Parson Turell’s Legacy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIRA MATHEMATICAL STORYFACTS respecting an old arm-chair.At Cambridge. Is kept in the College there.Seems but little ...
Horse Poems (1188 Poems)
King Volmer and Elsie (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
After the Danish of Christian WinterWhere, over heathen doom-rings and gray stones of the Horg,In its little Christian city stands ...
English Eclogues V – The Witch (Robert Southey Poems)
NATHANIEL.Father! here father! I have found a horse-shoe!Faith it was just in time, for t'other nightI laid two straws across ...
The Tombs Of The Kings (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Where the mummied Kings of Egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold,Couched for ages in their coffins, crowned with crowns ...
The Assimilation Of The Gypsies (Larry Levis Poems)
In the background, a few shacks & overturned cartsAnd a gray sky holding the singular pallor of Lent.And here the ...
A Fantasy of War (Henry Lawson Poems)
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
To Moliere (Nicholas Boileau Despreaux Poems)
Unequaled genius, whose warm fancy knows No rhyming labor, no poetic throes; To whom Apollo has unlocked his store; Whose coin is struck ...
The Deacon’s Masterpiece Or, The Wonderful (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years ...
Anhelli – Chapter 7 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
And the Shaman said : "Lo, now we shall show no more miracles,nor the power of God that is in ...
The Shepherds Calendar – April (John Clare Poems)
The infant april joins the springAnd views its watery skyeAs youngling linnet trys its wingAnd fears at first to flyeWith ...
Rover (Henry Kendall Poems)
NO classic warrior tempts my pen To fill with verse these pages-No lordly-hearted man of men My Muse's thought engages.Let others choose ...
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
From the first it had been like aBallad. It had the beat inevitable. It had the blood.A wildness cut up, ...
The Patient Countess. – extracted from Albion’s England (William Warner Poems)
Impatience chaungeth smoke to flame, but jealousie is hell;Some wives by patience have reduc'd ill husbands to live well:As did ...
The Christian And The Moor-A Legend Of Granada (Peter John Allan Poems)
Before Granada's fated walls the Christian legions stand,A numerous and a valiant—but why a sullen band?The politic, wise Ferdinand's injunctions they ...
From “January” (John Clare Poems)
Supper removed, the mother sits,And tells her tales by starts and fits.Not willing to lose time or toil,She knits or ...
The Kelpie: A Scottish Legend (J S Poems)
"Kelpie's a river demon or a god,"Thus say the lexicons; I'll not belie 'em,For though I mind not in the ...
The Ballad Of Downal Baun (Padraic Colum Poems)
The moon-cradle's rocking and rocking,Where a cloud and a cloud goes by:Silently rocking and rocking,The moon-cradle out in the sky.The ...
The Rebel Scot (John Cleveland Poems)
How, Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?Then Madam Nature wears black patches too!What, shall our nation be in bondage thusUnto ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 06 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
LXXIAurora bright her crystal gates unbarred,And bridegroom-like forth stept the glorious sun,When trumpets loud and clarions shrill were heard,And every ...
My Curate’s Motor Bike (John O Brien Poems)
Before the lad invested we had comfort here indeed;Our lives were as an open book, and he who ran might ...
Ode to Fancy (Joseph Warton Poems)
O parent of each lovely Muse,Thy spirit o'er my soul diffuse,O'er all my artless songs preside,My footsteps to thy temple ...
The Good Samaritan (Henry Lawson Poems)
He comes from out the ages dim- The good Samaritan;I somehow never pictured him A fat and jolly man;But one who'd little ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book III – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
Apology For Bad Dreams (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
IIn the purple light, heavy with redwood, the slopes drop seaward,Headlong convexities of forest, drawn in together to the steepravine. ...
Book III – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
Satire I (John Donne Poems)
Away thou fondling motley humorist,Leave mee, and in this standing woodden chest,Consorted with these few bookes, let me lyeIn prison, ...
Custer’s Last Charge (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
On through the mist of the morning,On through the midday glare;A hard, rough ride by the Rosebud's side,Cutting swaths through ...
The Ghost at the Second Bridge (Henry Lawson Poems)
You'd call the man a senseless fool,- A blockhead or an ass,Who'd dare to say he saw the ghost Of Mount Victoria ...
The Riderless Horse (John O Brien Poems)
He comes when the gullies are wrapped in the gloaming,And lime-lights are trained on the tops of the gums,To stand ...
Anastasia & Sandman (Larry Levis Poems)
The brow of a horse in that moment whenThe horse is drinking water so deeply from a troughIt seems to ...