Of The Nature Of Things: Book I – Part 02 – Substance Is Eternal (Lucretius Poems)
This terror, then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can ...
Generation Poems (273 Poems)
Wilfred Owen – 114 years and beyond (Old Poetry Poems)
18th March celebrates the birth of a fine poet and soldier Wilfred OwenMarch 18th celebrates the birthday of a man. ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book I – Part 05 – Character Of The Atoms (Lucretius Poems)
Bodies, again,Are partly primal germs of things, and partlyUnions deriving from the primal germs.And those which are the primal germs ...
Book I – Part 05 – Character Of The Atoms (Lucretius Poems)
Bodies, again,Are partly primal germs of things, and partlyUnions deriving from the primal germs.And those which are the primal germs ...
Proem to American Song (Paul Engle Poems)
BLOW, LONG TRADE WINDS of American speech,Over this land where we can rise, unfurlOur new and untried sails, and drive ...
A Nation’s Test (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XIV: Picture-Writ (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
In those days said Hiawatha,"Lo! how all things fade and perish!From the memory of the old menPass away the great ...
The Three Queens (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty,When Morning hung with rapture on her breast;When every sentient life paid ...
Presage To Victory (John Freeman Poems)
IThen first I knew, seeing that bent grey head,How England honours all her thousand dead.Then first I knew how faith ...
Vale` – Father Pat (John O Brien Poems)
Yes, that's the hardest hand at all upon my frosted head-That telegram that brought the news that Father Pat is ...
The Metamorphosi (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
Starlight Musings (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
THE gentle spirit of the twilight nowHas shut his rosy wings, and I have comeOut in the sad, sweet starlight, ...
Poem Of Poverty (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla Poems)
Poverty, brothers, is a mouthful that's hard to swallow,A bite that sticks in your throat and leaves you in sorrow,When ...
Poem Of Poverty (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla Poems)
Poverty, brothers, is a mouthful that's hard to swallow,A bite that sticks in your throat and leaves you in sorrow,When ...
Antony Villa (Henry Lawson Poems)
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
Child of Europe (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
1We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day.Who in May admire trees floweringAre better than those who perished.We, who ...
The Thorn (John Freeman Poems)
The days of these two years like busy antsHave gone, confused and happy and distressed, Rich, yet sad with aching wants, Crowded, ...
Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
Of Being Numerous (George Oppen Poems)
'Whether, as the intensity of seeing increases, one's distance from Them, the people, does not also increase'I know, of course ...
Calgary Station (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
DAZZLED by sun and drugged by space they wait,These homeless peoples, at our prairie gate;Dumb with the awe of those ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Weakenes (Ralph Knevet Poems)
(Oh Lord) how can I observe thy commands, Since I have neither heart, nor hands, I want both eares, and eyes: The facultyes, Of ...
Looking Downwards (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
O the sacred generations That have lived, and failed, and died!And for our sakesoursthe freed ones, Found their liberties denied!Oh, the helpless ...
Vignette – XXI (Matilda Betham Poems)
LINES._Written for a Young Gentleman to speak at the Audit at St. Saviour'sSchool, Southwark, after the Battle of Trafalgar_. --------While others, ...
The Feast Of The Gael (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
St. Patrick's DayI.WHAT a onion of hearts is the love of a motherWhen races of men in her name unite!For ...
The Branded Hand (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WELCOME home again, brave seaman! with thy thoughtful brow and gray,And the old heroic spirit of our earlier, better day;With ...
British Association, Notes Of The President’s Address (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in ...
For My People (Margaret Walker Poems)
For my people everywhere singing their slave songsrepeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their bluesand jubilees, praying their prayers ...
To ******** (John Beveridge Poems)
Dear Sir, methinks I see you smile,To find the muse does you beguile.Stealing upon you by a wile,And in a ...
Conscription Camp (Karl Shapiro Poems)
Your landscape sickens with a dry diseaseEven in May, Virginia, and your sweet pinesLike Frenchmen runted in a hundred warsAre ...
The Cities Of Old. (Harriet Annie Wilkins Poems)
Cities and men, and nations, have passed by,Like leaves upon an autumn's dreary sky;Like chaff upon the ocean billow proud,Like ...