The Revenge of Centuries – A and B (Atom Yarjanian Poems)
From the tops of the iron ladder of hopes I announce my good news, From the valleys of ashes, corpses ...
Heroism Poems (1602 Poems)
Beowulf (Episode 27) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
CAME now to ocean the ever-courageoushardy henchmen, their harness bearing,woven war-sarks. The warden marked,trusty as ever, the earl's return.From the ...
Beowulf (Episode 16) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
AND the lord of earls, to each that camewith Beowulf over the briny ways,an heirloom there at the ale-bench gave,precious ...
Samson (Frederick George Scott Poems)
Plunged in night, I sit alone Eyeless on this dungeon stone, Naked, shaggy, and unkempt, Dreaming dreams no soul hath ...
Mount Vernon (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
October 5: 1860Before the hero's grave he stood,--A simple stone of rest, and bareTo all the blessing of the air,--And ...
Ramon (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(REFUGIO MINE, NORTHERN MEXICO) Drunk and senseless in his place, Prone and sprawling on his face,More like brute ...
War (Archibald Lampman Poems)
By the Nile, the sacred river,I can see the captive hordes,Strain beneath the lash and quiverAt the long papyrus cords,While ...
Shakespeare’ (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,— Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be ...
Heroes (Emma Lazarus Poems)
In rich Virginian woods,The scarlet creeper reddens over graves,Among the solemn trees enlooped with vines;Heroic spirits haunt the solitudes,—The noble ...
The Nation Builders (George Essex Evans Poems)
A handful of workers seeking the star of a strong intent — A handful of heroes scattered to conquer a ...
Beowulf (Episode 26) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Lo, we seafarers say our will,far-come men, that we fain would seekHygelac now. We here ...
Beowulf (Episode 38) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
I HAVE heard that swiftly the son of Weohstanat wish and word of his wounded king, —war-sick warrior, — woven ...
Beowulf (Episode 39) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
IT was heavy hap for that hero youngon his lord beloved to look and find himlying on earth with life ...
Nightfall In Hungary (Anne C Lynch Poems)
As when the sun in darkness sets, And night falls on the earth,Along the azure fields above The stars of ...
The American Eagle (Achsa Sprague Poems)
THE Eagle sits with drooping wing upon the Southern coast,With soiled and broken shield, the arrows from his talons lost,The, ...
On The Return Of Peace And Plenty (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
LO! what descending cherub, robed in light,With dazzling beams o'erwhelms the sight?Is it a Genius of th' etherial spheres?Or Angel ...
An Ode, On The Glorious Victory Over The French & Spanish Fleets (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
AND THE DEATH OF LORD NELSON. HIGH on a rock, whose craggy browO'erlooks the subject main below,Her throne Britannia rears;And ...
Beowulf (Episode 03) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdenewith the woe of these days; not wisest menassuaged his sorrow; too sore the ...
Beowulf (Episode 34) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
THE fall of his lord he was fain to requitein after days; and to Eadgils he provedfriend to the friendless, ...
A More Ancient Mariner (Bliss William Carman Poems)
The swarthy bee is a buccaneer, A burly velveted rover, Who loves the booming wind in his ear As he ...
Thompson Of Angels (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
It is the story of Thompson--of Thompson, the hero of Angels.Frequently drunk was Thompson, but always polite to the stranger;Light ...
On The Plaza (Bliss William Carman Poems)
One August day I sat beside A caf? window open wide To let the shower-fresh ened air Blow in across ...
Heroism (Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman Poems)
It takes great strength to train To modern service your ancestral brain; To lift the weight ...
Pantomimia (E L Blanchard Poems)
" Well ! "" Here we are ! "" You call to mind the clown who used to speak, His ...
Summer 1862 (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
SUMMER in all! deep summer in the pines,And summer in the music on the sands,And summer where the sea-flowers rise ...
Beowulf (Episode 19) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
THEN sank they to sleep. With sorrow one boughthis rest of the evening, — as ofttime had happenedwhen Grendel guarded ...
A Day’s Ride (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses rideAnd bold the mounted troopers who patrol the Sydney side;But few ...
The Seizure Of Cyprus Brig In Recherche Bay, Aug., 1829 (Francis McNamara Poems)
Come all you sons of Freedom, a chorus join with me,I'll sing a song of heroes, and glorious liberty.Some lads ...
Beowulf (Episode 14) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
HROTHGAR spake, — to the hall he went,stood by the steps, the steep roof saw,garnished with gold, and Grendel's hand: ...
To His Royal Highness The Duke Of York (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
FROM the recesses of this wild domain,Where artless truth and simple manners reign,The blushing Muse conveys the humble pleaOf modest ...