brute yclept a ...
Ragnarok (Kenneth Allott Poems)
Our Trojan world is polarised to mourn;To dream and find a black spot on the sun,And wake to love and ...
Songs Set To Music: 14. Set By Mr. Smith (Matthew Prior Poems)
Once I was unconfined and free,Would I had been so still!Enjoying sweetest liberty,And roving at my will.But now, not master ...
Valediction (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
I ONCE was fond of fools,And bid them come each day;Then each one brought his toolsThe carpenter to play;The roof ...
On Simony (Joseph Hall Poems)
Saw'st thou ever Siquis patcht on Pauls Church door To seek some vacant vicarage before? Who wants a churchman that can service ...
Differences (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
My neighbor lives on the hill, And I in the valley dwell, My neighbor must look down on me, Must I look up?--ah, ...
“No Use In Signs” (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
'Tain't no usen being skar'd of congers,E'n lettin black cats turn ur back;Jest go'n er bout yuh bisnes,An let the ...
To Myself (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
AFTER all, you are my rather tedious hero;It is impossible (damn it!) to avoidLooking at you through keyholes.But come! At ...
A Bard’s Epitaph (Robert Burns Poems)
Is there a whim-inspired fool,Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,Let him ...
Stanzas To Miss Wylie (John Keats Poems)
1.O come Georgiana! the rose is full blown,The riches of Flora are lavishly strown,The air is all softness, and crystal ...
Nobody Feels Or Cares! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
The world is dying, its heart is cold, And well-nigh frozen dead,--A sorrowful thing it is to grow old, With all the ...
Compensation (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
O RICH young lord, thou ridest byWith looks of high disdain;It chafes me not thy title high,Thy blood of oldest ...
A Hero (Katharine Tynan Poems)
He was so foolish, the poor lad, He made superior people smileWho knew not of the wings he had Budding and growing ...
The Worldling (John Newton Poems)
My barns are full, my stores increase,And now, for many years,Soul, eat and drink, and take thine ease,Secure from wants ...
Hymns to the Night : 2 (Novalis Poems)
Must the morning always return? Will the despotism of the earthly never cease? Unholy activity consumes the angel-visit of the ...
The Fight That Failed (R S Ward Poems)
He lay in the darkness and waited.And longed for the light,And wondered which Heaven had fated,Should carry his fight.So he ...
Going to School (Karl Shapiro Poems)
What shall I teach in the vivid afternoonWith the sun warming the blackboard and a slipOf cloud catching my eye?Only ...
Laughter (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold the cup. 'Tis a bitter quaff.Behold the grey monk-robe of the day.Behold men who let their eyes see naughtBut ...
A Savage (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
DIXON, a Choctaw, twenty years of age,Had killed a miner in a Leadville brawl;Tried and condemned, the rough-beards curb their ...
Fountain’s Abbey (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
NEVER more, when the day is o'er,Will the lonely vespers sound;No bells are ringing-no monks are singing,When the moonlight falls ...