A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen (William Cowper Poems)
Dear Anna, -- Between friend and friend,Prose answers every common end;Serves, in a plain and homely way,To express the occurrence ...
Writing Poems (332 Poems)
At The “Atlantic” Dinner (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
DECEMBER 15, 1874I SUPPOSE it's myself that you're making allusion toAnd bringing the sense of dismay and confusion to.Of course ...
The Gulf of All Human Possessions (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Come hither, and behold the fruits,Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits.Take wise advice, and look behind,Bring all past actions ...
The Origin Of Didactic Poetry (James Russell Lowell Poems)
When wise Minerva still was young And just the least romantic,Soon after from Jove's head she flung That preternatural antic,'Tis said, to ...
Epilogue To The Breakfast-Table Series (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AUTOCRAT-PROFESSOR-POETAT A BOOKSTOREAnno Domini 1972A CRAZY bookcase, placed beforeA low-price dealer's open door;Therein arrayed in broken rowsA ragged crew of ...
Letter, The (Charlotte Bront Poems)
What is she writing? Watch her now,How fast her fingers move !How eagerly her youthful browIs bent in thought above ...
The Labour Agitator (Henry Lawson Poems)
LET the liar call me liar, And the robber call me thief.They can only fan the fire That is born of my ...
Marthy Virginia’s Hand (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
"There, on the left!" said the colonel: the battlehad shuddered and faded away,Wraith of a fiery enchantment that left onlyashes ...
Verses Sent To Mrs. Baillie On Her Birthday, 1813 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
A JUDGEMENT clear, a pensive mindWith feelings tender and refined;A generous heart in kindness glowing,An open hand on all bestowing;A ...
The Departure. AN ELEGY. (Henry King Poems)
VVere I to leave no more then a good friend,Or but to hear the summons to my end,(Which I have ...
A Letter From A Stupid Woman (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
(A Letter to a Man)(1)My dear Master,This is a letter from a stupid womanHas a stupid woman before me, written ...
The Unknown God (Henry Lawson Poems)
The President to Kingdoms, As in the Days of Old;The King to the Republic, As it had been foretold.They could not read ...
Written Afterwards (Henry Lawson Poems)
So the days of my tramping are over, And the days of my riding are done-I'm about as content as a ...
Since I’ve Been In Jail (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
Since I've been in jailthe world has turned around the sun ten timesAnd if you ask the earth, it will ...
Eve Of St. Agony Or The Middleclass Was Sitting On Its Fat (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
Man-dirt and stomachs that the sea unloads; rocketsof quick lice crawling inland, planting their damn flags,putting their malethings in any ...
Naples – 1860 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I GIVE thee joy!-I know to thee The dearest spot on earth must beWhere sleeps thy loved one by the summer ...
Poor Tom (John Wolcot Poems)
Now the rage of Battle ended And the French for mercy call;Death no more in smoke and thunder Rode upon the vengeful ...
A Letter (Anne Barbara Ridler Poems)
Lying in bed this morning, just a yearSince our first days, I was trying to assess --Against my natural caution ...
A Newyeeres gift to a Gentlewoman (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
If pure goodwill, not meaning ill, might boldly, might boldly, Presume to tell his minde:I wold not vse, in terms diffuse, ...
Collected Poems (1994) (Anne Barbara Ridler Poems)
Lying in bed this morning, just a yearSince our first days, I was trying to assess -Against my natural caution ...
My Mother’s Love (Jared Barhite Poems)
Nine months after writing this poem, my mother died, Dec. 21st, 1894. My vision eye beholds a form, Bent low by years ...
S (Alfred Comyn Lyall Poems)
<i>Mors Janua Vitae.</i>I am the God of the sensuous fireThat moulds all Nature in forms divine;The symbols of death and ...
The Woman From The Archive (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
a woman of indeterminate agein the fading lighthands folded on her lapthose same daysthose same facesa current carriedon and onhair ...
The British Military Cemetery at Sebastopol (Konstantin Simonov Poems)
No holly bush is here; no ancient yew tree;Strange stones embedded in the salt marsh stand,And rusted by the sun, ...
Naples (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
INSCRIBED TO ROBERT C. WATERSTON, OF BOSTON.Fold her, O Father, in Thine arms, And let her henceforth be A messenger of love ...
Progne’s Dream (John Armstrong Poems)
Darkly expressive of some past Events that were soon to be revealed to her.Last night I dreamt,Whate'er it may forebode ...
But What’s The Use (Henry Lawson Poems)
But what's the use of writing 'bush'- Though editors demand it-For city folk, and farming folk, Can never understand it.They're blind to ...
“A Noted Traveler” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Even in such a scene of senseless playThe children were surprised one summer-dayBy a strange man who called across the ...
In Re a Gentleman One (Andrew Barton Paterson (‘Banjo’) Poems)
We see it each day in the paper,And know that there's mischief in store;That some unprofessional caperHas landed a shark ...
We Are Many (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,I cannot settle on a single one.They are lost to me ...