The Fun Of Forgiving (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Sometimes I'm almost glad to hear when I get home that they've been bad;And though I try to look severe, ...
Forgiveness Poems (1956 Poems)
To A Very Imprudent Young Woman (Christian Milne Poems)
WHY all this haste, unhappy Maid,To reach the goal of shame?Why rush so fast from fault to fault,Nor think yourself ...
City Roofs (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Roof-tops, roof-tops, what do you cover? Sad folk, bad folk, and many a glowing lover; Wise people, simple people, children ...
A Cavalry Soldier (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
With loud talking and laughter, And a long, careless stride,He paces the crowded pathway, With head high in pride.And mean ...
War Risks (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
"Let go aft" . . . and out she slides, Pitching when she meets the tides . . . She ...
The Breakage (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
In the grey and dusty morn, Dreaming Jane arose, And from silent room to room With her duster goes. Slipping ...
Anna Who Was Mad (Anne Sexton Poems)
Anna who was mad,I have a knife in my armpit.When I stand on tiptoe I tap out messages.Am I some ...
The Beacon (Anonymous British Poems)
The scene was more beautiful far, to my eye,Than if day in its pride had array'd it;The land-breeze blew mild, ...
God Of The Open (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
God of the open, though I am so simpleOut in the wind I can travel with you,noons when the hot ...
Hymn For Victory (A P Herbert Poems)
O Lord, Who saw us deep in shameFrom too much love of peace,Bless now our arms and honoured name,And let ...
For A Naughty Little Girl (Ann Taylor Poems)
My sweet little girl should be cheerful and mild She must not be fretful and cry! Oh! why is this ...
Ecce Homo (Charles Harpur Poems)
A man of sorrows and with grief acquainted, He bowed His beauteous head to the rude hands ...
Harvest (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
LORD of the year! whose word commandsThe seasons o'er what favour'd landsTo shed profuse their stores;Or where to turn the ...
Chorus Sacerdotum : from Mustapha (Fulke Greville Poems)
O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, ...
An Ode To Genius (Emma Lyon Poems)
ALL glorious power! of keen celestial eye, Genius! tumultuous ruler of the breast,By nature wing'd with wond'rous speed to ...
The Open Door (Alfred Noyes Poems)
O Mystery of life,That, after all our strife, Defeats, mistakes,Just as, at last, we seeThe road to victory, The tired ...
Welcome To Peace (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
'TIS done! the Despot's reign is o'er,The kingdoms freed, shall groan no moreBeneath his impious sway;Who, rais'd by the Almighty's ...
If I may have it, when it’s dead (Emily Dickinson Poems)
577If I may have it, when it's dead,I'll be contented-so-If just as soon as Breath is outIt shall belong to ...
Jesus (Eberhard Arnold Poems)
You are the impulse of first love,the root of each good deed.Your spirit wakes and strengthens us,us counsels in our ...
Mustapha (Fulke Greville Poems)
Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,Born under one law, to another bound;Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,Created sick, commanded to be ...
Song of the Belgians (Emile Cammaerts Poems)
Reck not that your wounds are bleeding, Reck not that your voice is weak:Louder than the roar of cannon, ...
Prayer (Anonymous British Poems)
Go when the morning shineth,Go when the moon is bright,Go when the day declineth,Go in the hush of night.Go with ...
Extreme Unction (Ernest Christopher Dowson Poems)
Upon the eyes, the lips, the feet, On all the passages of sense, The atoning oil is spread with ...
Jerusalem The Golden (Bernard of Cluny Poems)
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest,beneath thy contemplationsink heart and voice oppressed:I know not, oh, I know not,what ...
We Hail Thee Now, O Jesus (Frederick George Scott Poems)
We hail thee now, O Jesus,thy presence here we own,though sight and touch have failed us,and faith perceives alone;thy love ...
Before The Altars (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
He answered: Though prayers dark 'midsmothering cloudsBeseech my mercy, hearken how I strainAgainst you know not what, whose dreaded shroudsBenumb ...
If You Should Pass (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
If by my tomb some day you careless pass, A moment grieved by coming on my name, Ah! kneel awhile ...
April (Edward Thomas Poems)
The sweetest thing, I thoughtAt one time, between earth and heavenWas the first smileWhen mist has been forgivenAnd the sun ...
The People’s Anthem (Ebenezer Elliott Poems)
When wilt Thou save the people?O God of mercy! when? Not kings and lords, but nations!Not thrones and crowns, but ...
When Heaving On The Stormy Waters (Fyodor Sologub Poems)
"When, heaving on the stormy waters,I felt my ship beneath to sink,I prayed, ""Oh, Father Satan, save me,Forgive me at ...