The Ballad Of God-Makers (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
A bird flew out at the break of day From the nest where it had curled,And ere the eve the bird ...
Hair Poems (3954 Poems)
The Grenwich Pensioners (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHEN ev'ning listen'd to the dipping oar,Forgetting the loud city's ceaseless roar,By the green banks, where Thames, with conscious pride,Reflects ...
The Song of Arda: (From “Annatanam”.) (Henry Kendall Poems)
LOW as a lute, my love, beneath the callOf storm, I hear a melancholy wind;The memorably mournful wind of yoreWhich ...
Night Phases of Drunkenness (Janet Hamilton Poems)
PHASE IThe midnight hour hath chimed, The night is wild and cold;I see a trembling hand Yon cottage door unfold.A pale and ...
To Jack (Henry Lawson Poems)
SO, I've battled it through on my own, Jack, I have done with all dreaming and doubt.Though "stoney" to-night and alone, ...
The Persevering Tortoise And The Pretentious Hare (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Once a turtle, finding plenty In seclusion to bewitch, Lived a dolce far niente Kind of life within a ditch; Rivers had no charm ...
Retrospect (Nora Pembroke Poems)
I sit by the fire in the gloaming, In the depths of my easy chair,And I ponder, as old men ponder, Over ...
XXIV. Calypso (Giovanni Pascoli Poems)
And the blue sea loved him, swept himfar out for nine days and nights,swept him to a distant island,to the ...
To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
FOR HIS "JUBILAEUM" AT BERLIN, NOVEMBER 5, 1868THOU who hast taught the teachers of mankindHow from the least of things ...
Urara (Henry Kendall Poems)
Euroka, go over the tops of the hill,For the ~Death-clouds~ have passed us to-day,And we'll cry in the dark for ...
The Evening Before My Brother’s Fifty-Third Birthday (Jared Barhite Poems)
Dear Brother, how the time speeds on And leaves its trace upon our forms; The days of sunny youth are gone And age ...
In The Tree House At Night (James Dickey Poems)
And now the green household is dark.The half-moon completely is shiningOn the earth-lighted tops of the trees.To be dead, a ...
Peter Prime’s Principles (John Hartley Poems)
"Sup up thi gill, owd Peter Prime, Tha'st have a pint wi' me;It's worth a bob at onny time To have a ...
The True Heroes : Or, The Noble Army Of Martyrs (Hannah More Poems)
You who love a tale of glory,Listen to the song I sing:Heroes of the Christian storyAre the heroes I shall ...
The Waterfall (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE SONG of the water Doomed ever to roam,A beautiful exile, Afar from its home.The cliffs on the mountain, The grand and the ...
Lumination For Victories In Mexico (Grace Greenwood Poems)
LIGHT Up thy homes, Columbia,For those chivalric menWho bear to scenes of warlike strifeThy conquering arms again,Where glorious victories, flash ...
Romance (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Thus have I pictured her:—In Arden oldA white-browed maiden with a falcon eye,Rose-flushed of face, with locks of wind-blown gold,Teaching ...
Sir Thomas Lawrence (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
DIVINEST art, the stars aboveWere fated on thy birth to shine;Oh, born of beauty and of love,What early poetry was ...
The First Grey Hair (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
NO, let it stay. It speaks but truth:My Autumn's day is dawning.The dream is past; sweet dream of youth.Hair, I ...
A Farm House by the River (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I know a little country place Where still my heart doth linger,And o'er its fields is every grace Lined out by memory's ...
Morgan le Fay (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In dim samite was she bedight, And on her hair a hoop of gold,Like fox-fire in the tawn moonlight, Was glimmering cold.With ...
Myvanwy (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Oft hast thou heard it, that old true saying,'Tis like and unlike makes the happiest music.Then, gravely smiling, scorn me ...
Will (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YOUR face, my boy, when six months old,We propped you laughing in a chair,And the sun-artist caught the goldWhich rippled ...
The White Witch (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
O, brothers mine, take care! Take care!The great white witch rides out to-night,Trust not your prowess nor your strength;Your only ...
A Christ-child Day in Australia (Ethel Turner Poems)
A COPPER concave of a skyHangs high above my head.Vague thunder sullenly goes byWith dragging, muffled tread.The hot air faints ...
First Love (Nora Pembroke Poems)
We met--he was a stranger, His foot was free to roam;I was a simple maiden, Who had never left my home.He was ...
Camped By The Creek (Henry Kendall Poems)
"All day a strong sun has been drinkingThe ponds in the Wattletree Glen;And now as they're puddles, I'm thinkingWe were ...
The Fly (Karl Shapiro Poems)
O hideous little bat, the size of snot,With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,To populate the stinking cat you walkThe promontory ...
Adventurers (Lesbia Harford Poems)
This morning I got up before the sunHad seized the hill,And scrambled heart-hot, noisy, past each oneIn sleep laid still.There ...
The Future Of Hands (Larry Levis Poems)
All winterThe trees held up their silent hivesAs if they mattered.But on one main street of bars and lights,I watched ...