To A Moralist (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Are the sports of our youth so displeasing? Is love but the folly you say?Benumbed with the ...
Learning Poems (1295 Poems)
The Return of the Year (Archibald Lampman Poems)
Again the warm bare earth, the noonThat hangs upon her healing scars,The midnight round, the great red moon,The mother with ...
Legs And The Man (C J Dennis Poems)
Alas, my dear, be you high-born, Or just a Sydney cutie,I fear you've earned a he-man's scorn Thro' failing in ...
The Lesson (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
E'EN as a little child, with open book,Will to his teacher go and meekly say,In humble guise, yet wistful, earnest ...
Sweet Is The Solace Of Thy Love (Anna Laetitia Waring Poems)
I, even I, am He that comforteth you. Isaiah 2:12Sweet is the solace of Thy love,My Heavenly Friend, to me,While ...
A Child Of Mine (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I will lend you, for a little time,A child of mine, He said.For you to love the while he lives,And ...
The Housewife (Fay Inchfawn Poems)
See, I am cumbered, Lord, With serving, and with small vexa- tious things.Upstairs, and down, my feetMust ...
Lines Inscribed To The Memory Of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Christopher Anstey Poems)
O! Johnson, learned, venerable shade, What havock of thy fame hath friendship made, What childish trophies round thy manly bust, ...
The Lady’s Yes. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Yes ! I answered you last night ; " No !" this morning, Sir, I say ! Colours, seen ...
Church-Monuments (George Herbert Poems)
While that my soul repairs to her devotion,Here I entombe my flesh, that it betimesMay take acquaintance of this heap ...
The Silence of the Bush (George Gordon McCrae Poems)
There's that in our lone Bush, I know not what,Which 'genders silence; I've all that to learn.Here, there and everywhere, ...
Real Lessons (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
These are the lessons I would learn, Not how to climb above all men, Not how the greatest sums to ...
The Sparrow’s Fall (Frances Ellen Watkins Poems)
Too frail to soar — a feeble thing — It fell to earth with fluttering wing; But God, who watches ...
The Alps. Thusis. (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
OUT from the house I went when early dawn As yet had hardly ting'd the peaks with gold, And cottage-smoke ...
Catching The Sunbeams (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
Catching the sunbeams, oh, wee dimpled child, Gleefully laughing because they are bright; Knowing, ah! never, my beautiful pet, Ne'er ...
The Child in the Orchard (Edward Thomas Poems)
'He rolls in the orchard: he is stained with mossAnd with earth, the solitary old white horse.Where is his father ...
The Leaf And The Tree (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
When will you learn, myself, to bea dying leaf on a living tree?Budding, swelling, growing strong,Wearing green, but not for ...
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: (Life and contacts) (Ezra Pound Poems)
These fought in any case,and some believing,pro domo, in any case.some quick to arm,some for adventure,some from fear of weakness,some ...
In The Shell Hole Of The World (Genevieve Taggard Poems)
What time is it? Midnight and very dark.Are you afraid? ...
The Incorrigible (C J Dennis Poems)
The bad boy of Europe, He stands in dire disgrace,Crying too loud his innocence While guilt grins from his face.The ...
On The Death Of The Rev. Mr. Walker (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
WHAT means, alas! that sudden burst of tears?Oh Death! no common victim dost thou crave;No vulgar spirit mounts th' ethereal ...
XXV. How to be Invincible (Ellis Walker Poems)
When any man of greater pow'r you seeInvested with the robes of dignity,In honour's gaudiest, gayest liveryDreaded by all, whose ...
Two Viewpoints (Amelia Josephine Burr Poems)
A German soldier in his journal wrote:He was a French Boy Scout--a little lad No bigger than my Hansel. He ...
On Seeing A list Of Subscribers To This Little Book (Christian Milne Poems)
I wonder, said a friend of mine,"How many names of taste will shine"On your Subscription List?""Two hundred, Sir, perhaps, or ...
To The Young (Adam Asnyk Poems)
The brightening flame of truth pursue,Seek to discover ways no human knows.With every secret now revealed to you,The soul of ...
Stuck (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I'm up against it day by day,My ignorance is distressing;The things I don't know on the wayI'm busily confessing.Time was ...
Once Gods Walked… (Friedrich Holderlin Poems)
Once gods walked among humans,The splendid Muses and youthful ApolloInspired and healed us, just like you.And you are to me ...
Half Broke (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
This man is busy saddlin' up a skeery half broke colt.It is too soon yet to trust him and he ...
Cats (Francis Scarfe Poems)
Those who love cats which do not even purrOr which are thin and tired and very old,Bend down to them ...
Birthday Verses (David John Scott Poems)
In the morning of life's day,All before is bright and gay,All behind is like a dream,Or the morn's uncertain beam,Falling ...