Drinking Song (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
There are people, I know, to be found, Who say, and apparently think,That sorrow and care may be drowned By a timely ...
People Poems (3870 Poems)
Terminal Silhouette (Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva Poems)
I know you not and in no wayI want to lose starry illusionsWith such a face in worst confusionPeople are ...
Bread And Roses (James Oppenheim Poems)
As we come marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill-lofts grayAre touched with ...
The Poor Voter On Election Day (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE proudest now is but my peer,The highest not more high;To-day, of all the weary year,A king of men am ...
XXI. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Unto the old man, who sigheth after youthfulness, say-What is this? laughest thou at thy beard, old man?Since in a ...
I Will Not Cry (Mirza Ghalib Poems)
I will not cry for satisfaction if I could get my choice,Among the divine beautiful virgins of heaven, I want ...
A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen (Constantine P. Cavafy Poems)
A procession of priests and laymen-each walk of life represented-moves through streets, squares, and gatesof the famous city, Antioch.At the ...
A Play Festival In Ogden Park (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Oh gay and shining June time!Oh meadow brave and bright,Abloom with little children,All tossing in the light!They dance and circle ...
Broken Hearts (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
Broken hearts are flung to Hell's outpost,Death and desolation tease the land;This is due to Fascists' wildest boastThat has plagued ...
Comrades in Arms-Lets (Jessie Pope Poems)
NOT theirs the popular uniformThat takes the feminine heart by storm,And wins soft glances, shy or warm,The perquisites of pluck.But ...
Tree Toad (Hilda Conkling Poems)
Tree-toad is a small gray personwith a silver voice.Tree-toad is a leaf-gray shadowthat sings.Tree-toad is never seenunless a star squeezes ...
Running Amok (Nick Carbo Poems)
In the slums of Tondo, people dwellin shacks of cardboard, bits of bamboo,corrugated metal, and a few cement blocks.They come ...
The Whistle (Marin Sorescu Poems)
Suddenly a whistleShrieks outBehind a passer-byWhose body fills instantly with sawdustLike a tree when it feelsAt the edge of the ...
Address To The Rev. Dr. Gardner of Bothwell (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On Completing The Fiftieth Year of His MinistryPastor revered, beloved! the Muse would fainJoin on fair "Bothwell banks" the jubilant ...
The Wall Between (Katharine Tynan Poems)
The wall between is grown so thin That whoso peers may seeA flutter of rose, a living green Like new leaves on ...
The Blizzard (Phillis Levin Poems)
Now that the worst is over, they predictSomething messy and difficult, though notLife-threatening. Clearly we neededTo stock up on water ...
Accountability (William Stafford Poems)
Cold nights outside the taverns in Wyomingpickups and big semis lounge idling, letting theirhaunches twitch now and then in gusts ...
Manna To Israel Well Supplied (John Newton Poems)
Manna to Israel well suppliedThe want of other bread;While God is able to provide,His people shall be fed.Thus though the ...
Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I saw the curl of his waving lash,And the glance of his knowing eye,And I knew that he thought he ...
Our Lady (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poems)
MOTHER of God! no lady thou: Common woman of common earthOur Lady ladies call thee now, But Christ was never of gentle ...
To Pennsylvania (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O STATE prayer-founded! never hungSuch choice upon a people's tongue,Such power to bless or ban,As that which makes thy whisper ...
Dead- A Prisoner (Katharine Tynan Poems)
He died the loneliest death of all, Amid his foes he died.But Someone's leaped the outer wall And Someone's come inside,And he ...
Ballade of the Traffickers (Franklin P. Adams Poems)
Up goes the price of our bread--Up goes the cost of our caking!People must ever be fed;Bakers must ever be ...
The Lord’s Call To His Children (John Newton Poems)
Let us adore the grace that seeksTo draw our hearts above!Attend, 'tis God the Saviour speaks,And every word is love.Though ...
Courtesy (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Of Courtesy, it is much lessThan Courage of Heart or Holiness,Yet in my Walks it seems to meThat the Grace ...
The Old Liberators (Robert Hedin Poems)
Of all the people in the mornings at the mall,It's the old liberators I like best,Those veterans of the Bulge, ...
Neither Snow (William Taylor Collins Poems)
When all of a sudden the city air filled with snow,the distinguishable flakesblowing sideways,looked like krillfleeing the maw of an ...
Legend (John Stanier Waller Poems)
Yesterday it seems you were acting on a stageYet so many years ago, so many yearsI have heard the hooves ...
“No, I’m not Byron: I am, yet,” (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
No, I'm not Byron; I am, yet,Another choice for the sacred dole,Like him - a persecuted soul,But only of the ...
On The Proposed Presentation (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On The Proposed Presentation of Guns By The People of Britain To The King of Sardinia, In Aid To Italian ...