Song of the Universal. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
Redemption & Salvation Poems (540 Poems)
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1 (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment C (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment A (Christopher Smart Poems)
Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every ...
Hymn Of Man (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
Mater Triumphalis (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
The Count Of Hapsburg (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
At Aix-la-Chapelle, in imperial array, In its halls renowned in old story, At the coronation banquet so gay King Rudolf ...
Land Mine (Robert William Service Poems)
A grey gull hovered overhead, Then wisely flew away. 'In half a jiffy you'll be dead,' I thought I heard ...
Repentance (Robert William Service Poems)
"If you repent," the Parson said," Your sins will be forgiven. Aye, even on your dying bed You're not too ...
Cows (Robert William Service Poems)
I love to watch my seven cows In meads of buttercups abrowse, With guilded knees; But even more I love ...
The Trust (Robert William Service Poems)
Because I've eighty years and odd, And darkling is my day, I now prepare to meet my God, And for ...
Washerwoman (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE WASHERWOMAN is a member of the Salvation Army. And over the tub of suds rubbing underwear clean She sings ...
Conviction (i) (Stevie Smith Poems)
Christ died for God and me Upon the crucifixion tree For God a spoken Word For me a Sword For ...
When I Met My Muse (William Stafford Poems)
I glanced at her and took my glasses off--they were still singing. They buzzed like a locust on the coffee ...
I WILL NOT EAT MY POEM (Jerome Rothenberg Poems)
I kill for pleasure not for gain. A man much more than you my hands find knives & flash them. ...
Tasker Norcross (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
Rahel to Varnhagen (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
His Pilgrimage (Sir Walter Raleigh Poems)
GIVE me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My ...
I have fallen into unconsciousness (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utter unconsciousness how joyful I ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
The Three Enemies (Christina Rossetti Poems)
THE FLESH "Sweet, thou art pale." "More pale to see, Christ hung upon the cruel tree And bore His Father's ...
The Incantation (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Scene: Federal Political Arena A darkened cave. In the middle, a cauldron, boiling. Enter the three witches. 1ST WITCH: Thrice ...
Dedication (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed ...
Conversation with Jeanne (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Psalm 85 (John Milton Poems)
Thy Land to favour graciously Thou hast not Lord been slack, Thou hast from hard Captivity Returned Jacob back. Th' ...