Aristocrats: (Keith Douglas Poems)
The noble horse with courage in his eye,clean in the bone, looks up at a shellburst:away fly the images of ...
Heroism Poems (1602 Poems)
My Low And Humble Home (Nathaniel Hawthorne Poems)
I left my low and humble home,Far from my Father's fields to roam.My peaceful cot no more had charms,My only ...
Jackson. A Sonnet (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
Thank God for such a Hero!--Fearless hold His diamond character beneath the sun, And brighter scintillations, one by one, Come flashing from it. ...
For Freedom (Howard Tilse Poems)
Hark! the call to arms is sounding!Hark! the tramp of marching feet!What then is the use of stayingThough the breath ...
Written After Swimming From Sestos To Abydos (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
If, in the month of dark December, Leander, who was nightly wont(What maid will not the tale remember?) To cross thy stream, ...
A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses (Constantine P. Cavafy Poems)
The frivolous can call me frivolous.I've always been most punctilious aboutimportant things. And I insistthat no one knows better than ...
The Irishman’s Song (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
The stars may dissolve, and the fountain of lightMay sink into ne'er ending chaos and night,Our mansions must fall, and ...
Sidekicks (Ronald Koertge Poems)
They were never handsome and often camewith a hormone imbalance manifested by corpulence,a yodel of a voice or ears big ...
Song. Translated From The German (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Ah! grasp the dire dagger and couch the fell spear,If vengeance and death to thy bosom be dear,The dastard shall ...
Songs Of A Girl (Mary Carolyn Davies Poems)
IPerhaps,God, planting Eden,Dropped, by mistake, a seedIn Time's neighbor-plot,That grew to beThis hour?IIYou and I picked up Life and looked ...
Jeptha’s Daughter (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Since our Country, our God -- Oh, my Sire!Demand that thy Daughter expire;Since thy triumph was brought by thy vow--Strike ...
A Hero Of The Revolution. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Let not a tear be shed! Of grief give not a token,Although the silver thread And golden bowl be broken!A warrior lived--a ...
Washington (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Oh, hero of our younger race!Great builder of a temple new!Ruler, who sought no lordly place!Warrior who sheathed the sword ...
Westminster Abbey (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL IN ONE OF THE AISLES OFWESTMINSTER ABBEY, WHERE I HAD TAKEN SHELTERFROM THE EXCESSIVE BRIGHTNESS AND ...
Christmas 1916: Thoughts in a V.A.D. Hospital Kitchen (M. Winifred Wedgwood Poems)
There's no Xmas leave for us scullions,We've got to keep on with the grind;Just cooking for Britain's heroes,But, bless you! ...
Golden Verses (From Pythagoras) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
First, honour thou the immortal gods, as a law of thy being:Next, religiously keep thine oath, and reverence heroes:Pay thou ...
Emily Hardcastle, Spinster (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love,We shall bring no face of envy but a ...
The Pioneer (Henry Meade Bland Poems)
With a sign for the unknown land fevering his brain,With a pulse as strong as the engine-beat on the rail;With ...
The Foretelling Of Cathbad The Druid At Deirdre’s Birth (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
Let Deirdre be her name: harm will come through her. She will be fair,comely, bright-haired: heroes will fight for her, ...
The Confederate Flag (Henry Lynden Flash Poems)
Four stormy years we saw it gleam,A people's hope…and then refurled,Even while its glory was the theme Of half the world.A ...
Dream Song 70: Disengaged, bloody, Henry rose from the shell (John Berryman Poems)
Disengaged, bloody, Henry rose from the shellwhere in theior racing start his seat got wedgedunder his knifing knees,he did it ...
Sun, Sun (Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin Poems)
Sun, sun,divine Ra-Helios,you delightthe hearts of kings and heroes,sacred horses neigh to you,in Heliopolis they sing hymns to you;when you ...
How Shall I Die? (Patience Worth Poems)
How shall I die?Shall I lay me down upon a rosed couch-Sipping cool waters, and languorously die?Shall I do some ...
A Contrast (Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley Poems)
I by the lapping of my household fire,You in the trenches, starved and stiff for cold,You by fatigue in few ...
Richard Watson Gilder (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IN MEMORIAMSoul of a soldier in a poet's frame, Heart of a hero in a body frail; Thine was the courage clear ...
It Might Have Been (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
We will be what we could be. Do not say,'It might have been, had not this, or that, or this.'No ...
Vignette – XXII (Matilda Betham Poems)
TO THE HETMAN, PLATOFF. --------O ancient warrior! as we hail thee, And behold thy cordial smile,We hope that greetings ne'er may fail ...
Explanation Of An Antique Gem (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
A YOUNG fig-tree its form lifts highWithin a beauteous garden;And see, a goat is sitting by.As if he were its ...
Limb And Mind (John Stanier Waller Poems)
The disingenuousCharm of livingHas its advantagesProperly usingLips for smiling,Grace for posture,Limbs for loving,Inimitable gesture.The thinker enjoysA lonelier quality,Learning's shynessWith philosophy's ...
Mr. Toad (Kenneth Grahame Poems)
The world has held great Heroes,As history-books have showed;But never a name to go down to fameCompared with that of ...