A Gallop of Fire (Marie E J Pitt Poems)
When the north wind moans thro' the blind creek coursesAnd revels with harsh, hot sand,I loose the horses, the wild ...
Silence Poems (3554 Poems)
Niggers Leap, New England (Judith Wright Poems)
The eastward spurs tip backward from the sun.Nights runs an obscure tide round cape and bayand beats with boats of ...
Midnight (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
THERE are sea and sky about me, And yet nothing sense can mark;For a mist fills all the midnight Adding blindness to ...
In the Next Street (Ken Smith Poems)
there's only ever one argument: his,bawling out whoever punctuatesthe brief intervals his cussinginterrupts, something unheard, reason perhaps.What you never get ...
Music (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Thou, oh, thou!Thou of the chorded shell and golden plectrum! thouOf the dark eyes and pale pacific brow!Music, who by ...
The Lost Army (Margery Lawrence Poems)
Singing and shouting they swept to the treacherous forestDarkness and silence received them and smother their painDarkness and silence and ...
“He Said, Don’t Sleep” (Rabbi Adonim Halevi Poems)
He said, "Don't sleep. Drink old winewith myrrh and lilies, henna and aloes,in an orchard of pomegranates, palm, and vinesfull ...
The Fallen Pine-Cone (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I LIFT thee, thus, thou brown and rugged cone,Well poised and high,Between the flowering grasses and the sky;And, as sea-voices ...
Apple-Blossoms (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
LET men remember, when they pray,The rose and silver dawns of May,Most palely, spiritually gray;The sky above the blossomed trees,Pale ...
The Caffer Commando (Thomas Pringle Poems)
Hark! -- heard ye the signals of triumph afar?'Tis our Caffer Commando returning from war:The voice of their laughter comes ...
Silence (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
Why should I sing of earth or heaven? not rather rest,Powerless to speak of that which hath my soul possessed,—For ...
In The Lane (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock,And the brown bee drones i' the rose;And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,And ...
My Life (Joe Wenderoth Poems)
after Henri MichauxSomehow it got into my room.I found it, and it was, naturally, trapped.It was nothing more than a ...
Goods Train At Night (Kenneth Herbert Ashley Poems)
The station is empty and desolate;A sick lamp wanly glows;Slowly puffs a goods engine,Slow yet alive with great energy;Drawing rumbling ...
Rocking The baby (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
I hear her rocking the baby-- Her room is just next to mine--And I fancy I feel the dimpled arms That round ...
Port Of Aerial Embarkation (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
There is no widening distance at the shore-The sea revolving slowly from the piers-But the one border of our take-off ...
The Color Bearer’s Last Words (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
No longer fire streams from the ranks of the foeman -Their broken battalions have fled in dismayThe cannons hoarse thunders ...
A Corn-Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
ON the wide veranda white,In the purple failing light,Sits the master while the sun is lowly burning;And his dreamy thoughts ...
Song II (Matilda Betham Poems)
SET TO MUSIC BY MR. VOIGHT. What do I love? A polish'd mind, A temper cheerful, meek, and kind; A graceful air, unsway'd ...
Twilight (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.HOW sweet the silence of the twilight hour,When the still zephyr softly breathes around,When Contemplation, in her fav'rite bower,Sooths the ...
Contrasted Songs: Song Of The Going Away (Jean Ingelow Poems)
“Old man, upon the green hillside, With yellow flowers besprinkled o’er,How long in silence wilt thou bide At this low stone door?“I ...
The Change (John Newton Poems)
Saviour shine and cheer my soul,Bid my dying hopes revive;Make my wounded spirit whole,Far away the tempter drive:Speak the word ...
Annalena (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face, since the hands, face and tears of ...
Lines Written in a Highland Glen (John Wilson Poems)
To whom belongs this valley fair,That sleeps beneath the filmy air,Even like a living thing?Silent,-as infant at the breast,-Save a ...
A Belgian Christmas (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The "happy year" of 1914AN hour from dawn:The snow sweeps onAs it swept with sleet last night:The Earth aroundBreathes never ...
Entangled (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I STOOD as one enchanted, All in the forest deep:As one that wond'ring wanders, Dream-bound within his sleep.A thousand rustling footsteps Pattered upon ...
Upon Watts’ Picture “Sic Transit” (John McCrae Poems)
"What I spent I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have."But yesterday the tourney, all the ...
“When lately I mus’d on the days that are fled” (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
When lately I mus'd on the days that are fled,And dwelt on the friendships that now are no more,When I ...
The Day’s March (Robert Nichols Poems)
The battery grides and jingles,Mile succeeds to mile;Shaking the noonday sunshineThe guns lunge out awhile,And then are still awhile.We amble ...
About The State of Struggling (Nichita Stanescu Poems)
As though the superior knifehad cut my clouds from the mountain topsdoes my immense and headless body hurl itself about,leaving ...