All Poems
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A Place At The Top
© Edgar Albert Guest
THERE'S a place for you at the top, my boy,
Are you willing to try to get it?
France
© Rudyard Kipling
Broke to every known mischance, lifted over all
By the light sane joy of life, the buckler of the Gaul,
Furious in luxury, merciless in toil,
Terrible with strength that draws from her tireless soil;
Cloud Pictures
© Paul Hamilton Hayne
Here in these mellow grasses, the whole morn,
I love to rest; yonder, the ripening corn
Rustles its greenery; and his blithesome horn
The Sphinx
© James Whitcomb Riley
I know all about the Sphinx--
I know even what she thinks,
Staring with her stony eyes
Up forever at the skies.
Slow Movement
© William Carlos Williams
All those treasures that lie in the little bolted box whose tiny space is
Mightier than the room of the stars, being secret and filled with dreams:
To ****
© Fitz-Greene Halleck
THE world is bright before thee,
Its summer flowers are thine,
Its calm blue sky is o'er thee,
Thy bosom Pleasure's shrine;
The Bloody fields of Wheogo
© Anonymous
The moon rides high in a starry sky,
And, through the midnight gloom,
I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed
© Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Book Of Suleika - The Sublime Type
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
THE sun, whom Grecians Helms call,
His heavenly path with pride doth tread,
Last Love [Canzone]
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Love hath a chamber all of imagery;
And there is one dim nook,
A little storied web wherein my heart
From leaf to leaf is read as in a book.
A Vision Of The Argonauts
© Richard Monckton Milnes
It is a privilege of great price to walk
With that old sorcerer Fable, hand in hand,
Adown the shadowy vale of History:
There is no other wand potent as his,
A Cattleman's Prayer
© Anonymous
Now O Lord please lend thine ear,
The prayer of the Cattleman to hear;
No doubt many prayers to thee seem strange,
But won't you bless this cattle range?
Dantis Tenebrae (In Memory of my Father)
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
AND didst thou know indeed, when at the font
Together with thy name thou gav'st me his,
Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends
© John Gay
Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame.
"Advance Come Forth From Thy Tyrolean Ground"
© William Wordsworth
ADVANCE-come forth from thy Tyrolean ground,
Dear Liberty! stern Nymph of soul untamed;
Remembering Golden Bells
© Bai Juyi
Ruined and illa man of two score;
Pretty and guilelessa girl of three.
