Paris Journal (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
So much forgotten alreadySo much forgottenSo much to forgetOnce the idea of purityborn, all was lostirrevocablyThe Black Musicianin a house ...
Performance Arts Poems (304 Poems)
Ezekiel (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
They hear Thee not, O God! nor see;Beneath Thy rod they mock at Thee;The princes of our ancient lineLie drunken ...
Thoughts of New England (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Gloucester streets walking in Autumn twilight,Past Kineburgh's cottage and old Raven Tavern,That Hoare he kept, the Puritan, who tiredOr fired, ...
Notes On An Unadorned Night (Daniel Nester Poems)
after Rene CharLet's agree that the night is a blank canvas, a stationbreak, a bridge of a song.Let's agree further ...
Elegy IV (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes?We are not of one mind. Are not like birdsin unison migrating. ...
The Clinchiad : Complete (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
See Clinchie to the hen approach,A scoundrel screen'd in gilded coach.Near to Edina's lofty town,Upon a worthy Baron's ground,A poor ...
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 ...
How Much Fortunatus Could Do With A Cap (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Fortunatus, a fisherman Dane, Set out on a sudden for Spain, Because, runs the story, He'd met with a hoary Mysterious sorcerer chap, Who, trouble ...
An Unrecorded Chronicle (Henry Glassford Bell Poems)
Roll back, roll back a hundred years,Thou ever-rolling wheel of time ;Restore again dead hopes and fears,Exhume the undiscovered crime.Why ...
The Diary of Ana (Ana Poems)
'Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
An Epistle To The Earl Of Burlington (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
How happy you! who varied joys pursue;And every hour presents you something new!Plans, schemes, and models, all Palladio's art,For six ...
Autobiograph (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
I was born in 1902I never once went back to my birthplaceI don't like to turn backat three I served ...
Address For The Benefit Of Henry Placide. (George Pope Morris Poems)
The music's done. Be quiet, Mr. Durie!Your bell and whistle put me in a fury!Don't ring up yet, sir--I've a word ...
The Parrot and the Billy-Goat (Henry Clay Work Poems)
There were no romping children at Doctor Quibble's door;Long past the silver wedding, no toys lay on the floor,But to ...
The Men Who Sleep With Danger (Henry Lawson Poems)
The men who camp with DangerAre mostly quiet men:And one may use a rifle,And one may use a pen,And one ...
I Am An Atheist Who Says His Prayers (Karl Shapiro Poems)
I am an atheist who says his prayers.I am an anarchist, and a full professor at that. I take the ...
In Response (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Breakfast at the Century Club, New York, May, 1879.SUCH kindness! the scowl of a cynic would soften,His pulse beat its ...
The Minneapolis Poem (James Wright Poems)
to John Logan 1I wonder how many old men last winterHungry and frightened by namelessness prowledThe Mississippi shoreLashed blind by the ...
To A Revolutionar (Maxwell Bodenheim Poems)
Violets peer out in streaksOn the covered ribsOf hills, and meet the airIn a million tremblingLips on fields throughout the ...
At a Pantomime. By a Bilious One (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
An Actor sits in doubtful gloom,His stock-in-trade unfurled,In a damp funereal dressing-roomIn the Theatre Royal, World.He comes to town at ...
Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation] (Alexander Pope Poems)
As some fond virgin, whom her mother's careDrags from the town to wholesome country air,Just when she learns to roll ...
Presidential (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
Carmina tum melius, cum venerit IPSE canemus.VIRG. Bucolica, Ecl. ix.CASTLE GARDEN was splendid one night- though the wetPut off for ...
A Child’s Guide to Etiquette (Chris Forhan Poems)
Never put your personal spoon in the common jelly bowl.Spread your napkin upon your lap. Do not grasp.Eat what meat ...
Birchbrook Mill (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A NOTELESS stream, the Birchbrook runsBeneath its leaning trees;That low, soft ripple is its own,That dull roar is the sea's.Of ...
The Wife’s Appeal (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I'M thinking, Charles, 't is just a year,Or will be, very soon,Since first you told me of your love,One glorious ...
An Ember Picture (James Russell Lowell Poems)
How strange are the freaks of memory! The lessons of life we forget,While a trifle, a trick of color, In the wonderful ...
Fitz-Greene Halleck (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE.Among their graven shapes to whomThy civic wreaths belong,O city of his love, make roomFor ...
The Red Box at Vesey Street (Henry Cuyler Bunner Poems)
Past the Red Box at Vesey streetSwing two strong tides of hurrying feet,And up and down and all the dayRises ...
A Welsh Testament (Ronald Stuart Thomas Poems)
All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter?I spoke a tongue that was passed onTo me in the place I ...
A Welsh Testament (R S Thomas Poems)
All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter?I spoke a tongue that was passed onTo me in the place I ...