The Iliad: Book 1 (Homer Poems)
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that broughtcountless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul ...
Performance Poems (31 Poems)
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter VI. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
An Exhortation to all that are out of Christ; in order to their closing the match with him: containing also ...
Notes On Vision (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
Look where we worship. We all live in the city.The city forms- often physically, but inevitablypsychically- a circle. A Game. ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book IV – Part 04 – Some Vital Functions (Lucretius Poems)
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear ...
Book IV – Part 04 – Some Vital Functions (Lucretius Poems)
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear ...
The Cloud Messenger – Part 04 (Kalidasa Poems)
The slender young woman who is there would be the premier creation by theCreator in the sphere of women, with ...
The Sundays Of Satin-Legs Smith (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Inamoratas, with an approbation,Bestowed his title. Blessed his inclination.He wakes, unwinds, elaborately: a catTawny, reluctant, royal. He is fatAnd fine ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Infinitenes (Ralph Knevet Poems)
(Lord) Hee, who goes about to find Thy pow'r, and bounds would to it sett, As soone may manacle the winde, Or aire ...
Glory (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted namesAnd legends into verses for the chorus to sing:Names recalled now only in the ...
The Department of Fulfilment (Raymond Queneau Poems)
There was never any doubtthat his oratorio would start the world ablaze,uncover rank emotions in all who heard.Those who sang ...
Book Contents: Moods Of Ginger Mick (C J Dennis Poems)
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
Distress: A Poetical Essay (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
To the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of Radnor.Per varios casus per tot discrimina rerumTendimus ——— VirgilThis Essay was wrote soon ...
Appendix: Containing The Author’s Conversation With His Bookseller, &c. (Christopher Anstey Poems)
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
To A Contemporary (Carl Sandburg Poems)
You come along. . . tearing your shirt. . . yelling about Jesus. Where do you ...
An Important Revelation (C J Dennis Poems)
MISTER EDITOR: I'm craving of your space a slice, or shaving - (And it's very precious space, I've always found) ...
Conducted Tour (C J Dennis Poems)
Walk up! Walk up to the Bureaucratic Fair!All the tasters and the testers and the tallymen are there. All the ...
Definitions (C J Dennis Poems)
We have heard it. Oft we heard it long before we came of age.In whatever fields we practise, art whatever ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Lines (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Spoken by Miss Ada Rehan at the Lyceum Theatre, July 23, 1890, at a performance on behalf of Lady Jeune's ...
As if in Dressage (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The canter of the deer out in the bare wood reminding me of the pictures on the TV The bright ...
Visitation (Mark Doty Poem)
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
Melancholetta (Lewis Carroll Poem)
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
Hymn 60 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The Virgin Mary's song. Luke 1:46ff. Our souls shall magnify the Lord, In God the Savior we rejoice: While we ...
The Play (Anne Sexton Poems)
I am the only actor. It is difficult for one woman to act out a whole play. The play is ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...
The Initiate (Charles Simic Poems)
St. John of the Cross wore dark glasses As he passed me on the street. St. Theresa of Avila, beautiful ...
To a Contemporary Bunkshooter (Carl Sandburg Poems)
YOU come along. . . tearing your shirt. . . yelling about Jesus. Where do you get that stuff? What ...
On Hearing Of A Death (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
We lack all knowledge of this parting. Death does not deal with us. We have no reason to show death ...
Rembrandt to Rembrandt (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...