Betty (Lola Ridge Poems)
You can see the sandhills from our new room.Butterflieslive in the sandhillsand lizardsand centipedes.If you keep very stilllizards will think ...
Night Poems (14651 Poems)
Five Visions Of Captain Cook (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
ICOOK was a captain of the AdmiraltyWhen sea-captains had the evil eye,Or should have, what with beating krakens offAnd casting ...
The American Way (Gregory Corso Poems)
1I am a great AmericanI am almost nationalistic about it!I love America like a madness!But I am afraid to return ...
Advice To A Youth (Rees Prichard Poems)
... Begin, ere thou dost older grow,Thy Saviour and thy God to know,His Statutes keep, his Word desire;So shall thy ...
The Island: Canto III. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,Had ceased; and sulphury ...
A Poem (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
Love’s Triumph (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
AN ELEGIAC BALLAD.[The Expostulation.--Continued.--Fears ofPoverty.--Encouragement.--Baldwin's Song.--Deceitfulness of visionsindulgence.--Tormenting distressing Passions.--Comforts of a lowFortune.--Poverty in England contrasted with other Countries.--TheQuestion.... The ...
A Story Of Doom: Book VIII. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Then one ran, crying, while Niloiya wrought,"The Master cometh!" and she went withinTo adorn herself for meeting him. And ShemWent ...
Forsaking All Others Part 4 (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
IWAYNE was looking near and farAfter the theatre to find his car.He had taken his wife to the play that ...
A Contrast (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
Evangeline: Part The Second. II. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
IT was the month of May. Far down the Beautiful River,Past the Ohio shore and past the mouth of the ...
The Tent On The Beach (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I would not sin, in this half-playful strain,--Too light perhaps for serious years, though bornOf the enforced leisure of slow ...
Amir Khan – Part I (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her sixteenth year)BRIGHTLY o'er spire, and dome, and tower,The pale moon shone at midnight hour,While all beneath her ...
Sir Maurice (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SIR MAURICE was a wealthy lord,He liv'd in the north countrie,Well would he cope with foe-man's sword,Or the glance of ...
An Evening Dream (Sydney Thompson Dobell Poems)
I'm leaning where you loved to lean in eventides of old,The sun has sunk an hour ago behind the treeless ...
The Voyage of Telegonus (Henry Kendall Poems)
Ill fares it with the man whose lips are setTo bitter themes and words that spite the gods;For, seeing how ...
The Dream Of The World Without Death (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
NOW, sitting by her side, worn out with weeping,Behold, I fell to sleep, and had a vision,Wherein I heard a ...
The Human Music (John Freeman Poems)
At evening when the aspens rustled softAnd the last blackbird by the hedge-nest laughed,And through the leaves the moon's unmeaning ...
Immortal Eve – II (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Dear, could the wise creator makeMe, nor imagine you,When from his wisdom's awful breathI came like trembling dew,You under my ...
The Bride Of Corinth (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that heFrom a certain townsman there might claim, As ...
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (James Thomson Poems)
Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth,To mingle with his stars; and every muse,Astonish'd into silence, shun the ...
An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,To welcome home mankind's mysterious friendWine, true begetter of all arts that be;Wine, privilege of ...
Evangeline: Part The First. V. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
FOUR times the sun had risen and set; and now on the fifth dayCheerily called the cock to the sleeping ...
Cathlin Of Clutha (James Macpherson Poems)
An address to Malvina, the daughter of Toscar. The poet relates the arrival of Cathlin in Selma, to solicit aid ...
“Now Summer with her wanton court is gone” (John Armstrong Poems)
Now Summer with her wanton court is goneTo revel on the south side of the world,And flaunt and frolic out ...
One Hundred and Three (Henry Lawson Poems)
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
Ode To A Child (Mathilde Blind Poems)
BRIGHT as a morn of spring,That jubilates along the earth,With clouds, and winds, and flowers rejoicing,And all the creatures that ...
The Glen of Arrawatta (Henry Kendall Poems)
A SKY of wind! And while these fitful gustsAre beating round the windows in the cold,With sullen sobs of rain, ...