Farewell To J. R. Lowell (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
FAREWELL, for the bark has her breast to the tide,And the rough arms of Ocean are stretched for his bride;The ...
Kiss Poems (2447 Poems)
The tamed puma (Irving Layton Poems)
You are mistaken, he saidI am neither lecher nor womanizer.If I'm crazy about womenit's for the beautysome pitying devil threw ...
Death Of A Youth Of Zeitoun (Mugurditch Beshiktashlian Poems)
WHOM dost thou seek, sweet mother?Come, tremble not, draw near!Gaze on thy son's blood-streaming woundsWithout a sigh or tear.Let Turkish ...
Activity (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Open the casement, and up with the Sun!His gallant journey is just begun;Over the hills his chariot is roll'd,Banner'd with ...
Snow Dance For The Dead (Lola Ridge Poems)
Dance, little children ... it is holy twilight . . .Have you hung paper flowers about the necks of the ...
Second Thoughts (Michael Field Poems)
I thought of leaving her for a dayIn town, it was such an iron winterAt Durdans, the garden frosty clay,The ...
Love’s Logic (Henry Timrod Poems)
And if I ask thee for a kiss,I ask no more than this sweet breeze,With far less title to the ...
Rocking The baby (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
I hear her rocking the baby-- Her room is just next to mine--And I fancy I feel the dimpled arms That round ...
To-Day (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
"The sun will set at day's decline"; Qu'importe?Quaff off meanwhile life's sparkling wine!Of what avail are mournful fears,Foreboding sighs and idle ...
The Metaphysical Amorist (James Vincent Cunningham Poems)
You are the problem I propose,My dear, the text my musings glose:I call you for convenience love.By definition you're a ...
Two (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
With her soft face half turned to me, Like an arrested moonbeam, she Stood in the cirque of that deep tree. I took ...
The Hillman’s Lass (Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall Poems)
OVER the field where the grass is cool,(Follow the road who must !)With a song for the beech and the ...
“An idle poet, dreaming” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AN idle poet, dreaming in the sun,One given to much unhallowed vagrancyOf thought and step; who, when he comes to ...
Rose Dolores (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
THE moan of Rose Dolores, she made her plaint to me,"My hair is lifted by the wind that sweeps in ...
In Michael Robins’s Class Minus One (Bob Hicok Poems)
At the desk where the boy sat, he sees the Chicago River.It raises its hand.It asks if metaphor should burn.He ...
A Wedding Song (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Come up the broad river, the Thames, my Dane, My Dane with the beautiful eyes!Thousands and thousands await thee full fain, And ...
Lese-Amour (John Hay Poems)
How well my heart remembersBeside these camp-fire embersThe eyes that smiled so far away,-- The joy that was November's. Her voice to ...
When Mother Combed My Hair (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
When Memory, with gentle hand,Has led me to that foreign landOf childhood days, I long to beAgain the boy on ...
Aspiration (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
God knows I strive against low lust and vice, Wound in the net of their voluptuous hair; God knows that all their ...
A Saint (Padraic Colum Poems)
THE stir of children with fresh dresses on,And men who meet and say unguarded words,And women from the coopsOf drudgeries ...
Deaf And Dumb (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
He lies on the grass, looking up to the sky;Blue butterflies pass like a breath or a sigh,The shy little ...
Fatherhood (Henry Charles Beeching Poems)
A kiss, a word of thanks, away They're gone, and you forsaken learn The blessedness of giving; they (So Nature bids) forget, nor ...
The Filipino Politician (Nick Carbo Poems)
When he finds his wife in bed with another man--The conservative politician feels an ache in his stomach,remembers the longanisa ...
From Delia To Alonzo (Janet Little Poems)
WHEN Adam was in spacious Eden plac'd,Where rural sweets luxuriant did abound,All that could charm the eye or please the ...
Lines Suggested By A Late Occurrence. (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
"How slow we drive! - but yet the hour will come,When friends shall greet me with affection's kiss;When, seated at ...
Ballad Of Human Life (Thomas Lovell Beddoes Poems)
WHEN we were girl and boy together,We toss'd about the flowersAnd wreath'd the blushing hoursInto a posy green and sweet.I ...
Mansfield Park (Isaac Hawkins Browne Poems)
'Sublime tobacco ! which from east to westCheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest;Which on the Moslem's ottoman dividesHis ...
A Child’s Thought (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Little beggar children, with your little ragged dresses,Does love atone for joys unknown by beautiful caresses?Or, do you live in ...
Kiss Me, Katie! (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
KATIE, Katie, little Katie!Mouth of rose and eyes of blue,(Eyes that look one frankly through!)When I'm absent don't you miss ...
A Song For Yule (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
ISing, Hey, when the time rolls round this way,And the bells peal out, _'Tis Christmas Day_;The world is better then ...