Robin Hood (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
IN a fair wood like this, where the beeches are growing, Brave Robin Hood hunted in days of old; Down ...
Literature Poems (4091 Poems)
Epilogue (Francis Thompson Poems)
Virtue may unlock hell, or evenA sin turn in the wards of Heaven,(As ethics of the text-book go),So little men ...
Vegas (Charles Bukowski Poems)
there was a frozen tree that I wanted to paint but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across ...
The Seventh (Attila Jozsef Poems)
If you set out in this world, better be born seven times. Once, in a house on fire, once, in ...
The River Charles (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
BESIDE thee, O my river, where I waitThrough vista long of years and drink my fillOf beauty and of light, ...
Extinct Monsters (Eugene Field Poems)
Oh, had I lived in the good old days, When the Ichthyosaurus ramped around, ...
Carisbrooke Chimes (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
CARISBROOKE Church on the fifth of November Flung out the silver hid deep in her chimes; This was her burden, ...
To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time (Countee Cullen Poems)
I cannot hold my peace, John Keats; There never was a spring like this; It is an echo, that repeats ...
The Wanderers (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Out from her doorway peeped the little maid To gaze upon the world most full of glee. Her eager eyes ...
The Anonymous Altruist (C J Dennis Poems)
A mysterious cove in the Customs -- The boss, so to speak, of the Ban --I have blamed a good ...
The End Of A Page (Bernard Waters Poems)
THE Room is getting cold, one gas-light burns And the fire is now a monotonous red glow ; The old ...
Autumn, 1920 (Bernard Waters Poems)
RESTLESS is the present night, Fearfully it seems to shiver, No wind there is and yet Strangely the leaves quiver. ...
The Silver Locks (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Tho' youth may boast the curls that flow,In sunny waves of auburn glow;As graceful on thy hoary head,Has time the ...
Standardisation (A D Hope Poems)
When, darkly brooding on this Modern Age, The journalist with his marketable woes Fills up once more the inevitable page ...
Gretchen (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I sit by the narrow window, Ere the summer sunlight dies,And before me the "Faust" of Goethe, In its strange, ...
The Nude Painting (Bich Khe Poems)
A curvaceous body in the To Nu painting.O goddess of beauty! 'T is hither that you reign?Where are you now? ...
Autumn Interlude (C J Dennis Poems)
I said goodbye to the bees last Friday week,To blooms, and to things like these, for Winter bleak Was shouting ...
To A Poet (Alice Meynell Poems)
Thou who singest through the earth, All the earth's wild creatures fly thee,Everywhere thou marrest mirth. Dumbly they defy thee.There ...
La Ronde Du Diable (Amy Lowell Poems)
Here we go round the ivy-bush, And that's a tune we all dance to. Little poet people snatching ivy, Trying ...
A Poem For the End of the Century (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
When everything was fineAnd the notion of sin had vanishedAnd the earth was readyIn universal peaceTo consume and rejoiceWithout creeds ...
Schiller And Sunshine (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I lay in the quiet sunshine Of the summer's golden heat;In my heart was the music of Schiller, And the ...
Rubber-Stamp Humour (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
If couples mated but for love; If women all were perfect cooks; If Hoosier authors wrote no books; ...
Ode to Spring (Emma Lyon Poems)
WAFT , Halcyon pow'r, thy gentle gales In murmurs through the mellowing air;Come, strew with cheerful green the vales, ...
Bion’s Song Of Eros (Eugene Field Poems)
Eros is the god of love; He and I are hand-in-glove. All the gentle, gracious Muses ...
Love (Albert Pike Poems)
I am the soul of the Universe,In Nature's pulse I beat; To Doom and Death I am a curse, I ...
Application For A Grant (Anthony Hecht Poems)
Noble executors of the munificent testament Of the late John Simon Guggenheim, distinguished bunch Of benefactors, there are certain kinds ...
The Jesters (Donald Marquis Poems)
A TOAST to the Fools! Pierrot, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Clown, Merry-Andrew, Buffoon -- Touchstone and Triboulet -- all of the tribe. ...
Picadilly (Frederick Locker-Lampson Poems)
PICCADILLY! Shops, palaces, bustle, and breeze, The whirring of wheels, and the murmur of trees; By night or by day, ...
On The Saints Of The Church at York (Alcuin Poems)
There the Eboric scholars felt the rule Of Master Aelbert, teaching in the ...
Fairy Tales (Edith Mirick Poems)
BRIARWaiting for love I shyly creptInto a turret room and slept.I woke uneasily at mornAfter a hundred years. The thornHas ...