Jacob Godbey (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
How did you feel, you libertarians, Who spent your talents rallying noble reasons Around the saloon, as if Liberty Was ...
Liberty & Freedom Poems (2444 Poems)
Weep On, Weep On (Thomas Moore Poems)
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past, Your dreams of pride are o'er; The fatal chain is round you ...
Jacob Goodpasture (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...
The Laughter Of Women (Lisel Mueller Poems)
The laughter of women sets fire to the Halls of Injustice and the false evidence burns to a beautiful white ...
After the Battle (Thomas Moore Poems)
Night closed around the conqueror's way, And lightnings show'd the distant hill, Where those who lost that dreadful day Stood ...
First Anniversary (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
Befire the Battle (Thomas Moore Poems)
By the hope within us springing, Herald of to-morrow's strife; By that sun, whose light is bringing Chains or freedom, ...
The Character Of Holland (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as ...
Sonnet 22 (John Milton Poems)
XXII Cyriac, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of ...
To the Same (John Milton Poems)
Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, ...
To the Lady Margaret Ley (John Milton Poems)
Daughter to that good Earl, one President Of England's Council and her Treasury, Who lived in both unstained with gold ...
On the Same (John Milton Poems)
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a ...
The King’s Breakfast (A. A. Milne Poems)
The King's Breakfast The King asked The Queen, and The Queen asked The Dairymaid: "Could we have some butter for ...
Marie Bateson (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
You observe the carven hand With the index finger pointing heavenward. That is the direction, no doubt. But how shall ...
Roger Heston (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I Argue about the freedom of the will. My favorite metaphor was Prickett's ...
John Hancock Otis (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and was to the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Hildrup Tubbs (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I made two fights for the people. First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon Of independence, for reform, and ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ...
SANDSTORM IN IRAQ (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
Dust is Blowing Blood is Flowing Dead are Worming U.N. are Groaning French are Moaning Bush Gets Going Protestors are ...
Clouds (Yahia Lababidi Poems)
to find the origin, trace back the manifestations. Tao Between being and non-being barely there these sails of water, ice, ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...