Why Negroes Don’t Unite (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Why of all the many races in the country where we live,Do we find so little union as the Negro ...
Opinions Poems (208 Poems)
Greedy Richard (Jane Taylor Poems)
"I think I want some pies this morning,"Said Dick, stretching himself and yawning;So down he threw his slate and books,And ...
Market Women’s Cries (Jonathan Swift Poems)
APPLESCOME buy my fine wares, Plums, apples and pears. A hundred a penny, In conscience too many: Come, will you have any? My children are ...
My Three Loves (Henry Sambrooke Leigh Poems)
When Life was all a summer day,And I was under twenty,Three loves were scattered in my way-And three at once ...
The Blind Man And The Elephant (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
It was six men of Indostan, to learning much inclined,who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were ...
To Lou Andreas-Salo (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
I held myself too open, I forgotthat outside not just things exist and animalsfully at ease in themselves, whose eyesreach ...
Vignette – XVI (Matilda Betham Poems)
To MRS. A.An Hour was before me, no creature more bright,More airy, more joyous, e'er sprang on my sight.To catch ...
Happiness (Reconsidered) (Judith Viorst Poems)
Happiness Is a clean bill of health from the doctor, And the kids shouldn't move back home for more than a year, And not ...
Lord Lundy, Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Lord Lundy from his earliest yearsWas far too freely moved to Tears.For instance if his Mother said,"Lundy! It's time to ...
The Olde, Olde, very Olde Man; or The Age and Long Life of Thomas Parr (John Taylor Poems)
Good wholesome labour was his exercise,Down with the lamb, and with the lark would rise:In mire and toiling sweat he ...
Simplify Me When I’m Dead (Keith Douglas Poems)
Remember me when I am deadand simplify me when I'm dead.As the processes of earthstrip off the colour of the ...
A World made by foure Atomes. (Margaret Cavendish Poems)
SHarpe Atomes Fire subtle, quicke, and dry,The Long, like Shafts still into Aire fly.The Round to Water moist, (a hollow ...
To Mr. Murray (For Oxford And For Waldegrave) (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
For Oxford and for WaldegraveYou give much more than me you gave;Which is not fairly to behave, My Murray.Because if a ...
Dream Song 113: or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld (John Berryman Poems)
or Amy Vladeck or Riva FreifeldThat isna Henry limping. That's a hobbleclapped on mere Henry by the most high GODfor ...
Dream Song 45: He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back (John Berryman Poems)
He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.He thought they was old friends. He felt on the stairwhere her papa ...
Our President (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
GOD help him! Ay, and let us help him, too,Help him with our one hundred million mindsMolded to loyalty, so ...
On Seeing The Roscius For The First Time In The Play Of Douglas (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
IN Scottish garb, and shepherd's humble guise,At length the Roscius met these longing eyes.Anxious to judge if fashion or if ...
Self Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
HENCEFORTH, please God, forever I foregoThe yoke of men's opinions. I will beLight-hearted as a bird, and live with God.I ...
Aanewala Khatra (Toxin) (Raghuvir Sahay Poems)
In this shameful, slavish agefind me a mannot given to flatteryFind me povertythat doesn't hold you up to ransom.Women will ...
Written In The Nouveaux Interests Des Princes De L’Europe (Matthew Prior Poems)
Bless'd be the princes who have foughtFor pompous names or wide dominion,Since by their error we are taughtThat happiness is ...
On Reading Grim’s Attack Upon Clinton. (George Pope Morris Poems)
'Tis the opinion of the town That Grim's a silly elf:In trying to write Clinton down, He went RIGHT DOWN HIMSELF. (George ...
Valuation (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"Pray tell me how you estimateThe wolf," I asked a lamb."My own opinion, sir, to state,He is not worth a ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
The Duellist – Book III (Charles Churchill Poems)
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
The Borough. Letter X: Clubs And Social Meetings (George Crabbe Poems)
YOU say you envy in your calm retreatOur social Meetings;--'tis with joy we meet.In these our parties you are pleased ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto I (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
In Iowa, Where the Plan for an Attack on Harper’s Ferry Was Explained and Adopted (Edward W Williams Poems)
Dear friends, let me to you relate A plan that I begot of yore,A plan to conquer, extirpate Slaveholding now ...
Rose of Aberlone (Brainerd Currie Poems)
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
The Poor Of The Borough. Letter XXI: Abel Keene (George Crabbe Poems)
A QUIET, simple man was Abel Keene,He meant no harm, nor did he often mean;He kept a school of loud ...
The Borough. Letter III: The Vicar–The Curate (George Crabbe Poems)
THE VICAR.WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,Sleep the departed Vicars of the place;Of most, all mention, memory, thought ...