The Ballad of St. Barbara (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
When the long grey lines came flooding upon Paris in the plain,We stood and drank of the last free air ...
World Poems (14731 Poems)
The Dog Guard: An Australian Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
There are lonesome places upon the earthThat have never re-echoed a sound of mirth,Where the spirits abide that feast and ...
Sunset (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
I KNOW you are not cruel, And you would not willingly hurt anything in the world. There is kindness in your eyes, There ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book I – Part 05 – Character Of The Atoms (Lucretius Poems)
Bodies, again,Are partly primal germs of things, and partlyUnions deriving from the primal germs.And those which are the primal germs ...
Concerning The End Of The World (Rees Prichard Poems)
ALL mortals fain the time wou'd knowWhen Christ shall judge the world below ;But better 'tis they shou'd prepare,Ere they ...
Book I – Part 05 – Character Of The Atoms (Lucretius Poems)
Bodies, again,Are partly primal germs of things, and partlyUnions deriving from the primal germs.And those which are the primal germs ...
The Phantom And The Dreamer (Patience Worth Poems)
Phantom:Thick stands the hill in garb of fir,And winter-stripped the branching shrub.Cold grey the sky, and glistered o'erWith star-dust pulsing ...
A Story Of Doom: Book IV. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Now while these evil ones took counsel strange,The son of Lamech journeyed home; and, lo!A company came down, and struck ...
Epilogue To Lessing’s Laocooen (Matthew Arnold Poems)
One morn as through Hyde Park we walk'd,My friend and I, by chance we talk'dOf Lessing's famed Laocooen;And after we awhile ...
A Lament (Philip Bourke Marston Poems)
My friend has left me, he has gone away;Before his time-so long before-he went.Bright was the dawn of his unended ...
The Old Fisherman (Matilda Betham Poems)
'My bosom is chill'd with the cold, My limbs their lost vigour deplore! Alas! to the lonely and old, Hope warbles her promise ...
Adam’s Race (Rees Prichard Poems)
ADAM and EVE's unhappy, sinful, Race,Late heirs apparent of the fiery lake,To you, great joy is come — your sorrows ...
Lepanto (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun,And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;There is laughter ...
An Epistle To Sir John Blount City: London (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Wonder not Blount, whose magick HandLifts to the Clouds thy native Land,That in these busy, golden Times,Thy Ears are teaz'd ...
Christ’s Triumph after Death (excerpts) (Giles Fletcher Jr Poems)
IBut now the second Morning, from her bow'r,Began to glister in her beams, and nowThe roses of the day began ...
The Poet (Mark Akenside Poems)
-A RhapsodyOf all the various lots around the ball,Which fate to man distributes, absolute;Avert, ye gods! that of the Muse's ...
The Decree Of Odin (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"'I loosened the bonds which bindThe Pestilence, my slave;I sent him forth as the wind,I bade him stand in the ...
Proem to American Song (Paul Engle Poems)
BLOW, LONG TRADE WINDS of American speech,Over this land where we can rise, unfurlOur new and untried sails, and drive ...
King’s Quire (James Stewart Poems)
Bewailing in my chamber thus allone, Despeir{.e}d of all joye and remedye,For-tirit of my thoght, and wo begone, Unto the wyndow gan ...
Mr. Hosea Biglow To The Editor Of The Atlantic Monthly (James Russell Lowell Poems)
DEAR SIR,--Your letter come to han' Requestin' me to please be funny;But I ain't made upon a plan Thet knows wut's comin', ...
The King And The Abbot. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
From the German of Buerger.Ich will euch erzaehlen ein Maerchen gar schnurrig; u.s.w.PRAY, listen, good friends, and I'll tell you ...
A Short Discourse on Eternity (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
What Mortal man can with his Span mete out Eternity?Or fathom it by depth of Wit, or strength of Memory?The ...
Nature, For Nature’s Sake (Jean Ingelow Poems)
White as white butterflies that each one dons Her face their wide white wings to shade withal,Many moon-daisies throng the water-spring. While ...
August (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
In Memoriam A.H. (Maurice Baring Poems)
The wind had blown away the rainThat all day long had soaked the level plain.Against the horizon's fiery wrack,The sheds ...
1946-47 (Jibanananda Das Poems)
There's a rather indistinct human anxiety all around in the day's light:on streets, in alleys, on tram line tracks and ...
The Sundays Of Satin-Legs Smith (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Inamoratas, with an approbation,Bestowed his title. Blessed his inclination.He wakes, unwinds, elaborately: a catTawny, reluctant, royal. He is fatAnd fine ...
A Pastorall Aeglogue – Upon The Death Of Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight, etc. (Lodowick Bryskett Poems)
Lycon. — Colin.Lycon.Colin, well fits thy sad cheare this sad stownd,This wofull stownd, wherein all things complaineThis greate mishap, this ...
The Crystal Lithium (James Schuyler Poems)
The smell of snow, stinging in nostrils as the wind lifts it from a beachEve-shuttering, mixed with sand, or when ...
Elegy On Newstead Abbey (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
'It is the voice of years that are gone!they roll before me with all their deeds.'~OSSIANNewstead! fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! ...