The Cavalier’s March to London (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
To horse! to horse! brave Cavaliers!To horse for Church and Crown!Strike, strike your tents! snatch up your spears!And ho for ...
Horse Poems (1188 Poems)
The Skyline Riders (Henry Lawson Poems)
Against the light of a dawning white My Skyline Riders stand-There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead And the selfish ...
Go Down Death (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
(A Funeral Sermon)Weep not, weep not,She is not dead;She's resting in the bosom of Jesus.Heart-broken husband--weep no more;Grief-stricken son--weep no ...
Before A Statue Of Buddha (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O Buddha, of the mystic smileAnd downcast, dreamful eyes,To whom unnumbered sacred shrinesAnd gilded statues rise,Whose fanes are filled with ...
The Ride To The Lady (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
"Now since mine even is come at last,—For I have been the sport of steel,And hot life ebbeth from me ...
Return (George Oppen Poems)
This Earth the king saidLooking at the ground;This England. But we driveA Sunday paradiseOf parkway, trees flow into trees and ...
A pleasaunt Iest (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Sometimes in Fraunce it did so chaunce, One that did seruice lacke:A country clowne went vp and downe, With fardell on his ...
The Grief Of A Girl’s Heart (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
O Donall og, if you go across the sea, bring myself with you and donot forget it; and you will have ...
At Fort Pillow (James Ryder Randall Poems)
You shudder as you think uponThe carnage of the grim report -The desolation when we wonThe inner trenches of the ...
The Adventures Of An Elf (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
A PICTURE POEM FOR THE LITTLE ONES.I.Dear children, listen whilst I tellWhat to a certain Elf befell,Who left his house ...
Elegy With A Chimneysweep Falling Inside It (Larry Levis Poems)
Those twenty-six letters filling the blackboardCompose the dark, composeThe illiterate summer sky & its stars as they appearOne by one, ...
Some Incidents In The Latter Days of John Whitelaw (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The bridge was won, the foe had crossedThe Clyde; the Covenanted hostHad lost the day, and vanquished fled.Mixed with the ...
The Hero (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Mother, let us imagine we are travelling, and passing through astrange and dangerous country. You are riding in a palanquin and ...
The Postilion (Nikolaus Lenau Poems)
Passing lovely was the night, Silver clouds flew o'er us, Spring, methought, with splendor dight Led the happy chorus. Sleep-entranced lay wood and dale, Empty ...
The Prisoner (Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov Poems)
THERE, where the swift Rhone's waters flow Its verdant banks between;Where fragrant myrtles bending grow, And Rhone reflects their green;There, where the ...
Come Quietly, Britain! (Lloyd Roberts Poems)
COME quietly, Britain, all together, come!It is time!We have waited, weighed, and wonderedWho had blundered;Stared askance at one anotherAs our ...
The Farewell Of The Old Guard At Fontainebleau, 1814 (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Stately court of Fontainebleau,Nine and ninety years agoOn thy spacious esplanade,Ranged in formal dress parade,Stood the Emperor's grenadiersWith their bronzed ...
A Letter To Dr. Helsham (Jonathan Swift Poems)
SIR, Pray discruciate what follows.The dullest beast, and gentleman's liquor,When young is often due to the vicar,The dullest of beasts, and ...
Milkweed and Monarch (Paul Muldoon Poems)
The rain comes flapping through the yardlike a tablecloth that she hand-embroidered.My mother has left it on the line.It is ...
The Three Troops (George Walter Thornbury Poems)
During the Protectorate INTO the Devil tavern Three booted troopers strode, From spur to feather spotted and splash'd With the mud ...
Wanted – A Theme (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE spring is here again, mother! she bursts upon our sight,Like a young girl in her bridal dress, all bloom, ...
German Joe (Edward George Dyson Poems)
SKIRTING the swamp and the tangled scrub,Tramping and turning amidst the trees,Carrying nothing but blankets and grub,Careless of pleasure and ...
Spear Thistle (John Clare Poems)
Where the broad sheepwalk bare and brown scant grass pining after showers,And winds go fanning up and down The little strawy ...
Black Bess (Eliza Cook Poems)
TURPIN had his Black Bess, and she carried him well,As fame with her loud-breathing trumpet will tell;She knew not the ...
Matchit Moodus (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
See you upon the lonely moor,A crazy building rise?No hand dares venture to open the door -No footstep treads its ...
Harry Morant (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Harry Morant was a friend I hadIn the years long passed away,A chivalrous, wild and reckless lad,A knight born out ...
Family Romance (Larry Levis Poems)
Sister once of weeds & a dark water that held stillIn ditches reflecting the odd,Abstaining clouds that passed, & keptTheir ...
The Clearing Shower (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE rising moon look'd clear and mild,In chasten'd tints of glowing eve,And bright the early morning smil'd;It flatter'd only to ...
The Boundary Rider (Thomas William Heney Poems)
THE BRIDLE reins hang loose in the hold of his lean left hand;As the tether gives, the horse bends browsing ...
Invitation to a Hay (Jean Garrigue Poems)
A settlement of loveIs what I'd risk if you would.A central fountain and a horse,A little native elegance,Some green-shuttered saffron ...