Poem About My Rights (June Jordan Poems)
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clearmy head about this poem about why I can'tgo out ...
Poetry Poems (1966 Poems)
October (May Swenson Poems)
1A smudge for the horizonthat, on a clear day, showsthe hard edge of hills andbuildings on the other coast.Anchored boats ...
To A Lady Who Commanded Me To Send Her An Account In Verse (Mary Barber Poems)
How I succeed, you kindly ask;Yet set me on a grievous Task,When you oblige me to rehearse,The Censures past upon ...
To Victor Daley (Henry Lawson Poems)
I THOUGHT that silence would be best, But I a call have heard,And, Victor, after all the rest, I well might say ...
The Tri-Portrait (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
'Twas a rich night in June. The air was all Fragrance and balm, and the wet leaves were stirred By the soft ...
The Pacification. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Nick Dapper, and the great De---l------ne,Against whom Nick so oft has drawnHis hostile Pen, one Night last WeekMet at the ...
Idleness (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune Fitfully on the skylight, and the shade Of the fast flying clouds across my ...
Bacchanalia or The New Age (Matthew Arnold Poems)
IThe evening comes, the fields are still.The tinkle of the thirsty rill,Unheard all day, ascends again;Deserted is the half-mown plain,Silent ...
Ayin Nedivah (‘Generous Eye’): Qasida for Solomon Ibn Ghiyyat (Yehudah HaLevi Poems)
I can't stop crying.My eyes are like peddler women.What they buy is: you are gone.What they sell is: tears,And business ...
Alice And The White Knight (Lewis Carroll Poems)
Alice was walking beside the White Knight in Looking Glass Land."You are sad." the Knight said in an anxious tone: ...
How A Cat Was Annoyed And A Poet Was Booted (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A poet had a cat. There is nothing odd in that- (I might make a little pun about the Mews!) But what is ...
An Explanation of America: A Love of Death (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Imagine a child from Virginia or New HampshireAlone on the prairie eighty years agoOr more, one afternoon-the shaggy peltOf grasses, ...
Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford to hasten Him into the Country (Thomas Randolph Poems)
COME, spur away, I have no patience for a longer stay, But must go down And leave the chargeable noise of this great ...
It Is Great To Be Alive (Harry Hooton Poems)
This is an obvious imitation of Walt Whitman, is it?Well, and wouldn't that be better than another in sickly rime?Perhaps ...
Erin, Mavourneen (Nora Pembroke Poems)
A Prize Poem.I know Canada is fair to see, and pleasant; it is wellOn the banks of its broad river ...
Hunting Of The Snark: Preface (Lewis Carroll Poems)
PREFACE If—-and the thing is wildly possible—-t he charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive ...
Narrara Creek (Henry Kendall Poems)
From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms,Leaps wild the white torrent from chasms to chasms-From the home ...
An Epistle To Lady Bowyer (Mary Jones Poems)
How much of paper's spoil d what floods of ink!And yet how few how very few can think!The knack of ...
Stanzas From The Fledgling Bard And The Poetry Societry (George Reginald Margetson Poems)
_Part I_I'm out to find the new, the modern school,Where Science trains the fledgling bard to fly,Where critics teach the ...
Science, the Iconoclast (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
"Oh! spare dual idols of the past, Whose lips are dumb, whose eyes are dim; Truth's diadem is not for himWho comes, ...
The Vote of Thanks Debate (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
Extracts From Verses Written For The New-Year,1823 (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
WHERE streams of light, in golden showers,First fell on long lost Eden's bowers,And music, from the shouting skies,Wandered to Eve's ...
An Urban Convalescence (James Merrill Poems)
Out for a walk, after a week in bed,I find them tearing up part of my blockAnd, chilled through, dazed ...
From Living Waters (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
COMMENCEMENT POEM, WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, JUNE, 1876."INTO the balm of the clover,Into the dawn and the dew,Come, ...
In The Harbour: Elegiac Verse (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
I.Peradventure of old, some bard in Ionian Islands, Walking alone by the sea, hearing the wash of the waves,Learned the secret ...
Recollections Of “Lalla Rookh” (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WHEN we were farm boys, years ago,I dare not tell how many,When, strange to say, the fairest dayWas often dark ...
At The “Atlantic” Dinner (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
DECEMBER 15, 1874I SUPPOSE it's myself that you're making allusion toAnd bringing the sense of dismay and confusion to.Of course ...
The Orphan’s Dream Of fame (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
I LEARNED within myself to live. I saw,E'en in my childhood, that the heart's bright budsWithered and faded at the ...
Remembrance of Things Future (Henri Coulette Poems)
I. You arrive in a new town.Your suitcase yawns. Your troublesUnpack themselves and dress up.A night on the town! Poor town.The ...