Janizary Leading Prisoners (Giorgi Leonidze Poems)
Scraps of cloud like old rags, half-ripped, dirtyMove along, driven by the raw March wind.Silently the Janizary herd their prisonersToward ...
Kiss Poems (2447 Poems)
To The Philippines (Jose Rizal Poems)
Warm and beautiful like a houri of yore,as gracious and as pure as the break of dawnwhen darling clouds take ...
Kissing (Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury Poems)
Come hither Womankind and all their worth,Give me thy kisses as I call them forth.Give me the billig-kiss, that of ...
At My Word (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
I EVER said that I could pay high tollFor some dear sake held worthy, utterly;It was the very hidden pride ...
Pessimoptimism (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Ye little think what toil it was to buildA world of men imperfect even as this,Where we conceive of Good ...
A Vernal Hymn (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE fresh spring burgeons into bloom--And Earth with all her vernal charmsLies like a queenly bride enclaspedWithin her heavenly bridegroom's ...
Lines (Mathilde Blind Poems)
THOU camest with the coming Spring!With swallows, and the murmuringOf unloosed waters, with the birthOf daisies dimpling the green earth.And ...
Lines II (Mathilde Blind Poems)
THOU camest with the coming Spring!With swallows, and the murmuringOf unloosed waters, with the birthOf daisies dimpling the green earth.And ...
Leigh Hunt (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
DESPITE misfortune, poverty, the dearthOf simplest justice to his heart and brain,This gracious optimist lived not in vain;Rather, he made ...
Licia Sonnets 16 (Giles Fletcher Sr Poems)
Grant, fairest kind, a kiss unto thy friend!A blush replied, and yet a kiss I had.It is not heaven that ...
Sonnett – XXVII (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I thought our love at full, but I did err;Joy's wreath drooped o'er mine eyes; I could not seeThat sorrow ...
Music (John Vance Cheney Poems)
Take of the maiden's and the mother's sigh,Of childhood's dream, and hope that age doth bless,Of roses and the south ...
An Improver (Lesbia Harford Poems)
Maisie's been holding down her head all day,Her little red head. And her pointed chinRests on her neck that slips ...
Falling Fruit Blossom (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
SNOW falls, but not the snow of winter's chill:'Tis white pear-blossom petals that have doneTheir herald duty. Now the kiss ...
Love and Sorrow (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I thought our love at full, but I did err;Joy's wreath drooped o'er mine eyes; I could not seeThat sorrow ...
Love’s Height (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
LOVE'S name is easy saying; yet who knowsLove's uttermost, who loves not in his loveThe highest he has known, and ...
Grey Rocks, and Greyer Sea (Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts Poems)
Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore --And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.The ...
The Poet’s Heritage (Obadiah Cyrus Auringer Poems)
All riches, honor, fame's divine estate,Are due the gentle poet and his song.The earth is first for him; to him ...
The Stirrup Cup (John Hay Poems)
My short and happy day is done,The long and dreary night comes on;And at my door the Pale Horse stands,To ...
Love Sonnet XLIV (Zora Bernice May Cross Poems)
Love is the sepulchre of all my sin,If it be sin to let the body sinkIn that slow dying the ...
Song Of Faiz Ulla (Laurence Hope Poems)
Just at the time when Jasmins bloom, most sweetly in the summer weather,Lost in the scented Jungle gloom, one sultry ...
Green (Paul Verlaine Poems)
See, blossoms, branches, fruit, leaves I have brought, And then my heart that for you only sighs;With those white hands of ...
In Memoriam : Francis Archibald Douglas (Lord Alfred Douglas Poems)
Dear friend, dear brother, I have owed you thisSince many days, the tribute of a song.Shall I cheat you who ...
Wrestling (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
OUR oneness is the wrestlers', fierce and close,Thrusting and thrust;One life in dual effort for one prize,--We fight, and must;For ...
Atalanta (Maurice Thompson Poems)
When Spring grows old, and sleepy windsSet from the south with odors sweet,I see my love, in green, cool groves,Speed ...
A Convent Wothout God (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Poems)
A prison is a convent without God.Poverty, Chastity, ObedienceIts precepts are. In this austere abodeNone gather wealth of pleasure or ...
At Seventeen (Arthur Symons Poems)
You were a child, and liked me, yesterday.To-day you are a woman, and perhapsThose softer eyes betoken the sweet lapseOf ...
The Breasts of Mnasidice (Pierre Louys Poems)
Carefully she opened her tunic with onehand and offered me her warm soft breasts asone offers a pair of living ...
Keep your eyes open when you kiss (John Berryman Poems)
Keep your eyes open when you kiss: do: whenYou kiss. All silly time else, close them to;Unsleeping, I implore you ...
Valse Jeune (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
ARE favoring ladies above thee? Are there dowries and lands? Do they saySeven others are fair? But I love thee: Aultre n'auray!All ...