All Poems
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Niobe
© Alfred Noyes
How like the sky she bends above her child,
One with the great horizon of her pain!
A New Years Gift For Bec
© Jonathan Swift
Returning Janus now prepares,
For Bec, a new supply of cares,
Sent in a bag to Dr. Swift,
Who thus displays the new-year's gift.
The Wood Far Inland
© Paul Hamilton Hayne
I CLOSE mine eyes in this lone inland place,
This wood, far inland, thronged with sombrous trees--
Our southland pines--in whose dark boughs the breeze
Mourns like a spirit shorn of joy and grace;
Annunciation
© Muriel Stuart
When to your virgin heart, unstirred, ungiven,
Upon the quiet mountainside untrod,
The sudden naked fire came down from heaven,
Burning you with the very breath of God,
Gorgon or the Wonderful Year
© Gabriel Harvey
|S+t+| Fame dispos'd to cunnycatch the world,
Vproar'd a wonderment of Eighty Eight:
The Earth addreading to be ouerwhurld,
What now auailes, quoth She, my ballance weight ?
The Circle smyl'd to see the Center feare :
The wonder was, no wonder fell that yeare.
The Phoenix
© George Darley
O Blest unfabled Incense Tree,
That burns in glorious Araby,
With red scent chalicing the air,
Till earth-life grow Elysian there!
When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich
© Vachel Lindsay
He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour
Just to invent a fancy style
To spread the celebration paint
So it would show at least a mile.
An Address to the Steam Washing Company and Letter of Remonstrance from Bridget Jones to the Nobleme
© Thomas Hood
An Address to the Steam Washing Company
"For shamelet the linen alone!" M. W. of Windsor.
Mr. ScrubMr. Slopor whoever you be!
The Encyclopaedia
© Vachel Lindsay
"If I could set the moon upon
This table," said my friend,
"Among the standard poets
And brouchures without end,
