A Camp In The Prussian Forest (Randall Jarrell Poems)
I walk beside the prisoners to the road.Load on puffed load,Their corpses, stacked like sodden wood,Lie barred or galled with ...
Sign & Symbol Poems (2284 Poems)
Into The Country Of The Gadarenes (AM Juster Poems)
Arthritic fingers of the olive treesAccuse the sun of ancient injuries.The shallows harden to an ochre crustWhile bony cattle huddle ...
Rhymes For The Times: I: 1865 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
This while I've been ettlin' to string a wheen rhymes,Being unco sair fash'd at the signs o' the times—The mony ...
Landing on the Moon (May Swenson Poems)
When in the mask of night there shone that cut,we were riddled. A probe reached downand stroked some nerve in ...
War In The North (Michael Earls Poems)
Not from Mars and not from ThorComes the war, the welcome war,Many months we waited forTo free us from the ...
Roses Only (Marianne Moore Poems)
You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather thanan asset - that in view of the fact ...
To John Forbes, Esq. (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
ON HIS BRINGING ME FLOWERS FROM VAUCLUSE, ANDWHICH HE HAD PRESERVED BY MEANS OFAN INGENIOUS PROCESS IN THEIRORIGINAL BEAUTY. SWEET spoils ...
Come Sign The Vow! (John Pierpont Poems)
Come, sign the Temperance pledge,Thou on life's tottering edge,Come sign the vow!What though thy hair be gray,Languid thy pulses play,Give ...
Canadians (Ivor Gurney Poems)
We marched, and saw a company of CanadiansTheir coats weighed eighty pounds at least, we saw themFaces infinitely grimed in, ...
Invocation (Herman Melville Poems)
Ha, ha, gods and kings; fill high, one and all;Drink, drink! shout and drink! mad respond to the call!Fill fast, and ...
A Lament (Katharine Tynan Poems)
CLOUDS is under clouds and rainFor there will not come againTwo, the beloved sire and sonWhom all gifts were rained ...
On A Fan (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
CHICKEN-SKIN, delicate, white, Painted by Carlo Vanloo, Loves in a riot of light, Roses and vaporous blue; Hark to the ...
If I Should Pray (Patience Worth Poems)
If I should pray, I thinkThat my prayer should be: "Let my handsNever learn the ending of their task."For if ...
The Proclamation (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
SAINT PATRICK, slave to Milcho of the herdsOf Ballymena, wakened with these words:"Arise, and fleeOut from the land of bondage, ...
1846 (Henry Alford Poems)
Thou child of Man, fall down With contrite heart and low; Inheritor by fleshly birth Of exile, death, and woe. Thou child of Man, ...
A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor’s Fight (Herman Melville Poems)
Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse, More ponderous than nimble;For since grimed War here laid asideHis painted pomp, 'twould ...
Call, The (Rupert Brooke Poems)
Out of the nothingness of sleep,The slow dreams of Eternity,There was a thunder on the deep:I came, because you called ...
The Magellan Clouds (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Written at Midnight during a Storm, on Board the Medway, in theSouth Seas.WHILE the children of Jacob in Goshen remain,They ...
To Sarath A. Ghosh (Patience Worth Poems)
(India)I shall wind a turban of silver cloth,And set upon its brow a circletOf jade and turquoise. Yea, I shall ...
Watching The Crows (Henry Lawson Poems)
A BUSHMAN got lost in a scrub in the North,And all the long morning the searchers went forth.They swore at ...
Creation (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
Creator Spirit uncreatedSails on fleet waves far away,Worlds heave, Lives are generated,His Eye spans Eternity.All inspiriting reigns his Countenance,In its ...
The Red Flag (James Connell Poems)
The people's flag is deepest redIt shrouded oft our martyred deadAnd ere their limbs grew stiff and coldTheir hearts' blood ...
My Lost Friends (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
One by one they have slipped from Earth,And vanished into the depths of space,And I, beside my lonely hearth,Find none ...
Signs (Larry Levis Poems)
All night I dreamed of my home,of the roads that are so longand straight they die in the middle-among the ...
A Dream (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Poems)
I dreamedA dream of you,Not as you seemedWhen you were late unkindAnd blindTo my eyes' pleading for a debt long ...
Trusting Still (John Hartley Poems)
When shall we meet again? One more year passed;One more of grief and pain;-- Maybe the last.Are the years sending us Farther apart?Or ...
The Flag Goes By (Henry Holcomb Bennett Poems)
Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A dash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The ...
The Fiddler (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
The Fiddler saws the strings,His light brown hair he tosses and flings.He carries a sabre at his side,He wears a ...
A Geisha Song (Nora Jane Hopper Chesson Poems)
At the sign of the Beckoning KittenWe geishas dwell;Over our doorway is written"Hail and farewell."Broad is our gateway and litten,Full ...
“I stood at the hedge as a hearse went by” (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
I stood at the hedge as a hearse went byAnd passed me along the way;The sun broke in through a ...