Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
Morning Poems (4608 Poems)
Sappho (James Wright Poems)
The twilight falls; I soften the dusting feathers,And clean again.The house has lain and moldered for three days.The windows smeared ...
The Rivals…A Tale of the Smart Set (P G Wodehouse Poems)
At the epoch which I write of quite the smartest men in townWere Marmaduke de Coucy and Adolphus Brummel-Brown;They led ...
Hampton Beach (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE SUNLIGHT glitters keen and bright, Where, miles away, Lies stretching to my dazzled sight A luminous belt, a misty light,Beyond the dark ...
At Dawn (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Poems)
I. THE CAVEMANI live! And the scarlet sunrise is climbing the mountain steep,I live . . . And below, in the ...
Anhelli – Chapter 8 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
And passing further they beheld many men pale and tortured,whose names are known in the fatherland.And they came to a ...
St. John. 1647 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"To the winds give our banner!Bear homeward again!"Cried the Lord of Acadia,Cried Charles of Estienne;From the prow of his shallopHe ...
From Amorgos (Nikos Gatsos Poems)
IWith their country tied to their sails and their oars hung on the windThe shipwrecked slept tamely like dead beasts on ...
The Shepherd’s Week (excerpt) (John Gay Poems)
MONDAY, OR, THE SQUABBLELobbin Clout, Cuddy, CloddipoleCUDDYHold, witless Lobbin Clout, I thee advise,Lest blisters sore on thy own tongue arise.Lo ...
Brunton Stephens (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.We cried, "How long!" We sighed, "Not yet;"And still with ...
The End Of The World (Gordon Bottomley Poems)
The snow had fallen many nights and days; The sky was come upon the earth at last, Sifting thinly down as endlessly As ...
Reverie OfMahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank (Laurence Hope Poems)
The Desert is parched in the burning sunAnd the grass is scorched and white.But the sand is passed, and the ...
The May Morning (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE morning brightness showereth down from heaven;The morning freshness goeth up from earth;The morning gladness shineth everywhere!Soon as the sun, ...
The Slave Ships (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"ALL ready?" cried the captain;"Ay, ay!" the seamen said;"Heave up the worthless lubbers, -The dying and the dead."Up from the ...
Wanderlieder (John Hay Poems)
I stand at the break of dayIn the Champs Elysees.The tremulous shafts of dawningAs they shoot o'er the Tuileries early,Strike ...
The Apple Tree (Hattie Howard Poems)
Has ever a tree from the earth upsprung Around whose body have children clung, Whose bounteous branches the birds among Have pecked the ...
Dalkeith, On The Happy Days I Have Enjoyed WithIn Its Bonny Bounds. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
In Scotia's isle much lov'd Dalkeith,How have I wish'd to seeIts ancient spire, each lowly cot,As it was wont to ...
At The Last Watch (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Pity, in place of love, That pettiest of gifts,Is but a sugar-coating over neglect. Any passerby can make a gift of it To ...
Bereavement of the Fields (William Wilfred Campbell Poems)
1 Soft fall the February snows, and soft2 Falls on my heart the snow of wintry pain;3 For never more, ...
War (Janetta Philipps Poems)
When fell Oppression o'er the earthHer iron sceptre waved with fearful sway,To thee, dread power of War, the fiend gave ...
Leichhardt (Henry Kendall Poems)
LORDLY harp, by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep,Yet shall speak and yet shall sing the words which make the ...
To Georgiana, (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
ON THEMORNING OF HER BIRTH-DAY.LAST night, as musing on a layTo greet thee on thy natal day,Sleep o'er my eyes ...
A Letter (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
After W. M. P.Dear Kitty,At length the term's ending;I 'm in for my Schools in a week;And the time that ...
Judgment Day (John Freeman Poems)
When through our bodies our two spirits burnEscaping, and no more our true eyes turnOutwards, and no more hands to ...
Reflections (Jean Ingelow Poems)
'LOOKING OVER A GATE AT A POOL IN A FIELD'What change has made the pastures sweetAnd reached the daisies at ...
The Coming Of The King (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
As the sand of the desert is smitten By hoof-beats that strike out a light,A flash by which dumb things are ...
The Gold-Seeker (Grace Greenwood Poems)
'T was upon a Southern desert, and beneath a burning sky,That a pilgrim to the gold-clime sunk, o'erwearied, down to ...
A Pastoral in Three Parts (John Cunningham Poems)
Day.In the barn the tenant cock,Close to Partlet perch'd on high,Briskly crows, (the shepherd's clock!)Jocund that morning's nigh.Swiftly, from the ...
The Victim Of Seduction (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Loud howl'd the tempest of a winter's night,And dying lamps dispens'd a twinkling light ;No friendly star illum'd the vault ...
Tauler (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Tauler, the preacher, walked, one autumn day,Without the walls of Strasburg, by the Rhine,Pondering the solemn Miracle of Life;As one ...