‘Twas Ever Thus (Abner Cosens Poems)
O preacher, prophet, martyr, sage, Whose message falls on heedless ears, Bethink that unrepentant age ...
Prophets & Prophecies Poems (1154 Poems)
A Politician (Donald Marquis Poems)
LEADER no more, be judged of us! Hailed Chief, and loved, of yore -- Youth, and the faith of youth, ...
Aeneas At Washington (Allen Tate Poems)
I myself saw furious with bloodNeoptolemus, at his side the black Atridae,Hecuba and the hundred daughters, PriamCut down, his filth ...
Paradise (Edward Powys Mathers Poems)
Love Ballad of Kurdistan.Paradise, my darling, know that paradise,The Prophet-given paradise after death,Is far and very mysterious and most high;My ...
An April Songster (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I hear the lark to-day; he sings Against a hazy April cloud—The glorious little soul with wings! Who sings so ...
El Extraviado (Alan Seeger Poems)
Over the radiant ridges borne out on the offshore wind, I have sailed as a butterfly sails whose priming wings ...
Broken Wings (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
GRAY-HEADED POETS, whom the full years blessWith life and health and chance still multipliedTo hold your forward course - fame ...
The Spirit Of The Press (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Ho! Ye who mourn the serried ranks that mouldOn fens of Flanders, hills of Picardy,Who rail at king or kaiser, ...
Glory (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Glory in winning a maid in the first wild heat of our youth, When heaven comes down to the earth, ...
The Pilgrim and The Knight (Digby Mackworth Dolben Poems)
Here in the flats that encompass the hills called Beautiful, lying,O Beloved, behold a Pilgrim who fain would be sleeping,Did ...
Remembering An Account Executive (Alan Dugan Poems)
He had a back office in his older brother's advertising agency and understood the human asshole. He ...
The Stormy Petrel (Bryan Waller Procter Poems)
A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like ...
July The Fourth (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
As when a little babe is born the parents cannot guessThe story of the future years, their grief or happiness,So ...
On Reading The Controversy Between Lord Byron And Mr Bowles (Barron Field Poems)
WHETHER a ship's poetic? — Bowles would own,If here he dwelt, where Nature is prosaic,Unpicturesque, unmusical, and whereNature-reflecting Art is ...
To England (George Henry Boker Poems)
ILear and Cordelia! 't was an ancient tale Before thy Shakespeare gave it deathless fame: The times have changed, the ...
One Hundred Years (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, Batman, Prophet Batman, a hundred years ago, He looked upon this land and found it good."'Tis the place to ...
The Steam Threshing-Machine (Charles Tennyson Turner Poems)
With the Straw CarrierFlush with the pond the lurid furnace burned At eve, while smoke and vapor filled the yard; ...
Pictura Mathesis (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
Follow the pictured forms that Vandyck drew,One life-wide lesson thou mayst learn;Each happy gift, each perfect work and true,Thou to ...
Win’ That ‘Blaws (George MacDonald Poems)
Win' that blaws the simmer plaidOwer the hie hill's shoothers laid,Green wi' gerse, an' reid wi' heather—Welcome wi' yer sowl-like ...
The Unseen Preacher (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
He spoke of souls that stooped and sinned,Of hearts that turned to roam;He spoke of human restlessness,Of exile and of ...
Invocation to the Spectre of the Air (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poems)
Loved alike by Air and Water Aye must be Thessalia's daughter; To us, Olympian hearts, are given Spells that draw ...
The Condition Of King Seuen’s Flocks (Confucius Poems)
Who dares to say your sheep are few? The flocks are all three hundred strong. Who dares despise your ...
My Heritage (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
I into life so full of love was sentThat all the shadows which fall on the wayOf every human being ...
Of English Verse (Edmund Waller Poems)
Poets may boast, as safely vain,Their works shall with the world remain;Both, bound together, live or die,The verses and the ...
Hope (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Maiden! in whose kindling eye,Burns the fire of prophecy,On whose brow its glories shine,Priestess at the hidden shrine;Tell me what ...
A Song On The End Of The World (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net. Happy porpoises jump ...
The Grasshopper (Anacreon Poems)
Happy insect! what can beIn happiness compar'd to thee?Fed with nourishment divine,The dewy morning's gentle wine!Nature waits upon thee still,And ...
The Grasshopper (Abraham Cowley Poems)
Happy insect, what can beIn happiness compared to thee?Fed with nourishment divine,The dewy morning's gentle wine!Nature waits upon thee still,And ...
Ode To Fear (Allen Tate Poems)
Variation on a Theme by CollinsLet the day glare: O memory, your treadBeats to the pulse of suffocating night-Night peering ...
A Song For Christmas (George MacDonald Poems)
I.Hark, in the steeple the dull bell swingingOver the furrows ill ploughed by Death!Hark the bird-babble, the loud lark singing!Hark, ...