The Muleteer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind;The present tale Boccace relates you'll find;Agiluf was the noble monarch's name;Teudelingua he married, ...
Obstacles Poems (209 Poems)
Beechenbrook – IV (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
"I am weary and worn,--I am hungry and chill, And cuttingly strikes the keen blast o'er the hill; All day I have ...
As Ireland Wore the Green (Henry Lawson Poems)
BY RIGHT of birth in southern land I send my warning forth.I see my country ruined by the wrongs that ...
Anhelli – Chapter 7 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
And the Shaman said : "Lo, now we shall show no more miracles,nor the power of God that is in ...
Sketch Of An Occurrence On Board A Brig (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
I.The sun's beam and the moon's beam check the sea,The light wave smiles in both, and sportinglyCatching the silver on ...
Three Valentines to the Wide World (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
IThe child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, shestands on one leg and folds up the other. She is listeningto the ...
Unspoken Language (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
LANGUAGE is slow. The mastery of wantsDoth teach it to the infant, drop by drop,As brooklets gather.Years of studious toilUnfold ...
A Morning Prayer, To Be Us’d After A Person Is Up, Wash’d, And Dress’d (Rees Prichard Poems)
O God of mercy, soft-ey'd Pity's Sire!For Jesus sake, my num'rous faults pass o'er,Which more Arithmetic, I own, requireTo count, ...
Antony Villa (Henry Lawson Poems)
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
Deirdre’s Lament For The Sons Of Usnach (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
As for Deirdre, she cried pitifully, wearily, and tore her fair hair,and she was talking of the sons of Usnach, ...
Black Bonnets (Henry Lawson Poems)
A day of seeming innocence,A glorious sun and sky,And, just above my picket fence,Black Bonnet passing by.In knitted gloves and ...
The Bucking-Tub (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF once in love, you'll soon invention findAnd not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;The youngest 'prentice, when he ...
Canada (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Dear Canada, our native land, Our love for thee grows day by day;Our fathers left the olden strand, O'er sea and rapids ...
Since the Cities are the Cities (Henry Lawson Poems)
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
My Own Place (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
Sustain (Alison Luterman Poems)
1.My love plays piano and his foot hovers above the pedal.Sustain, they call it when the note floatslike a basketball ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. VII. The Servant-Of-All-Work (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Drudgery all the day, Drudgery half the night,—Scolded about and worried away,Begrudged of sleep, and victuals and pay,And always in dread ...
The morning sun (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
Far from the ignoble strife of Man's tavern you areThe wine-cup adorning the sky's assemblage you areThe jewel which should ...
The Prospector (Pat O Cotter Poems)
Where the ragged, snow-capped saw tooth Cuts the azure of the skyAnd watches o'er the lonely land As ages wander by;Where the ...
To My First Love (Khristo Botev Poems)
Put aside that song of love,do not fill my heart with pain -I'm young but I don't know of youthand ...
The Song Of Perfect Assurance (To The Demons) (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
Obeisance to the perfect Marpa.I am the Yogi who perceives the Ultimate Truth.In the Origin of the Unborn, I first ...
John Cornstalk (Henry Lawson Poems)
JACK CORNSTALK lives in the Southern Land- What says Cornstalk John?Jack Cornstalk says in a loud firm voice: "Land of the South, ...
The Throwback (Pat O Cotter Poems)
He was born far east of the Rockies Of a pet in society's van;A wine-soaked daughter of pleasure Bred back and threw ...
Lithuania (Maironis Poems)
The Nemunas flows in strong repose And waters our native soil.Birute's song in our brother's tongue Can lighten the ploughman's toil. As our ...
Weep Not (Leo Alishan Poems)
WHY art thou troubled, wandering heart ?Why dost thou sigh with pain?From whom do all thy sufferings come?Of whom dost ...
Dairy Ode (James McIntyre Poems)
Our muse it doth refuse to singOf cheese made early in the spring,When cows give milk from spring fodderYou cannot ...
Because Even the Word Obstacle is an Obstacle (Alison Luterman Poems)
Try to love everything that gets in your way:the Chinese women in flowered bathing capsmurmuring together in Mandarin, doing leg ...
Georgie Sails To-Morrow! (Henry Clay Work Poems)
For sixteen years, a merry, laughing maiden, I have warbl'd only songs of joy;And in this heart, so very lightly laden, Happy ...
“The clock is on the stroke of six” (Mary Botham Howitt Poems)
The clock is on the stroke of six,The Father's work is done;Sweep up the hearth and mend the fire,And put ...
The Colorful Rose (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
You are not familiar with the hardships of solving enigmasO Beautiful Rose! Perhaps you do not have sublime feelings in ...