“We went out of our minds with the easy life” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
We went out of our minds with the easy life,Wine from morning on, hungover by evening,How can I keep this ...
Speech Poems (1322 Poems)
In Memory (Lionel Pigot Johnson Poems)
Ah! fair face gone from sight,With all its lightOf eyes that pierced the deep!Oh human night!Ah! fair face calm in ...
A Lecture (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
Now I was gwine ter make er speech;I see yer al begin to frown;Dat what I say erbout yer darkies,Yer ...
Changed Voices (William Watson Poems)
Last night the seawind was to meA metaphor of liberty,And every wave along the beachA starlit music seemed to be.To-day ...
Misconstruction (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HOW man misjudges man! the outward seeming,Gesture, or glance, or utterance that may jarAgainst some petty, pampered, poor conceit,Unworthy, undefined, ...
Failure of Communion (Judith Wright Poems)
What is the space between,enclosing us in oneunited person, yetdividing each alone.Frail bridges cross from eyeto eye, from flesh to ...
On Teaching The Young (Yvor Winters Poems)
The young are quick of speech.Grown middle-aged, I teachCorrosion and distrust,Exacting what I must.A poem is what standsWhen imperceptive hands,Feeling, ...
Reality (Rabia al Basri Poems)
In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.The one who ...
To a Painting of Echo (AM Juster Poems)
Foolish artist, why must you sketch my faceAnd hound a goddess eyes cannot detect?I am the daughter born of Speech ...
Decima (George Santayana Poems)
Silent daisies out of reach,Maidens of the starry grass,Gazing on me as I passWith a look too wise for speech,Teach ...
Horatio Nelson Powers (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
1826-1890Death hath no power o'er such as he;The fulness of the life to beShone round him in the life he ...
“Out Of Reach?” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
You think them "out of reach," your dead? Nay, by my own dead, I denyYour "out of reach."--Be comforted:'Tis not so ...
The Russian Tongue (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, thoualone art my stay and support, mighty, ...
XIII: Pentacost (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Discord—the curse of Babel—done,The world, divided, hears as oneAll hearts revealing each to each,The new-found harmony of speech.And there appeared ...
For A Trafalgar Cenotaph (Sir Henry Newbolt Poems)
Lover of England, stand awhile and gazeWith thankful heart, and lips refrained from praise;They rest beyond the speech of human ...
Silence (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
'T is better to sit here beside the sea, Here on the spray-kissed beach, In silence, that between such friends as we Is ...
For The Fatherland (Orhan Veli Kanik Poems)
What have we not done for this our fatherland!Some of us have died;Some of us have made speeches. (Orhan Veli ...
Somnium Mystici (George MacDonald Poems)
A Microcosm In Terza RimaI.Quiet I lay at last, and knew no moreWhether I breathed or not, so worn I ...
Their Story Runneth Thus (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Two little children played among the flowers,Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;The children's ages were the very sameE'en ...
The History Of Job, A Sacred Poem. The Second Book. (Daniel Baker Poems)
Again th' Almighty mounts his lofty Throne, And on his Right Hand sate th' Eternal Son. The Royal Writs were ...
Saville In Trouble (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Sing muse! of Saville and the direful dayWhen beauty fell, to ruthless hands a prey;And life a sacrifice to savage ...
The Light of Asia: Book the Seventh (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Sorrowful dwelt the King Suddh?danaAll those long years among the S?kya LordsLacking the speech and presence of his Son;Sorrowful sate ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
Tale VI (George Crabbe Poems)
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire,Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,Who ...
The Lost Child. Canto I. (George Jehoshaphat Mountain Poems)
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
The Dance Of The Seven Sins (Arthur Symons Poems)
THE BODY Call in the dancers. THE SOUL All is vain. We live, and living is the pain We die ...
Tale XVI (George Crabbe Poems)
THE CONFIDANT.Anna was young and lovely--in her eyeThe glance of beauty, in her cheek the dye:Her shape was slender, and ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto II (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
The Mirror for Magistrates: (Earl of Dorset Thomas Sackville Poems)
, The wrathful winter, 'proaching on apace, With blustering blasts had all ybar'd the treen, And old Saturnus, ...
The Church-Porch. Perirrhanterium (George Herbert Poems)
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...